Get Off It Mayor Nagin
Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin said this:
“I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses,”… “Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get that [expletive] moving to New Orleans … This is a major, major, major deal. I can’t emphasize that enough.”
But then — he had these:
Just sitting around before the Hurricane hit.
Me thinks someone needs to start eating some serious crow folks!
Combs Spouts Off has a great post on just this, with more information here.
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1Trelaina
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 8:20
I remember sitting in a conference room at work Tuesday morning, watching the news about the levee breaks, saying that every bus in the city should be mobilized. The Bush Adminstration is to blame? Hardly. New Orleans is to blame for sitting around waiting for the federal government to take action.
2Tricia
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 8:51
SO glad to find your blog…your thoughts are my own…but you put them into words way better than I ever could!! I look forward to visiting daily!
3Deb
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 10:39
I’m wondering why the buses weren’t staged in some outside area so they could be used to evacuate the poor/those without transportation when the mayor issued the evacuation order in the beginning…before the levees were even breached. That appears to be poor LOCAL planning. Nagin needs to be called on it and do some ’splainin’ himself vs. cursing and blaming others.
4Jay
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 12:42
Yeah, this got me pissed too. Blaming Bush, cursing God’s name in the process, and its really more this guy’s fault than anyones.
5docjim505
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 18:07
A picture is worth a thousand words.
It’s perhaps not fair to be too critical of any government official or agency in the face of such a disaster, but it does seem that Nagin wasn’t quite on the ball here.
Hopefully, he and the other state and local officials all through the hurricane-prone Gulf and southern Atlantic areas will learn a HUGE lesson from all this and be much better prepared next time.
6Andi
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 21:56
Nothing like a little forward planning. No worries though, if you fail to adequately prepare your city, President Bush is always a convenient target. Leading from the rear rarely produces results.
7keith
wrote on 3 September 2005 at 22:32
Nagin is the product of 40 years of White Liberals. They have been told Blacks can not do for themselves, only government can look out for them. He cries for someone else to give him buses, not realizing that he had hundreds just sitting there. And when he realizes that he has failed in his responsibility to New Orleans, he starts blaming others. Like a baby, he only knows how to want and demand, not how to solve problems.
8Mr. Snitch!
wrote on 4 September 2005 at 8:36
Crow, schmoe. This is the beginning of a colossal lawsuit in the making.
http://mistersnitch.blogspot.com/2005/09/politics-of-evacuation-part-one.html
9Degman
wrote on 26 September 2005 at 17:07
NAGIN…..WHAT A JOKE!!!