Nagin Takes Swipe at NYC 9-11 Rebuilding
Ray Nagin Criticizes Delays in World Trade Center Redevelopment During '60 Minutes' Interview

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin speaks during the opening of a center in Houston Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, dedicated to helping New Orleans residents displaced by last year's Hurricane Katrina return home. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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NEW YORK Aug 24, 2006 (AP)— New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when confronted in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

During the "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS.

The program is scheduled to air Sunday night. Text and a video clip from the Nagin piece were posted on CBS' Web site Thursday.

The chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency created to oversee the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan, said that tremendous progress has been made in lower Manhattan, with the Freedom Tower, a transportation hub and a memorial to the nearly 3,000 attack victims under construction.

"We understand how difficult rebuilding a city after such destruction can be," chairman Kevin Rampe said in a statement.

Nagin, known for his blunt style, is not the first to compare the two cities. New Orleans residents frequently complain that the federal government's response after Katrina has been far more sluggish than it was after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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8/25/2006 4:38:44 AM

8/25/2006 8:40:00 AM

i hope ray nagin drowns in a sewer

8/25/2006 8:44:16 AM

^yeah...and those people down in NO were dumb enough to re-elect him...

8/25/2006 8:55:32 AM

I'd vote for W a third time if I could!

8/25/2006 12:37:05 PM

see this is why we shouldnt pay to rebuild N.O.

td 5 is going to fuck shit up

8/25/2006 1:09:52 PM

I didn't realize there's a new skyscraper standing at Ground Zero.

8/25/2006 1:33:19 PM

seriously...i mean how long does it take to clean the mangled wreckaged of a bunch of skyscrapers and then build some other ones...seriuosly

8/25/2006 1:46:53 PM

I don't think they've even decided on a design for the new structure.

8/25/2006 1:48:33 PM

and also...its obviuosly much more important to build some new buidlings than to ...ya know...like....rebuild a city

8/25/2006 1:50:20 PM

ellipses

8/25/2006 2:36:00 PM

Quote :

"During the "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS."

Because the WTC could be rebuilt by one guy in a tow truck on a saturday afternoon.

8/25/2006 2:38:24 PM

Ray Nagin, Mayor of Ad Hominem

To be fair though, it takes a lot of time to make all the chocolate bricks needed to build a chocolate city.

8/25/2006 2:44:28 PM

^Well the summer was sure to slow the process down. I expect we will see more progress during the winter months.

8/25/2006 3:12:19 PM

um the last time i checked NO was still completely fucked up and shitty in some parts, so i really don't understand where Nagin thinks he can say something like that

8/25/2006 4:47:15 PM

^He was responding to criticisms of NO.

"It's taking a while for y'all to get things going in NO, huh, Nagin?"

"Yeah, but look at NYC!!!"

8/25/2006 4:58:55 PM

Nagin is just great....he is a classic moron

he did nothing for NO before Katrina...and he is doing little for NO after it

but its ok because there is still no skyscraper in NY!!!!

8/25/2006 5:04:46 PM

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"^Well the summer was sure to slow the process down. I expect we will see more progress during the winter months."

Winnar.

Also, what a dumb thread. These two things aren't exactly the same. I don't even fathom the comparison.

8/25/2006 5:12:27 PM

^ I've been told that no two things are exactly the same.

8/25/2006 5:30:41 PM

^^ nagin's the one that brought up the comparison, so this thread is here to call him an idiot.

8/25/2006 7:26:22 PM

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"Nagin is just great....he is a classic moron he did nothing for NO before Katrina...and he is doing little for NO after it but its ok because there is still no skyscraper in NY!!!!"

Are you still trying to pin the Bush administration's incompetence on him?

8/25/2006 7:45:10 PM

Hey.

Bush isn't the only one that can try and gain political power from 9/11.

8/25/2006 8:06:02 PM

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"Because the WTC could be rebuilt by one guy in a tow truck on a saturday afternoon."

And cars move themselves.

8/26/2006 10:12:29 PM

generally flood damage fucks that up

8/26/2006 10:47:25 PM

the equivelent of saying

"hey look over there!"

8/26/2006 10:53:03 PM

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"Are you still trying to pin the Bush administration's incompetence on him?"

again pryderi...stop being your typical idiot liberal self...

im said nothing about president bush's incompetance in that situation...which is obvious....this thread is about the pathetic mayor of new orleans....who is more incompetant than anyone else in this particular situation...he did not help NO before the flood nor has he done very much for anyone since then

if you would stop existing only to hate BWG you have read my comments correctly

8/26/2006 11:22:15 PM

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" pathetic mayor of new orleans....who is more incompetant than anyone else in this particular situation...he did not help NO before the flood nor has he done very much for anyone since then "

Mind backing up your generalizations with some documentation on Nagin's incompetence?

8/27/2006 1:17:51 AM

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"again pryderi...stop being your typical idiot liberal self.."

Being Republican and disliking Bush are not mutually exclusive.

8/27/2006 1:36:01 AM

that is crazy talk. bush is everything a small government conservative would want.

8/27/2006 2:40:43 AM

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"I didn't realize there's a new skyscraper standing at Ground Zero."

Are you being serious of sarcastic? B/c a new 55 story building opened up a few months ago.

They have decided on a design for the Freedom tower. They technically broke ground a few months back on it, but were then slowed down by some construction union going on strike (holy fuck!). And there's the issue of whether the involved parties can afford the billions required, not to mention the insurance Co for the WTC hasn't paid up yet.

Oh yeah, and the Deuscheland building still hasn't been demolished yet. Due to toxins, etc. they have to dismantle the building piece by piece instead of blowing it up. fucking ridiculous.

8/29/2006 1:55:13 PM

does anybody listen to Ray Nagin?

8/29/2006 2:00:49 PM

apparently the media doesn't understand sarcasm.

8/29/2006 3:31:13 PM

I don't know why they voted that idiot back in


well.. nevermind

I do know


which is sad

HE SUCKS, BUT AT LEAST HE'S BLACK AND FEELS OUR PAIN

just like any politician, he doesn't give a fuck about your poor black ass

8/29/2006 6:01:31 PM