Busses not good enough for New Orleans Mayor

[vurbano]

[font=ARIAL, HELVETICA]Not sure how reputable the site is but heres what theyve written.[/font]

[font=ARIAL, HELVETICA]http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/8/114045.shtml[/font]


[font=ARIAL, HELVETICA]With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff[/font] [font=ARIAL, HELVETICA]For the story behind the story... [/font]

[font=Courier, Times New Roman]Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 11:38 a.m. EDT

Ray Nagin: School Buses Not Good Enough

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin garnered a ton of publicity with a profanity-laced interview he gave to WWL radio last Thursday, where he blasted President Bush and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco for not coming to rescue his city in time.



However, Nagin's most newsworthy comments - where he explained why he didn't use hundreds of city school buses to evacuate his city's flood victims - went almost unnoticed.



Turns out, Nagin turned his nose up at the yellow buses, demanding more comfortable Greyhound coaches instead.

"I need 500 buses, man," he told WWL. "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 described his response:

"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."

While Nagin was waiting for his Greyhound fleet, Katrina's floodwaters swamped his school buses, rendering them unusable.

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[dfergie]

In a disaster you should use whatever means to get your people out there is... If this is true... Nagin is resposible for many deaths...

 

[riffjim4069]

If true, Ray Nagin will go down at this decades Bill Buckner, except Bill Bucker's error didn't cost lives.

 

[CPanther95]

That photo posted earlier had about 250 school buses visible.

 

[vurbano]

I really think this guy was so panicked he didnt realize what he was doing. A former 400k/yr Cox cable exec in charge of party town USA.

 

[Bob Haller]

Ahh Bush is a bigger screw up.

 

[CPanther95]

Yeah, that's the cause of the problem.

That's the kind of brilliant insight that will keep the democrats on the political sidelines for years to come.

 

[vurbano]

I was going to say something about respective death tolls but that would be in bad taste.

 

[Stargazer]

I wonder what the mayor would say in response to this.

 

[Van]

The officials ( not the nagin idiot ) are feeling that the mayors estimates are becoming more over estimated after what theyve come across so far.

 

[Madtown HD Junkie]

Ahh Bush is a bigger screw up.

Care to elaborate?