Posted on 09/11/2005 2:54:36 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 12:39 a.m. EDT Ray Nagin: Flooded School Buses Not My Fault
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday that it wasn't his fault city school buses weren't mobilized to facilitate the Hurricane Katrina evacuation he ordered.
Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? I mean were national guard troops in position. Were helicopters standing by? Were buses ready to take people away?"
"No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied. "Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked.
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else."
The Louisiana Democrat didn't explain just who the "somebody else" was, saying only:
"All I can do is [say] that I was dealing with it as a mayor -- how do I prepare my city for an incredibly powerful storm? So immediately we tried to get as many people out as possible."
The "Dateline" exchange was only the second time Mayor Nagin had been asked about the failure to use his city's school buses, hundreds of which sat 1.2 miles from the Superdome.
Two days after the levees broke, Nagin told a New Orleans radio station that he wanted Greyhound Bus Lines to send their entire fleet rather than launch an evacuation in public school buses.
"One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here," Nagin said.
"I'm like - you've got to be kidding me. This is a natural disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
The Man In Charge Of School Buses had fled before the hurricane. That explains everything.
Is "somebody else" mayor of New Orleans?
In my opinion, Gov. Blanco had more legal authority over the school buses than Mayor Nagin. And she could have deployed the National Guard to drive the buses.
No, but somebody else will be mayor after next election!
The Busmaster General?
Perhaps in his mind the POTUS should have driven those buses... I think if he said "Bush should have", the MSM will agree and it will become a headline...
So he was smoking crack in a hotel room?
MAYOR NAGIN'S FACE MYSTICALLY RENDERED ON A PIECE OF TOAST!
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There is a reason for local governments to have in place an emergency plan Mr. Nagin, one is to protect human life, and in the case of New Orleans that plan provided guidance as to what responsibilities were the mayor's. So is it true to say you did not know what your responsibilities were and failed to follow the plan or did you know the plan existed and failed to implement the plan?
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday that it wasn't his fault city school buses weren't mobilized to facilitate the Hurricane Katrina evacuation he ordered.
Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? I mean were national guard troops in position.
Were helicopters standing by?
Were buses ready to take people away?"
"No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied.
"Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked.
Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else."
Thanks - and great job, sir!
I've decided that, as with many of the Democrats in, for example, California, these two (Nagin and Blanco) got "elected" into office because they fulfilled the niche requirements of who ~should be~ in office and that is: feminists and racial minorities. Regardless of qualifications and character.
Not that those two generalized types should not hold office or otherwise be elected but that the stereotypes only go so far to get anything done and mostly when stereotypes are elected, when there's no other substance there, they just fill out the office, sit in the chair, make a big show. We can now see that that's about it for these two, specifically: they arrived by way of fulfilling a stereotype but had little to nothing else to offer.
There's no leadership. Leadership is what they're supposed to provide once in office.
Nagin's responses are among the most cruelly stupid I've yet to hear/read...he can laugh and be cute and a pretty man and all but, given the amount of suffering, damages and even deaths in a city he was supposed to be leading away from those dastardly happenings, he's looking quite criminal to my view. Like a stupid criminal, nothing more, and that's very bad.
If and when anyone can figure out why this stupid guy would ever reason his way to deny the use of school buses readily available -- in trying to contend with a life-or-death situation -- while demanding "air conditioning" in other buses that were no where to be seen, please let me know. Sometimes stupid is tragically criminal, and this is one of those times.
Great Googly Moogly! I can't believe this man is getting away with this.
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