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.
One hundred years from now, the offspring of these Katrina "victims" will be demanding "reparations."
Right on, Hermit -- but, I might suggest you preface that phrase with "Black Welfare" !
Uh, Mr. Leffman,... in New York it's called "protection". If you haven't figured that out yet, you soon will.
Unfortunately, FEMA (that's we-the-taxpayers, folks) will likely pick up the trashing damages of this once majestic Radisson, which now probably resembles the nearest "projects".
The hotel owners (God Bless 'em) in the Detroit area are kicking themselves right now. Some of them were not expecting the "victims" to hang around this long.
They do receive FEMA compensation for putting them up, but it's a mere pittance compared to the $300+ a day per-room that they could have been pulling in during the SuperBowl week.
I hear you. I lived in that city (NOLA) for about 10 years, and it was full of people who had no idea what common sense, integrity, hard work, or responsibility was about. They knew plenty about promiscuity, teen age pregnancy, truancy, crime and free handouts.
But my question to you, Pesky, is HOW DID WE (me and you) LET THIS HAPPEN!!!??? sarcasm/
See my post #44. "We the FEMA" are paying $60 a night to keep deadbeats from doing anything other than sucking on the teat.
Your comment on the "projects" is yet another reason the Detroit hotels are kicking themselves now.
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What the heck is not-so-Sharpton going to boycott? The hotel's right to run a business?
I wish I could take back all the money and time that I donated to my "fellow citizens". They should take a lesson from the tsunami victims who are picking themselves up and moving on w/o screaming for someone else to come to their rescue yet again.
Might be the best $75,000 the hotel ever spent.
Gypsy Welfare Queens.
The "evacuees" will wind up suing the hotel and FEMA. The sad part is that they'll win.
Wonder if they get room service for meals and do they have to pay for the meals?
This is just a wild guess, but I will bet that the hotels will have to spend a fortune renovating the rooms the "refugees" lived in.
This is just a wild guess, but I will bet that the hotels will have to spend a fortune renovating the rooms the "refugees" lived in.
This is just a wild guess, but I will bet that the hotels will have to spend a fortune renovating the rooms the "refugees" lived in.
This is just a wild guess, but I will bet that the hotels will have to spend a fortune renovating the rooms the "refugees" lived in.
A quad post. Has to be a record breaker. LOL
Don't worry. Happens to everyone sometime...usually in twos, tho.
< The "evacuees" will wind up suing the hotel and FEMA. The sad part is that they'll win. >
With the ACLU funding them.
I grew up in North Louisiana and knew early on about the corruptness of the "Long Dynasty", but it was hard to convince people they were being used for their vote and were helping Louisiana to become a 'welfare' state. As a teenager, I tried to convince my grandfather -- to no avail. He thought it was more important to receive an increase in his "old age pension", and a Republican wouldn't give him the raise! You tell me...I tried and failed!
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