I hate to say it, but this is the 2nd thing he has recently done that I have to agree with..........
Oh, I didn't say I don't agree with him. But I don't have to like him.
;-)
(what was the first?)
What was the first?
I'll grant Easley in NC and Kaine here in VA one thing--they may be Rats, but they aren't stuck on stupid. In non-political affairs of state like this, they're both reasonably competent.
Ditto Doug Wilder here in Richmond. Like I said in another post a while back, Doug Wilder is a Rat to the core, and one of the most arrogant SOBs in Virginia politics, but he does know how to run a city, and he doesn't take a lot of crap off anybody from any side of the political spectrum. They've already got crews down in Shockoe Bottom to keep the storm drains clear and they've also set up distribution points for free sandbags and sand so business owners can protect their properties.
As much as I dislike the guy, I really believe that if Doug Wilder had been running New Orleans, a hell of a lot more people would've been evacuated before Katrina hit.
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Seems like folks learned a lesson after Gaston.