New Orleans Mayor Says FEMA Made Promises That Weren't Kept

[DoYouEverWonder]

September 27, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday it's "unbelievable" to hear the outgoing head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency try to deflect the blame.

He also said he doesn't know what Michael Brown meant when Brown Monday described Louisiana as dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina.

Brown, testifying to a House panel, said state and local officials bear much of the blame for government failures in responding to the storm.

In response, Nagin said, "We were saving lives, rescuing people, trying to evacuate them. It was hectic." He told reporters, "the feds, local, state, all across the board, did not have the processes to deal with a storm of this magnitude."

Nagin also told reporters that "things spiraled" after FEMA officials made promises that "weren't kept."

http://www.wdsu.com/news/5027421/detail.html

[savemefromdumbya]

1. Mayor needs to fight back

Obviously Karl Rove spinning the spin - Mayor and Gov need to fight back. We need to help them! Letters to the editor.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Blanco is testifying tomorrow

When they can Blanco and Nagin have been fighting back but of course the M$M barely covers it when they do.

[chalky]

3. To be really effective, he should unite with Blanco in a full out assault.

n/t

[goclark]

6. Yes! Drownie wants to take every one

down with his sinking ship.

Nagin was there in the heat of battle,trying to hold his city together without help from the outside.

Drownie was in his cushey office, feet on the desk and planning lunch with the Chimp.

Drownie and Drunkie ,two little idiots in charge of the lives of so many.

Shame

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. How dare he question a horse breeder? Brownie did a great job.

That's what Idiot Son said.

[TankLV]

13. Must've been reading an advance copy of gorgonzola rice's biography.

I sense a pattern here.

Trouble is, the democratic leadership doesn't - they happily approved rice's appointment, instead of recommending she do prison time.

[GOPAgainstGW]

5. BushCo Knows They Can Beat on N.O. because it's a corrupt Banana Republic

[goclark]

8. The WH is the Banana Republic nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Brown has been "let go" before. He received this particular job

because he was the college roommate of the last FEMA director. Brown probably couldn't keep a job working at a shopping mall.

[genieroze]

9. You mean they lied, why would this mis-administration lie.

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

10. towards the end of the hearing that FEMA was dysfunctional as it had

been deconstructed when put into the Homeland Security -and defunded, and lack of personal, etc.

[goforit]

11. Let him have it Nagin!!!.

[earth mom]

12. We're rootin for you Mayor Nagin!

Don't let those lying bastards win! :grr: