Ray Nagin is a great mayor for a great city and he doesn't take any ****!

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I am a native of Louisiana (New Orleans). Ray is right! The time for talk is later. Partisan critics and glory hogs shut the **** up! People are dying in one of the biggest crises this country has ever faced! Nobody wants to hear about what you're gooing to do...JUST DO IT! I'm marshaling my resources to help my family and friends back in my home town and I ask others to do the same. Please donate money, blood, clothes, food, medicine, ANYTHING to the Red Cross or the charitable org of your choice! Fellow citizens need all of our help to get back on their feet, mourn their losses, and try to move forward from this awful tragedy. The scope of this is absolutely unimaginable. From New Orleans to Mobile, AL, millions of Americans rich & poor, black & white are suffering and need our help! We can's sit on our *****, the government can't sit on it's ***. We all need to help in any way we can.

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i have to say i am impressed with new orleans mayor ray nagin. he expressed what many of us feel in a radio interview today.

his candor and honesty is greatly appreciated.

peace to those affected by this tragedy.

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Mayor to feds: 'Get off your *****'

(CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.

The following is a transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette's interview with Ray Nagin on Thursday night. Robinette asked the mayor about his conversation with President Bush:

NAGIN: I told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice. And that I have been all around this city, and I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources and we're outmanned in just about every respect.

You know the reason why the looters got out of control? Because we had most of our resources saving people, thousands of people that were stuck in attics, man, old ladies. ... You pull off the doggone ventilator vent and you look down there and they're standing in there in water up to their freaking necks.

And they don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of ******* -- excuse my French everybody in America, but I am ******.

WWL: Did you say to the president of the United States, "I need the military in here"?

NAGIN: I said, "I need everything."

Now, I will tell you this -- and I give the president some credit on this -- he sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done, and his name is [Lt.] Gen. [Russel] Honore.

And he came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving. And he's getting some stuff done.

They ought to give that guy -- if they don't want to give it to me, give him full authority to get the job done, and we can save some people.



WWL: What can we do here?

NAGIN: Keep talking about it.

WWL: We'll do that. What else can we do?

NAGIN: Organize people to write letters and make calls to their congressmen, to the president, to the governor. Flood their doggone offices with requests to do something. This is ridiculous.

I don't want to see anybody do anymore ******* press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can't even count.

Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too doggone late. Now get off your ***** and do something, and let's fix the biggest ******* crisis in the history of this country.

interview transcript at: www.cnn.com