Posted on 09/04/2005 10:47:00 AM PDT by NWO Slave
The backlash begins...
When are elections for mayor and governor? The GOP better have someone with leadership abilities lined up for a shoe in.
nagin is a corrupt fool. blanco is incompetent.
both are dangerously out of their depth.
If the left's reaction to this disaster which is on the scale of the tsunami in January is hysterics, fingerpointing, rants, obscenities thrown everywhere, physical threats made by a sitting Louisiana Senator at the President of the US, complaints that FEMA suspend the laws of physics and materialize in a day, and downright deplorable behavior, then I guess we all know
that
they are not to be trusted in an emergency.
I don't think there's any way the GOP could win the mayor's race in NO . . . ever. LA governor is much more likely.
Read the entire interview here.
When evacuees at the Superdome were interviewed by the Houston Chronicle, however, here's what they had to say,
"...Warren Cosey, 41, was less charitable. 'Oh, man, he was crying like a baby,' he said.
Next to Cosey in line was Verdell Berry, who complained that he had not seen the mayor all week. 'He never came in and addressed the crowd or nothing,' he said.
Cosey shook his head. 'If he would have come in here, they would have killed him,' he said."
Read the article here.
In addition, there is some question about Nagin's orders immediately following the Hurricane. In an article in the Los Angeles Times, he was quoted while talking to a radio interviewer as follows:
" 'We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater; with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet. Both airports are underwater,' Mayor Ray Nagin told a radio interviewer.
Nagin evacuated City Hall and ordered everyone who was still in the city - including police officers who were not considered 'central emergency personnel' - to leave."
Read the article here. Nagin, who has been exposed as a "Good-Time Mayor" was way...way...way over his head in this crisis. He had absolutely no clue. As is typical of so many Democrats, his desperate attempts to rewrite history and tweak the timeline involve exaggeration, embellishment, and outright lies. He knows he failed. He knows that people died because of his inaction prior to the storm as well as his disappearing act immediately afterwards.
We'll see how this plays out over the next few weeks but, with the majority of the LSM acting as a pre-emptive PR firm for the DNC, I am not confident that facts will play a significant role in analyzing this tragedy and preventing future replays.
ping for reference
I think the total submerged bus count from the aerials in 576 now.
Mayor of what, exactly?
New Orleans had 364 Transit Authority buses, and at least 430 school buses available, and failed to use any of them, except the one the kid stole????
Simple...It's better for a Black mayor to throw a hissyfit in the press than do what is right. Those that died will no longer be voters anyway.
I don't think their will be a mayors race in New Orleans. I don't think the city will ever recover for 5-15 years. It never be the same. I don't see the population ever becoming close to what it was. The city is a sewer
sure there will. NO will be flooded with federal bucks for years.
Other federal and state officials pointed to Louisiana's failure to measure up to national disaster response standards, noting that the federal plan advises state and local emergency managers not to expect federal aid for 72 to 96 hours, and base their own preparedness efforts on the need to be self-sufficient for at least that period.
"Fundamentally the first breakdown occurred at the local level," said one state official who works with FEMA. 'Did the city have the situational awareness of what was going on within its borders? The answer was no."
Dems never let that stop them from voting.
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