1. Why didn't the mayor follow the Louisiana Evacuation plan?
2. Why were there so few National Guardsmen at the Superdome?
3. Why were there no porta-johns taken to the Superdome?
4. Why did the New Orleans police department have only one working boat?
5. Why was the New Orleans police department so poorly equipped that officers had to buy their own guns?
5. Where did all the FEMA money in Louisiana go? How much was taken by James Lee Witt and Wesley Clark, and why is Witt now being hired to review the same plan?
6. Where did the money the levee board had go? Did it fund a casino?
6. How come those buses never went to pick people up?
7. Why won't Governor Banco cede authority? What is she trying to hide?
I could go on and on, but you get my point, I'm sure. And I am NOT going to be nice about it. I will be calling every outlet I can find and asking these questions.
All your questions should go to Tony tomorrow.
I'll give it a shot.
1. Why didn't the mayor follow the Louisiana Evacuation plan?
Because he failed to follow his own emergency evacuation plans, which called for the use of public transportation equipment to get people out. Abt. 2,000 city buses and school buses could have taken abt. 60,000 people out in one trip. See 6b.
2. Why were there so few National Guardsmen at the Superdome?
Ask the Governor. She is the CIC of the Lousiana National Guard. Ask her how many NG Troops she requested from other States. Ask the Mayor if he asked for NG Troops, how many and when?
3. Why were there no porta-johns taken to the Superdome?
Beats me. They might have been stored in the same area where those buses were under water. I doubt they were stored in the French Quarter. Find suppliers and ask them where they are.
4. Why did the New Orleans police department have only one working boat?
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1878012005
[Jefferson Parish]
For miles along Highway 10, which leads to Baton Rouge, 50 miles to the west, buses are arriving in convoy. Hundreds of volunteers with small boats wait in a line stretching at least a mile for the word to get on to the water to rescue people, but they are being turned back after the first boat was shot at."
"For now, we are holding the boats back until we know it is safe to send more out there. We are trying to do our job here but we can't if they are shooting at us," said Major Joey Broussard of the Louisiana State Fisheries and Wildlife Division. Some of his team are now wearing body armour.
Ken Dunnen and his fellow volunteers from the Ville Platte Fire Department are out on a cutter and report surreal scenes. "Houses are totalled, animals are dead and floating in the water. We are riding level with the tops of the street lamps. There are cars under the water and you can just about see their roofs in places," says Mr Dunnen.
"It's one hell of a mess - one hell of a mess."
5. Why was the New Orleans police department so poorly equipped that officers had to buy their own guns?
See this story: New Orleans, Boston, Detroit and Alameda County, Calif., are suing gun manufacturers and dealers for distributing what they deem a dangerous product -- and then turning around and selling guns themselves.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/13/guns/print.html
5b. Where did all the FEMA money in Louisiana go? How much was taken by James Lee Witt and Wesley Clark, and why is Witt now being hired to review the same plan?
Go to this link for the goods on Mr. Witt. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477043/posts?page=596#596
6. Where did the money the levee board had go? Did it fund a casino?
Four months before its lease with the Orleans Levee Board expires, Bally's Casino New Orleans' financially troubled lakefront casino is seeking a renegotiated deal that would slash future payments to the flood control agency by nearly $900,000 a year.
-- NOLA - Tuesday July 1, 2003
http://www.politicsla.com/archives/2003/July.htm
6b. How come those buses never went to pick people up?
See Number 3. And this. http://www.loep.state.la.us/evacinfo/no_contraflow.htm
7. Why won't Governor Banco cede authority? What is she trying to hide?
Hide?? Here are the major actions she has taken to date. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476864/posts?page=160#160