Someone please have Blanco read the LA statutes.
This is an excerpt from N.O. evacuation plan. I am pretty sure they did not pull the mayor's authority out of thin air.
III. EVACUATION ORDER
A. Authority
As established by the City of New Orleans Charter, the government has jurisdiction and responsibility in disaster response. City government shall coordinate its efforts through the Office of Emergency Preparedness
The authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane is conferred to the Governor by Louisiana Statute. The Governor is granted the power to direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from a stricken or threatened area within the State, if he deems this action necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation, response or recovery. The same power to order an evacuation conferred upon the Governor is also delegated to each political subdivision of the State by Executive Order. This authority empowers the chief elected official of New Orleans, the Mayor of New Orleans, to order the evacuation of the parish residents threatened by an approaching hurricane.
Well, with your last post I think you pretty much proved conclusively that Blanco has never read the evacuation plan with her insistence that she and she alone can order an evacuation.
Nagin, I think, has. I'm coming around to the thought that he hasn't been as bad as it might have seemed, but he's been stymied at every turn by the state government.
The problem is that the mad woman may wind up killing more people by exposing them needlessly to New Orleans' toxic soup.
I hope this all gets a thorough airing at the Congressional hearings . . .
I'd think Blanco would know whether or not she had issued such an Executive Order. Without one, Nagin doesn't have the power & I doubt he'd have control of any forces necessary to enforce the order anyway. Legally the witch is right, but morally...