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New Orleans Mayor puts foot in mouth about WTC

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  1. RocksMillenium

    RocksMillenium Contributing Member

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    I don't know if this has been posted yet, but wow, talk about a serious idiot! Yeah, that hole in the ground probably still has bodies in it from people who were murdered you dumbass!

    New Orleans' mayor criticizes New York's WTC delays

    'You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed'

    NEW YORK (AP) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when confronted in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

    During the CBS "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS.

    The program is scheduled to air Sunday night. Text and a video clip from the Nagin piece were posted on CBS' Web site Thursday.

    The chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency created to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan, said that tremendous progress has been made in lower Manhattan, with the Freedom Tower, a transportation hub and a memorial to the nearly 3,000 attack victims under construction.

    "We understand how difficult rebuilding a city after such destruction can be," chairman Kevin Rampe said in a statement.

    Nagin, known for his blunt style, is not the first to compare the two cities. New Orleans residents frequently complain that the federal government's response after Katrina has been far more sluggish than it was after the September 11 attacks.

     
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    we're talking about it in D&D
     
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    Cool, thanks for the heads up! A moderator could delete this thread if they want.
     
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    Not all of us.
     

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