From: "Gary Britt" 

Jane, thanks for that insight.  Does your cousin work in government
somehow. How was he aware of these things?

It does seem that a significant part of the blame is on the Governor of
Lousiana.  I haven't figured out yet why her foot dragging on several
things seemed like a good idea to her, but there is some crazy and
incompetent reason for it I'm sure.

Gary

"JaneL"  wrote in message
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> "Robert G Lewis" wrote:
>
> > Strange that NewsMax is the only source. Not even on CNN where they
> > supposedly got the information from.
> >
> > of course this isn't the first time I have been totally unable to verify
> > something that NewsMax has 'quoted'.
> >
>
> My cousin is now in SC, and I had dinner with him tonight.  I asked him
who,
> in his opinion as a NOLA resident, was at fault - FEMA or the local
> government.  My cousin is extremely white, a bit prejudiced against
blacks,
> and dislikes most politicians, yet his response was "Well, it sure wasn't
> the Mayor because he did everything he could".  He went on to tell me that
> on Saturday night the Mayor went on the local TV stations to say that he
did
> not have the state's approval to declare a mandatory evacuation and to
> proceed accordingly but that if he could he would tell everyone to get out
> immediately because it was going to be bad.  My cousin did not have very
> flattering things to say about the Governor and talked about her
> foot-dragging about requesting the federal help and her telling Bush to
let
> her think it over for 24 hours while people suffered and died.
>
>

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