Ray the Cable Guy

Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans. Nagin was a member of the Republican party (supported GW) and only switched to Democrat in 2002 when he filed to run as candidate for NO mayor. His campaign was self-financed, after a career as a manager at Cox Communications (cable company).

On September 1st Nagin made the impassioned plea : ... "Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country."

Four days later (Sept.5) and a reminder as to who owns his loyalty, Ray the cable guy recovered his budding political career when he placed blame at Governor Blanco's feet. Nagin stated : "Look, I've gotten promises to -- I can't stand anymore promises. I don't want to hear anymore promises. I want to see stuff done. And that's why I'm so happy that the president came down here, because I think they were feeding him a line of bull also. And they were telling him things weren't as bad as it was." The "they" in this case being Governor Blanco who, with more political savvy, knew the correct thing to say, like hey Ray why didn't you use all those empty school buses to evacuate?

But maybe it was all the stress because on the 3rd Mayor Ray told CNN the "CIA would wipe him out" after his criticism of President Bush and the Federal Government in response to Hurricane Katrina.

Let's fund a study, kiss kiss makeup, and declare it was a "communications gap." Yea, that'll work.