Posted on 12/12/2005 7:34:06 AM PST by LA Woman3
ATLANTA -- Evacuees from New Orleans plan a protest in Atlanta to the city's plan to hold Mardi Gras celebrations in two months.
An angry and raucous crowd of evacuees chastised New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin last week for approving the festival. He told the crowd he actually opposed celebrating the festival but tourism leaders forced his hand.
In Atlanta, a group plans a protest at 2 p.m. Monday on West Peachtree Street ahead of Monday night’s Saints-Falcons game.
Protesters fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras will make agencies trying to help evacuees withdraw their help.
The mayor's comments that he was pressured to approve Mardi Gras plans stunned Carnival supporters in the Big Easy, who say they had been assured the mayor was OK with the event.
Ed Muniz is the captain of Endymion, one of the city’s most glamorous parades. He compares Nagin to Sen. John Kerry because Nagin first said he was for something and then against it.
A number of evacuees stuck in hotel rooms and unfamiliar surroundings across the U.S. oppose the celebration. They say they are in no mood to party.
And they fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter will cause some agencies trying to help evacuees to withdraw their help.
*ping*
And the really sad part is that Nagin will be re-elected in a landslide.....even if someone runs against him but more than likely he'll run unopposed.
Weaning from any teat is always stressful, including that of the government.
I thought there was a pretty fair sized group of homeless people who traveled to NO from Atlanta to help rebuild. Funny how the evacuees from the city want to sit elsewhere and complain.
I thought Ragin Nagin WANTED Mardi Gras to go on..at least that's what he said right after Katrina..now he says he was for it before he was against it..
Hey, Atlanta evacuees - here's an idea.
Do a day's work for once in your lives and skip the protest.
There are plenty of other cities in Louisiana and elsewhere on the Gulf Coast that will be happy to host the New Orleans Mardi Gras crews for Mardi Gras: Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria, Shreveport......
Nagin is not satisfied that most of New Orleans was destroyed by Katrina. He wants to make sure that all of it is destroyed by catering to the whining leeches who don't like seeing initiative being rewarded.
Just call it Kwanza Gras and everyone can revel in their disenfranchisement and call for reparations for both Katrina and slavery.
"I thought there was a pretty fair sized group of homeless people who traveled to NO from Atlanta to help rebuild. Funny how the evacuees from the city want to sit elsewhere and complain."
Get yourself educated! Only 12 of Jesse's people stayed (maybe less). There was simply no place for them to live unless they slept on the bare ground. FEMA trailers are only going in at a rate of 7 a day although 20,000 are sitting in fields in Mississippi and Louisiana. The utter incompetence of the federal government to manage this disaster shows how vulnerable the country is to a city-wide terrorist attack. Pray that you never have to go through what the residents in the gulf are going through.
He's trying to pander to both groups, like Bill Clinton used to do. Unfortunately for him, the media doesn't like him as much as they did Bill, so he can't get away with it.
If I were him, I would have just admitted the truth and said: New Orleans needs the money from Mardi Gras simply to survive. Remember, many businesses get almost their entire revenue from the celebration!
Where's all the Katrina relief money that was given by the million in the weeks after the hurricane?
And if they want to come back and resettle, why aren't they back? I hear there are plenty of jobs and a huge worker shortage.
Just asking ...
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Not to mention the city where Mardi Gras started, Mobile Alabama.
Someone BUY Dem a drink!
that would require they actually do something to help themselves without waiting for the gubmint to come to the rescue..
"Protesters fear seeing revelers in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras will make agencies trying to help evacuees withdraw their help."
asshamed?
Ah wan it, Gimme, Gimme... Complaining former NOLA residents, please get off your handout and get to work rebuilding your city.
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As Mardi Gras is now, would Alabama folks except it?
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