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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during its darkest days after Hurricane Katrina, will be thrust back into the spotlight this week when he goes on trial in a corruption case that mushroomed at the end of his eight-year tenure.


Even before the allegations, Nagin's popularity steadily eroded as the city struggled to recover from Katrina's devastation, and he has kept a low profile since leaving office in 2010.


Nagin was living in a Dallas suburb when a grand jury indicted him a year ago on charges he accepted free trips and more than $200,000 in bribes from contractors in exchange for helping them secure lucrative city contracts.


The investigation has already produced convictions or guilty pleas by former Nagin associates who could be key prosecution witnesses at the trial, which is scheduled to start Monday with jury selection.


Nagin's 21-count indictment includes bribery and wire fraud charges, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years and 20 years in prison, respectively.


More than a year before he left office, the Democrat vowed that he would retire from politics at the end of his second term.


In 2006, Nagin famously declared that the slowly repopulating city would be "chocolate" again, playing to black residents' fears that they would get short shrift during the recovery process. After receiving 38 percent of the black vote in 2002, he got 90 percent in 2006, helping him defeat then-Lt. Gov. Landrieu in a runoff.



http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mayor-nagin-trial-bribery-charges-22015505
 
Wow, a pin dropping could be heard from the Liberal left!!!

Nagin was the man most responsible for the post Katrina disaster that occurred and the failure to provide serious disaster preparations resulting in the horrible conditions blacks has to suffer in the Superdome.

But the mainstream media having shed all hints of objectivity and practicing malfeasance, with the help of dishonest Democrat hyper partisans, made Bush the target of their misplaced partisan ire.

But this is the world we live in these days, where Democratic criminal behavior gets a collective yawn from the media but closing a bridge by Republicans in New Jersey is the biggest headline of the year.
 
No, it's pretty much the standard Democrat modus operandi when presented with unflattering facts, isn't it?

I didn't ban evince, The Dude, Rune, Dantès and 1966stang for their willingness to deflect and derail every thread by dragging Bush into it - just for their willingness to deflect and derail every thread...
 
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Chocolate City has finally melted...

Wow, what do you know about that, another black liberal democrat mayor charged with corruption. Maybe he can share a cell with former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick.
 
Nagin isn't ignored when it comes to Katrina. His name has become somewhat synonymous with the local failures & incompetence that occurred during that crisis.

Not suprisingly, since he was a local Mayor & Bush was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Bush gets a little more attention, as well as blame (rightfully, I might add).
 
Thing1 said:
Nagin isn't ignored when it comes to Katrina. His name has become somewhat synonymous with the local failures & incompetence that occurred during that crisis.

Not suprisingly, since he was a local Mayor & Bush was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Bush gets a little more attention, as well as blame (rightfully, I might add).
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So because Sandy victims are still suffering, is that Obamas fault or Christies?
 
Big Money said:
Anything to distract from the charges against another Democrat mayor...you reek of desperation.
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I was merely responding to another poster's contention that Nagin deserved most of the blame for Katrina, and that blame was "misplaced" on Bush.

It wasn't. Bush was as incompetent as a national leader can be during Katrina.
 
I Love America said:
Does Obama own Benghazi? Sandy? Anything?
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Where did Obama come into this discussion? Sure - he owns everything he has done wrong, which is a lot.

I'll clue you up on something. I'm not a water-carrier like you. Obama has been a terrible President, imo, but he wasn't being discussed on this thread.
 
Thing1 said:
Nagin isn't ignored when it comes to Katrina. His name has become somewhat synonymous with the local failures & incompetence that occurred during that crisis.

Not suprisingly, since he was a local Mayor & Bush was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Bush gets a little more attention, as well as blame (rightfully, I might add).
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Do you even have the slightest understanding of the Federal Governments role of disaster relief?

Obviously you don't or you wouldn't make such incredibly stupid claims. You’re probably equally clueless about the fact surrounding this disaster and the Democrat Governors incompetence that compounded the mess made by Nagin.

FEMA responds TO disasters AFTER the event, not before. It is the local Governments responsibility to evacuate, ensure there are adequate facilities and respond to local emergencies.

FEMA could not have done any more than they did nor could Bush have changed the outcome due to the incompetence of the Democrat Governor and Democrat mayor of New Orleans.

What dunces like you don’t get is that the entire Gulf Coast region was a disaster area and in Mississippi, where there was a Republican Governor, you didn’t have these headline issues of gross negligence and incompetence.

What you illustrate is a gullible clueless dupe who has swallowed the media disinformation campaign hook, line and sinker. Yay you!

New Orleans braces for monster hurricane
Crescent City under evacuation; storm may overwhelm levees
Monday, August 29, 2005; Posted: 12:10 a.m. EDT (04:10 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees.
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Bush issues disaster declarations

President Bush announced Sunday that he had issued disaster declarations for Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of southern Florida. The declaration for Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida will allow residents there to apply for federal disaster aid.

"We'll do everything in our power to help the people and communities affected by this storm," he said.

The president urged anyone in the storm's path "to put their own safety and the safety of their families first by moving to safe ground."
Jesse St. Amant, the emergency management chief for Louisiana's southernmost Plaquemines Parish, said nearly 95 percent of the parish's 27,000-plus residents had fled by Sunday afternoon. Those who remained were being told that they are "gambling with their own lives."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina/

This story wasn’t about Bush or FEMA and their responses; it was about the logic of building a major city 70 feet below sea level and expecting manmade levees to prevent the subsequent collapse and disaster that ensued. Only morons blame Bush and the Federal Government response.
 
I don't have much to say on this thread, if the guy is guilty, he should be punished. I don't care if he is a D or a R. It is not a partisan issue to me.
 
The MS comparison is a strawman. Completely different circumstance. I would defy anyone to argue that it's apples to apples w/ what happened in New Orleans w/ the levvies.

The day before Katrina hit, Bush assured local authorities that the feds were ready for anything. They weren't; people were stranded for days. And what happened w/ FEMA is one of the starkest examples of cronyism that you'll ever see in government, on any level.

The proper reaction to all of what happened with Bush, FEMA, the local authorities, et al. should be nothing less than outrage. It's real partisan hackery to continue to try to defend what went on.
 
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