Regulator2 wrote:Here is an even better one...why they didn't use the school buses to get the people out
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.
nice thinking Mayor Nagin...tell the 10 - 15000 dead that when they come to haunt you...but I guess you have to have a concious to be haunted
But you know the worse thing about it, when it comes time for election (and it is taking all I can to remove the ebonics from this statement) "vote for Nagin, he turned down sufficient transportation in favor of the velvet lined greyhound buses, who else would have done that, he is a mayor for the people. See, this is how it happend, "the man" sent yellow school buses for us, now you guys know we don't roll like that, I mean, they don't even have headrests for my fro, and the mayor was like "oooohhh no you didn't, you didn't just say you were going to send school buses, un-uh, homie don't play that... You see, he is a mayor for the people"...
And for those of you who are old school SNL, ala Hanz and Franz I offer "listen to me now, hear me later and believe me when it happens, he will be elected for being a mayor for the fo' real people".
T
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