this guy is probably ruining his career...but wow..is he ever giving it to everyone
He'll get a lot of respect from the people of NO.. and i think they'll see through any kind of smear campaign played against him when this is finished(which wont be for a very long time)
this guy is probably ruining his career...but wow..is he ever giving it to everyone
I don't think he is ruining his career. He is just looking through his eyes and
speaking from his heart. The whole world is watching how this unfolds....it will
be interesting to see how GW is going to backpaddle out of this mess....but
that's for later.........first things first save as many peeps as possible.
Whatever hasn't been done in the past few days should be done right now......
The problem is then when the military is brought in and kills these people, people will whine and say how America is a police state, and another Waco, etc.
Its really a cant win situation. This mayer is just trying to save his street crediblity.
"one of the public briefings we had they was talking about getting public school bus drivers down here and bus these people outta here. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me? This is a national disaster - get every dog gone greyhound bus line in the country, and get they ass moving down to new orleans! They thinkin small, and this is a major major major deal. and I cant emphasize it enough. this is crazy"
This guy is no joke.. I feel for him as well as everyone involved. NOw bush is down there holding onto two blk girls acting like he feels for them.. IT FUCKING LOOKS LIKE A CAMPAIN AD@#$ errr This is fucking the worse thing i've ever seen. I WOULD LOVE to see one of them girls slap the shit look of the prez's face.
The news isnt even bleeping out The Mayor's curse words.. GOD that was awesome to hear somone with that much power to tell it like it is.
TOM
He quit his 400k a year job to become mayor and make 100k.
He has a cale exec, and is just a normal US citizen standing up to currupt politics in new orleans.
THAT is why he tells it like it is, its because he is not a politician. His credentials are impressive, and he is a smart man.
He's not a politician, not really. Nagin, 49, was a cable TV executive at Cox Communications, a man with no previous political experience, when he beat out 14 candidates to win election as mayor in 2002. Back then, he was a fresh face in New Orleans politics, a young guy with a shaved head who promised to clean up a corrupt city.
"The mayor is a very confident, very levelheaded person," says Hutchinson. "He's not one to react on a personal level. He's not panicky."
"He stays very calm under fire, and he stays very focused," City Council member Jackie Clarkson, mother of actress Patricia Clarkson, told the AP. "Through all the demands coming at him from different directions, he's stayed very focused on human life."
Nagin was born in 1956 in New Orleans's Charity Hospital, one of the hospitals that have now run out of food and water and been besieged by looters. His mother worked at a lunch counter in a Kmart. His father worked two jobs -- a fabric cutter in a clothing factory by day, a custodian at City Hall at night.
A hotshot pitcher in high school, Nagin went to Tuskegee University on a scholarship, graduating in 1978 with an accounting degree. He worked for General Motors in Detroit, then for financial services companies in Los Angeles and Dallas. In 1982 he married a childhood friend, Seletha Smith. Three years later, Nagin was hired by Cox and he and Seletha returned to New Orleans, where they raised two sons, Jeremy and Jarin, and a daughter, Tianna. He was making about $400,000 a year when he was elected mayor, a job that paid $110,000.
very humble way to achieve success.
his dad was janitor in city hall, now his son is mayor.
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