Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Ray Nagin interviewed in the new issue of Essence: "There's been a concerted effort to minimize my accomplishments"
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Essence's Michele Norris has an "Exit Interview" with Hizzoner C. Ray Nagin in the March issue of the magazine. It's brief, but a little doozy it is:
ESSENCE: People in New Orleans are bothered by a sense of corruption hovering over the city. With both the police and technology departments currently under federal investigation, why haven't you done more to combat these problems?NAGIN: There was no corruption under my watch. I've only had one instance where there was a mention about anything corrupt, and that was an indictment, not a conviction, where a former employee may have improperly used a credit card. But if you're talking about the previous administration's indictments, that happened before I got here.
Many more quotable quotes in the interview (including "There's been a concerted effort to minimize my accomplishments"). Pick up the March issue of Essence for the whole thing, or check the magazine's Web site in a week or so (not sure if they'll be posting it online).
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Come on people, everyone knows the Shadow Government controls the local media and the minds of about 95% of New Orleans residents. Give the poor guy a break.
No corruption on his watch? Except for Nagin himself misusing the city credit cards (dinner for his wife on their anniversary) and not following the policies on the books (the excess and misuse of city vehicles). And lets not forget his trip to a sunny beach while New Olreans was under water after Katrina. His fancy hotels and jet setting while the citizens suffer.. His shady back room deals with contractors, and his signing on a tech leader who lied on his application (one call could have cleared that up had someone cared to check it out). And the crime cameras that cost about 6 times what it was supposed to, only to not work and catch only one criminal. Nope, no corruption (and that is not to mention his blatant reverse racism with his chocolate city comments). Nagin is the Joke of the decade in the USA. I long for his departure from office.
Baby'head seems to be using one of those Home Improvement "Impress'er" rulers to measure the size of his, ahem, footprint. Ya'know, where it has 12 Inches marked but its only 6 inches long? As in, "Look! See? I told you it was 12 inches long!"
