Ok, maybe I'm harping...
...but Mayor Nagin's comments really ticked me off. Why? Because of things like this:
-Contra Costa Times, August 29th, 2005
Update: Almost forgot about this:
Those are probably Mayor Nagin's "500 buses" that he demanded that federal government send him. Odd how they are already in New Orleans and hadn't been pre-positioned in an area that they wouldn't get flooded out.
"Katrina's threat was so acute that President Bush joined the chorus of officials who urged New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to order a mandatory evacuation, issued Sunday morning after lower-lying areas outside the city were cleared Saturday."
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"Leon Moore, 55, the left side of his body paralyzed for the past 12 years because of a stroke, pulled his weathered red truck up to the Superdome and angrily decried Mayor Nagin. "The mayor of the city didn't make preparations for the handicapped," he said.
The criticisms of Nagin came from above as well. Numerous officials urged him to evacuate the city, but he worried about the legality of ordering people out when New Orleans has few safe hurricane shelters for them to evacuate to.
Also, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield in Miami called Nagin at home Saturday night and told him: Get people out of New Orleans.
-Contra Costa Times, August 29th, 2005
Update: Almost forgot about this:
Those are probably Mayor Nagin's "500 buses" that he demanded that federal government send him. Odd how they are already in New Orleans and hadn't been pre-positioned in an area that they wouldn't get flooded out.
