City housing codes should have mandated inflatable life boats for each residence The mayor knew the hurricane cycle was in a naturally occurring uptick.
Posted on 09/02/2005 11:14:43 AM PDT by Millee
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
The following is a transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette's interview with Nagin on Thursday night. Robinette asked the mayor about his conversation with President Bush:
NAGIN: I told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice. And that I have been all around this city, and I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources and we're outmanned in just about every respect. (Listen to the mayor express his frustration in this video -- 12:09)
You know the reason why the looters got out of control? Because we had most of our resources saving people, thousands of people that were stuck in attics, man, old ladies. ... You pull off the doggone ventilator vent and you look down there and they're standing in there in water up to their freaking necks.
And they don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn -- excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Saying the Lord's name in vain at a time when he needs the Lord more than anytime in his life. What a disgracing contrast to Rudy Guilliani.
That's because you are I-N-C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-T, Nagin. No plan, no leadership, and you made stupid decisions when you finaly did make one.
This is true.
Can you imagine if Bush had sent troops in right away without local permission? The press would be saying things like "Bush invaded another country...ours!". They would have had a field day with that one. Imagine seeing pa photo of some looter getting fired at by a soldier... the left would have gone crazy with that too.
Maybe he ought to get off his own. All branches of our Military are on their way in and some of them have even be shot at. The U. S. Air Force is going to have the airport up and going soon, not for tourism, for operation so food and supplies can be brought in. The Navy and the Coast Guard is on their way with about twenty ships that can send more Helos to do rescues and produce drinking water. U. S. S. Comfort, the USN hospital ship is in the mix too. The U. S. S. Grapple and other dock ships are on their way to help with those levees. So shove off mayor and get out of our peoples way that can pack there gear and leave them alone.
Need to keep electing idiots. That's the way to go.
I wonder what Mayor Nagin has been doing. I keep hearing him say it's everyone else's fault, but while he blames, his people die.
Mr. Mayor - where exactly are the thousands of meals, bottles of water and medical supplies you surely stored away. You had 40 years to plan for this!
No, the reason you have looters out of control is because the police dealt with looters by using a firm tone of voice ("Put that DVD Player Down, NOW!") rather than shooting them on sight. After the looters moved up from DVD players to guns and ammo, it was too late.
He ran away and is now blaming everyone under the sun.
Mister Mayor - seeing this......I'm pissed that you didn't see fit to take a leadership position to help your constituents.
He's right - where is Ted Kennedy? He's very adept at swimming in deep waters and escaping. And he's always so willing to help others who are consumed by deep waters as well.
Haha! What did I do? ;-)
What garbage. Here is a fellow whose police were seen participating in the looting, whose fleet of city vehicles sits underwater, and whose police lost communications because their "emergency" radio was powered by a natural gas generator and nobody thought to go to battery when it failed. That level of incompetence is absolutely stupefying and it has nothing to do with the federal or state governments.
Methinks the mayor doth protest too much. Stop blaming, get off TV and radio, and GET TO WORK, Mr. Mayor!
He's useless.
He and the govenor should step down and let an adult take over. The people of NO and LA should DEMAND it.
City housing codes should have mandated inflatable life boats for each residence The mayor knew the hurricane cycle was in a naturally occurring uptick.
Give the mayor a little bit of a break.
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None deserved or earned. He is an obvious incompetant. People died because of his lack of leadership. You won't hear him complaining about the Catagory 3 levees because he knows that was a city of NO decision. Army Corps cost-shares those with the locals and the locals have the ultimate say. They didn't build them on his watch but they sure could have been upgraded on his watch. NO wouldn't cough up the bucks--took the gamble and lost. At a minimum if you decided not to upgrade the levees you would have a disaster respondse plan ready, not NO though.
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