....Dream Dream Dree-eem... New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Said to Be Considering Run for Governor Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana — a move many in this stricken city regard...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2007 11:58 AM
You either hand out money willie-nillie in the aftermath of a natural disaster or you keep track of where it's going and get tarred with the 'racist, class warrior' brush. In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 6, 2007 09:07 AM
...that would make Tony Soprano proud. Only it's not Newark ~ it's New Orleans, Nagin and another taxpayer mugging. Now, budda bing ~ follow the bouncing garbage truck carefully, cher. New Orleans officials traded a zoning waiver needed by Waste...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 23, 2007 10:44 PM
...or a Sadder one. Police plan to set up checkpoints beginning Wednesday to help curb a crime wave that has claimed nine lives since the start of 2007, Mayor Ray Nagin said, stopping short of imposing a curfew on this...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 10, 2007 10:23 AM
...is one of my favorite commenting 'handles'. "But ths", you ask,"Tres true and hilarious as that is, why you bring it up, cher?" Well, truth is stranger than fiction, these days. Like, given to hyperventing hyperbole that he is, I'm...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 8, 2007 10:39 AM
...has his own blog at the ABC site and it often has little gems in it. (Plus he just seems like a really decent guy ~ that helps.) One caught my eye today, unfortunately illustrating the point of my Andrew...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 21, 2006 10:41 AM
Excuse me? New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Friday blamed racism and government bureaucracy for hamstringing his city's ability to weather Hurricane Katrina and recover from the disaster that struck the Gulf Coast nearly a year ago. In remarks to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 19, 2006 05:59 AM
..."you voted for him." Experts excoriate recovery leaders Nagin, council are failing N.O., they say Without a citywide rebuilding plan or a central agency in charge of redevelopment, New Orleans is likely to squander its opportunity to make a strong...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 3, 2006 01:22 PM
It's so sexy, snappy and succinct! A new book about the Katrina catastrophe paints a portrait of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as a clueless, collapsing coward who hid out after the hurricane in a high-rise hotel - and had...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 4, 2006 10:14 AM
Get The F@$# Out NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin unveiled a new evacuation strategy for New Orleans on Tuesday that relies more on buses and trains and eliminates the Superdome and Convention Center as shelters.* “There will be no...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on May 2, 2006 03:23 PM
...Just 'cos a train may come through: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- All New Orleans residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina should be allowed to rebuild if they choose, and the city will not stand in...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on March 21, 2006 10:51 AM
Who'd a'thunk it? PARIS, France (AP) -- A French newspaper on Wednesday republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused uproar in the Muslim world when they were printed in a Danish daily, saying that religious dogma has no place...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on February 2, 2006 12:10 AM
When it rains, it pours. (Anderson) COOPER: Sean, thanks for that. It was here on the program that we expected to speak with Mayor Nagin, even though getting the mayor to come on the program is only a little easier...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2006 10:20 AM
...until it hits you in the wallet. THEN it's not so funny anymore. The impact of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's controversial comments on Martin Luther King Day landed squarely on the shoulders of local tourism officials Wednesday, one day...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on January 19, 2006 10:16 AM
Mayor Ray Nagin is weighing in on the matter. He wants to know "How do I ensure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers?" Hoards of MEXICANS?! God forbid. (That sounds ~ dare I say ~ vaguely RACIST.)...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on October 7, 2005 02:35 PM
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 29, 2005 09:30 AM
Today's warm fuzzy. New Orleans police chief resigning Move follows disclosure that many officers left posts during Katrina UPDATE: The Gateway Pundit has put the 'oh, SO did NOT happen' events noted below, Katrina BS-wise, in order. (He's so much...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 04:08 PM
Updating our Katrina coverage: The LA Times, of all publications, is jumping into this. Are they channeling Pete King? Other stories that didn't get out... Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron, who headed security at the Superdome, said that for...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 27, 2005 12:52 PM
Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated 6 bodies found at Dome; 4 at Convention Center In interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Compass reported rapes of "babies," and Mayor Ray Nagin spoke of "hundreds of armed gang...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 26, 2005 09:11 AM
...needs to scurry back to his cot in Dick Cheney's Secret Location. You know, like where he hid out as the city flooded? NEW ORLEANS - Residents began trickling back Monday as part of a plan by the mayor to...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 19, 2005 11:31 AM
Mayor, Governor at Odds Over Evacuation NEW ORLEANS —Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) seemed at odds with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (search ) Wednesday, hours after the mayor ordered the mandatory evacuation of the crippled Crescent City by force...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2005 11:02 PM
What we've said, for days now. I'm not bitter. Just feeling our little blog has been validated and vindicated. (As walkie-talkie size operations go.) UPDATE (BUMP): He's joined by Jesse Jackson, who said the squalor in New Orleans "looks like...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 7, 2005 11:58 AM
Badly. Residents with cars took to the highways. Others wondered what to do. "They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57, said at the time. "If I can't walk it or get...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 5, 2005 09:23 AM
Has anyone SEEN this man? Call 1-888-TUF-LUCK the second you do. People are lookin' for him. UPDATE: Well, the loser just surfaced in a CNN interview about 2 minutes ago. He was explaining how he'd sat on Air Force One...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 3, 2005 11:01 AM
Pathetic. Incompetent. Ineffectual. Woefully unprepared. Sorry, weak ass, finger pointing losers. MSM is seeing a chance to whack away at the Bush administration, while ignoring the responsibilities the Mayor of New Orleans and Governor of LA had to their citizens....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on September 2, 2005 12:35 AM
That the governor of Louisiana has NOT declared Martial Law in New Orleans? UPDATE: Well I'll be damned. The mayor JUST DID, at 7:32 local time TONIGHT. WTF was his first CLUE he had a problem??? 7:32 P.M. - N.O....
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 10:10 PM
1:20 P.M. - (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin says at least hundreds of people are dead -- maybe thousands -- in New Orleans. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and others dead in attics,...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 31, 2005 03:15 PM
There's an awful lot of emotion ~ anger, suffering, hopes and dreams, realized and not ~ in that word. We're watching it play out across the news channels, talk shows, newspapers and blogs, and everyone's got an opinion on why...
Posted in The Coalition of the Swilling on August 17, 2005 12:41 PM