Vacancy.
Posted on 02/04/2006 7:28:35 AM PST by Ellesu
(AP) A group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees staying at a Queens hotel want it to contribute $2,500 to each family as an incentive to move, but the hotel's owners are questioning their obligation to pay.
Charlie King, a lawyer and a Democratic candidate for New York attorney general who was involved in a meeting this week on the proposal between hotel management and community leaders, told The New York Times in Saturday's editions that the money also would help cover costs for families seeking permanent housing.
The owners of the hotel, Radisson J.F.K. Airport, are expected to meet with the families' representatives on Tuesday.
"What the hotel is wondering is why private citizens are coming forward and asking the hotel for things that are FEMA's responsibility," said Marc Leffman, chief executive of Atlanta-based French Quarter Hospitality, which owns the hotel.
About 30 families remain at the Radisson, the last of about 120 Gulf Coast-area families who arrived there after the hurricane.
Their rooms are being paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Many of the families who have left the hotel have relocated to city-managed or permanent housing, or to other hotels in the area.
In January, the Radisson's managers told remaining evacuees that they would need to find new housing by the end of the month because of a scheduled $7 million hotel renovation. That led to a protest in which the Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to boycott the hotel if it forced the evacuees to leave.
Evict the suckers. Throw their sorry asses out on the street.
I would gladly be willing to pitch toward the $2500 for these families if it included a one way ticket to France.
sheesh! still at the raddison and
someone else is supposed to pay to
relocate them?
"What the hotel is wondering is why private citizens are coming forward and asking the hotel for things that are FEMA's responsibility," said Marc Leffman, chief executive of Atlanta-based French Quarter Hospitality, which owns the hotel.
Why in blazes does this guy, or anyone else for that matter, think this is still FEMA's responsibility? These folks just don't want to leave the government teat.
Fox in general gives Sharpton tons of publicity. He should have been run out of town after the Tawana Brawley debacle, and should have been made to pay restitution and serve jail time for his role in destroying the life of the man he defamed.
Why ANYONE gives this buffoon any credibility or publicity is beyond belief.
Start the renovation, shut down the resturant, bar, laundry, maid service, air conditioning, cable, elevators, etc and they'll move out quickly.....
In fact, Sharpton and some of the Hollyweirds should allow them to STAY IN THEIR HOMES for awhile.
THAT would prove to me how much they really care!
Extortionist leeches.
How about lazy-assed, scum-sucking leeches?
what the ...?
This angers me to no end.
This would be funny were it not so sad.
Here, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571692/posts we seem to have NYC proposals to pay evacuees to leave.
While at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571688/posts they are shooting police in Houston.
Separated by three posts on FR forum list. Amazing.
< Start the renovation, shut down the resturant, bar, laundry, maid service, air conditioning, cable, elevators, etc and they'll move out quickly..... >
It would then feel "just like home".
Vacancy.
Yup, all of NO pre-Katrina problems are just now spread out.
Can we all say "stereotypes originate for a reason"?
Once an entitlement, always an entitlement.
Do these people think they can stay in this hotel for the rest of their lives?
I would bet you dollars to donuts half of them are from NYC, and have never been to New Orleans.
sw
Yes, I believe we Can say "stereotypes originate for a reason" and be accurate. It serves as instructive as well to see how different cities handle the similar problems. Just as Katrina showed us how Democrats ran New Orleans and Louisianna, now we'll have an education in how other Democrat and Republican strongholds handle them as well. Are these problems a one time problem, or systemic to the system depending on which party/mindset is in power?
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