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  • Nagin said slow response cost lives (singles out Gov, who asked for 24 hours to make a key decision)

    09/04/2005 11:45:10 PM PDT · by Diddle E. Squat · 68 replies · 2,732+ views
    NOLA.com ^ | 9/4/05 | NOLA.com
    Frustrated and grieving, Mayor Ray Nagin on Sunday again ripped the painfully slow response of state and federal authorities... ...Nagin singled out Gov. Kathleen Blanco for criticism, saying that the governor had asked for 24 hours to think over a decision when time was a luxury that no one, especially refugees, had. “When the president and the governor got here, I said, 'Mr. President, Madame Governor, you two have to get in synch. If you don't, more people are going to die.” Blanco and Bush met privately at his insistence, Nagin said, after which Bush came out and told Nagin...