Posted on 09/04/2005 12:35:46 PM PDT by Perdogg
"Because he was elected on his color and race, and not on his ability to govern or run a city...."
... or DRIVE A BUS. Where's Ralph Cramden when we need him.
BING! BANG! ZOOM! To the Moon Mayor Nagging(Nagin)!
Use the Lord's name in vain on TV - yeah maybe that will help!
I'm sure the NAACP had a lot to do with it. The NAACP picks their guy, threatens the DNC with protests if they pick somebody else, and he winds up on the ticket. Since the inner city votes overwhelmingly DemonRat, the Repub. candidate doesn't matter. They just keep up their chant that the Repubs. are racists who hate poor people.
NAGIN: "Go Greyhound, and Leave the Whining to Us"
10-day troll, and you waited until now to post THIS?
Philly's John Street must be pleased - he's no longer the worst mayor in the US.
The reporter no doubt got a free pass to the Mayor's favorite brothel for compassion and understanding of the mayor's predicament.
Unbelievable! What is a mayor supposed to do for his city? I've never been a mayor (or any elected official) but is a mayor really this helpless? It didn't seem like Rudy Guliani was helpless. Did he put a real strangehold on crime in New York City -- way before 9/11? Please, someone, educate me!
Buh Bye Troll.
NAGIN: I've already called for martial law in the city of New Orleans. We did that a few days ago.
WWL: Did the governor do that, too?
NAGIN: I don't know. I don't think so.
You don't KNOW???
Translated to Ebonics:
MAYOR RAY NAGIN: I told him we had an incredible crisis heea and dat his flyin ova in Air Force One does not do it justice. And dat I gots been all around dis city, and I be very frustrated cus we is not able ta marshal resources and we're outmainened in just about every respect.
You know da reason why da looters got out of control? Because we had most of our resources savin people, thousands of people dat were stuck in attics, maine, old ladies. ... You pull off da doggone ventilator vent and ya look down der and they're standin in der in water up ta their freakin necks.
And they don't gots a clue what's goin on down heea. They flew down heea one time two days after da doggone event was ova wit TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn -- excuse muh French everybody in America, but I be pissed.
WWL: Did ya say ta da president of da United States, "I need da military in heea"?
NAGIN: I said, "I need everythin."
Now, I tell ya dis -- and I give da president some credit on dis -- he sent one John Wayne dude down heea dat can get some stuff done, and his name be [Lt.] Gen. [Russel] Honoe.
And he came off da doggone chopper, and he started cussin and people started movin. And he's gettin some stuff done.
They ought ta give dat guy -- if they don't want ta give it ta me, give him full authority ta get da job done, and we can save some people.
WWL: What do ya need right now ta get control of dis situation?
NAGIN: I need reinfocements, I need troops, maine. I need 500 buses, maine. We ain't talkin about -- ya know, one of da briefins we had, they were talkin about gettin public skoo bus drivers ta come down heea and bus people out heea.
I be like, "You got ta be kiddin me. This be a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in da country and get their asses movin ta New Orleans."
That's -- they're thinkin small, maine. And dis be a major, major, major deal. And I can't emphasize it enough, maine. This be crazy.
I've got 15,000 ta 20,000 people ova at da convention center. It's burstin at da seams. The poor people in Plaquemines Parish. ... We don't gots anythin, and we're sharin wit our brothers in Plaquemines Parish.
It's awful down heea, maine.
WWL: Do ya believe dat da president be seein dis, holdin a news conference on it but can't do anythin until [Louisiana Gov.] Kathleen Blanco requested him ta do it? And do ya know whether or not she has made dat request?
NAGIN: I gots no idea what they're doin. But I tell ya dis: You know, God be lookin down on all dis, and if they is not doin everythin in their power ta save people, they is goin ta pay da price. Because every day dat we delay, people is dyin and they're dyin by da hundreds, I be willin ta bet ya.
We're gettin reports and calls dat is breakin muh heart, from people sayin, "I've been in muh attic. I can't take it anymoe. The water be up ta muh neck. I don't think I can hold out." And dat's happenin as we speak.
You know what fo real upsets me, Garland? We told everybody da importance of da 17th Street Canal issue. We said, "Please, please take ridee of dis. We don't ridee what ya do. Figure it out."
WWL: Who'd ya say dat to?
NAGIN: Everybody: da govanor, Homeland Security, FEMA. You name it, we said it.
And they allowed dat pumpin station next ta Pumpin Station 6 ta go under water. Our sewage and water board people ... stayed der and endangered their lives.
And what happened when dat pumpin station went down, da water started flowin again in da city, and it startin gettin ta levels dat probably killed moe people.
In addition ta dat, we had water flowin through da pipes in da city. That's a power station ova der.
So der's no water flowin anywheea on da east bank of Orleans Parish. So our critical water supply was destroyed cus of lack of action.
WWL: Why couldn't they drop da 3,000-pound sandbags or da containers dat they were talkin about earlier? Was it an engineerin feat dat just couldn't be done?
NAGIN: They said it was some pulleys dat they had ta maineufacture. But, ya know, in a state of emergency, maine, yas creative, ya figure out ways ta get stuff done.
Then they told me dat they went ovanight, and they built 17 concrete structures and they had da pulleys on them and they were goin ta drop them.
I flew ova dat thin yeeterday, and it's in da same shape dat it was after da storm hit. Theea be nothin happenin. And they're feedin da public a line of bull and they're spinnin, and people is dyin down heea.
