March 21st, 2006
From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Almost seven months after Hurricane Katrina, the Nagin administration still dickers over details of a contract that would gradually rid the cityscape of these vehicular eyesores — at a cost of $23 million over another six months.
Which makes it of more than passing interest to discover that the largest car crusher east of the Rockies, K&L Auto Crushers of Tyler, Texas, offered in October to do the job in 15 weeks and actually pay the city for the privilege of hauling the junk away. How much? How about $100 per flooded car. With an estimated 50,000 vehicles on the street at that time, the city would have netted $5 million, rather than shelling out four times that sum, as it plans to do now.
And Ray Nagin wants to be re-elected mayor? Give me a break!
NO residents should ask themselves if they want to re-elect a politician who would rather waste THEIR tax dollars dealing with a problem instead of welcoming some much-needed income to keep the city running. If they answer “yes” to the above, then they deserve the cesspool of political leadership that has mired the city for decades.
Related: The Nagin administration admits that it willfully violated the Second Amendment:
After denying it for months, the City of New Orleans on Wednesday admitted that it does have a stockpile of firearms seized from private citizens in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
The city even took lawyers to the place where some 1,000 firearms are being stored.
“This is a very significant event,” said attorney Dan Holliday, who represents National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation in an on-going lawsuit seeking to stop the city from seizing privately-owned firearms.
The city’s disclosure came as attorneys for both sides prepared for a court hearing on a motion to hold the city in contempt. (On March 1, The Second Amendment Foundation and the National Rifle Association filed a motion to have New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with an injunction to stop illegal gun confiscations and return all seized firearms to their rightful owners.)
“We’re almost in disbelief,” said Second Amendment Foundation Founder Alan Gottlieb on Wednesday. “For months, the city has maintained it did not have any guns in its possession that had been taken from people following the hurricane. Now our attorneys have seen the proof that New Orleans was less than honest with the court.”
Not only should Nagin be thrown out of office, NO residents should run him out of town on a rail.
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