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Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery --- Nagin
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Jan 25 17:57:09 2006

I didn't object to the way Nagin handled the hurricane (he told everyone to
leave about 20 times, but didn't force anyone out at gunpoint). He was more
proactive than any other mayor regarding evacuation. I blame the governor
for most of the screwups from August to October. But Nagin's comments last
week were just plain gratuitous. The black community had accused him of
being too white, so he threw them a bone by throwing a cheap shot at the
whites. As Trent Lott can tell you, that's a difficult kind of gaff to
overcome. 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Scott
McLoughlin
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:38 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery --- Nagin


Maybe the guy's a turd, but he's been trying to hold together
a desperate and politically difficult situation for some time now. Under
that kind of prolonged and heavy stress, it's hard not to make a few
mistakes and say some things you wish you hadn't. Oh well.

I was up around 5:00 AM (IIRC) when he made his famous impassioned
plea/angry rant phone call to a host on CNN during the height of the crisis.
It was surreal, and maybe a little refreshing given everyday political
culture. He was clearly crying on the phone, the host (can't recall who) was
crying, and when they switched back to a regular news reporter to read the
periodic headlines, she was visibly crying as well.

Trippy stuff.  If I were Nagin, I'd be very, very happy to be rid of the
job.

Scott

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>Yep, he's up for re-election. Inasmuch as 80% of the whites voted for 
>him last time and he just insulted all of them "en masse", I think 
>he'll be a long shot at best (although some real losers are throwing 
>their hat in the ring).
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
>Bill Smith
>Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:41 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery --- Nagin
>
>
>I've worked for a lot of Mayors in Houston over a long time--some were 
>terrible, some fantastic, and most just OK--but by comparison Nagin 
>takes the cake as the most incompetant I've ever witnessed. Is that 
>idiot running for re-election or is he hopefully term-limited? La. 
>could probably use a new Governor also. just my two cents worth.
>   
>  Bill
>
>Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>  I was in the first group allowed back in the city (my house is 150 
>years old, in the Irish Channel and high and dry). People were let back 
>into the city in increments, depending on the condition of their 
>neighborhood. The Lower 9th Ward was the hardest hit, and those people 
>were not allowed back in for months. When they were finally allowed to 
>come back and salvage what they could, they were told that the entire 
>Lower 9th Ward would be bulldozed to the ground (it doesn't have far to 
>go). That set off some legal battles, and things are still sort of 
>gridlocked. Even if people do plan to scrape off their land and 
>rebuild, they cannot get insurance nor can they get water, electricity, 
>gas, phones, etc. It is taking months for reality to set in. The most 
>that has been done is scraping the mud and debris from the streets. I 
>don't know how they plan to get that enormous barge back into the 
>canal.
>
>
>  
>
>>From: Ted Grant
>>Date: 2006/01/25 Wed AM 09:40:41 EST
>>To: Leica Users Group
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW - Week 3 - Jeffery
>>
>>Hi Jeffery,
>>    
>>
>>>To all of you who have commented, thank you much for your moral
>>>support.
>>>I'll try to get as many scenes on film as I can. I have waited too long
>>>      
>>>
>to
>  
>
>>>get started on this. It is fortuitous that nothing down there has
>>>      
>>>
>changed
>  
>
>>>in 5 months.<<<
>>>      
>>>
>>As an outsider I maybe stepping on some folks toes asking my question 
>>regarding your comment:
>>    
>>
>>>>>It is fortuitous that nothing down there has changed in 5
>>>>>months.<<<
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>I realize that this was a disaster of great magnitude, however in the
>>most
>>powerful country in the world, "how come it's still in the same
>>    
>>
>condition?"
>  
>
>>Certainly after 5 months? I don't doubt there's been a great deal 
>>done,
>>    
>>
>but
>  
>
>>your photographs so far look as though the storm happened a few days 
>>ago.
>>
>>Just curious.
>>ted
>>
>>
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>Jeffery
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