WWL: If some of da public called and they're right, dat der's a law dat da president, dat da federal govanment can't do anythin witout local or state requests, would ya request martial law?
NAGIN: I've already called fo martial law in da city of New Orleans. We did dat a few days ago.
WWL: Did da govanor do dat, too? NAGIN: I don't know. I don't think so.
But we called fo martial law when we realized dat da lootin was gettin out of control. And we redirected all of our police officers back ta patrollin da streets. They were dead-tired from savin people, but they worked all night cus we thought dis thin was goin ta blow wide open last night. And so we redirected all of our resources, and we hold it under check.
I be not sho if we can do dat another night wit da current resources.
And I be tellin ya right now: They're showin all these reports of people lootin and doin all dat weird stuff, and they is doin dat, but people is desperate and they're tryin ta find food and water, da majority of them.
Now ya got some knuckleheads out der, and they is takin advantage of dis lawless -- dis situation wheea, ya know, we can't fo real control it, and they're doin some awful, awful thins. But dat's a small majority of da people. Most people is lookin ta try and survive.
And one of da thins people -- nobody's talked about dis. Drugs flowed in and out of New Orleans and da surroundin metropolitan isa so freely it was sridey ta me, and dat's why we were havin da escalation in murders. People don't want ta talk about dis, but I be goin ta talk about it.
You gots drug addicts dat is now walkin around dis city lookin fo a fix, and dat's da reason why they were breakin in hospitals and drugstoes. They're lookin fo somethin ta take da edge off of their jones, if ya will.
And right now, they don't gots anythin ta take da edge off. And they've probably found guns. So what yo seein be drug-starvin crazy addicts, drug addicts, dat is wreckin havoc. And we don't gots da mainepower ta adequately deal wit it. We can only target certain sections of da city and fom a perimeter around them and hope ta God dat we're not ovarun.
WWL: Well, ya and I must be in da minority. Because appisntly der's a section of our citizenry out der dat thinks cus of a law dat says da federal govanment can't come in unless requested by da proper people, dat everythin dat's goin on ta dis point has been done as crunk as it can possibly be.
NAGIN: Really?
WWL: I know ya don't feel dat way.
NAGIN: Well, did da tsunami victims request? Did it go through a fomal process ta request?
You know, did da Iraqi people request dat we go in der? Did they ask us ta go in der? What be moe important?
And I'll tell ya, maine, I be probably goin get in a whole bunch of trouble. I be probably goin ta get in so much trouble it ain't even funny. You probably won't even want ta deal wit me after dis interview be ova.
WWL: You and I be in da funny place together.
NAGIN: But we authorized $8 billion ta go ta Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave da president unprecedented powers lickety-quick ta take ridee of New York and other places.
Now, ya mean ta tell me dat a place wheea most of yo oil be comin through, a place datis so unique when ya mention New Orleans anywheea around da world, everybody's eyes light up -- ya mean ta tell me dat a place wheea ya probably gots thousands of people dat gots died and thousands moe dat is dyin every day, dat we can't figure out a way ta authorize da resources dat we need? Come on, maine.
You know, I be not one of those drug addicts. I be thinkin very clearly.
And I don't know whose problem it is. I don't know whether it's da govanor's problem. I don't know whether it's da president's problem, but somebody needs ta get their ass on a plane and sit down, da two of them, and figure dis out right now.
WWL: What can we do heea?
NAGIN: Keep talkin about it.
WWL: We'll do dat. What else can we do?
NAGIN: Organize people ta write letters and make calls ta their congressmen, ta da president, ta da govanor. Flood their doggone offices wit requests ta do somethin. This be ridiculous.
I don't want ta see anybody do anymoe goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until da resources is in dis city. And then come down ta dis city and stand wit us when der is military trucks and troops dat we can't even count.
Don't tell me 40,000 people is comin heea. They're not heea. It's too doggone late. Now get off yo asses and do somethin, and let's fix da biggest goddamn crisis in da history of dis country.
WWL: I'll say it right now, yo da only politician dat's called and called fo arms like dis. And if -- whatever it takes, da govanor, president -- whatever law precedent it takes, whatever it takes, I bet dat da people listenin ta yas on yo side.
NAGIN: Well, I hope so, Garland. I be just -- I be at da point now wheea it don't matter. People is dyin. They don't gots homes. They don't gots jobs. The city of New Orleans will never be da same in dis time.
WWL: We're both pretty speechless heea.
NAGIN: Yeah, I don't know what ta say. I got ta go
Got anything to say about the subject of the thread, or are we just posting vanities today?
See ya.
NAGIN: I have no idea what they're doing.
He has no idea what they're doing. What is he, the twelfth guy on the deal team? The last to know?
This is the mayor, for God's sake.
He is no idea what they're doing? He never thought to call Kathleen Blanco and ask: "Say there, baby sweet cheeks, what's happenin'? You heard anything from the Feds yet?"
Boy, are you on drugs?
Is the boy crazy?!
No one's gonna post a pic of the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool?
It sure doesn't say a lot for the Democrats if they can't defeat somebody you think is a "Flake" LOSER!
As a former dispatcher in Dallas for Greyhound, it's nice to see that even lunatic libs can appreciate the service that the company provides.
Why didn't he mobilize his own city transit buses and school buses to evacuate people BEFORE the hurricane hit? That is the real question here.
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