Just my opinion:
1. The evacuees of New Orleans and all surrounding parishes, along with the rest of the
state of Louisiana should begin a petition to present to the legislature of Louisiana to
begin impeachment proceedings against the Mayor Nagin of New Orleans and Governor Kathleen
Blanco. With enough signatures the Legislature can impeach them both for negligence in
causing the deaths of hundreds of Louisiana residents. On Friday night before the storm
hit Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling
Nagin and Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New
Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA buoy
240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was destroyed.
2. After 9-11 we spent a lot of money setting up Homeland Security. This Agency is
supposed to be in charge of the security of the people and assets of the United States.
We need to make THEM the first people to act in any disaster whether man-made or natural.
There are people trained in every county and parish in the nation to do this very thing.
It would have been the same thing if some foreign nation had dropped a bomb on the Central
Gulf Coast of the United States. Because of the way the laws are presently written,
thousands of people were placed in danger because of the negligence of the above named
politicians to act in a timely manner. I know in our county, which was also declared a
disaster area, though we had MUCH less damage, our Director of Homeland Security took over
and with his well trained Fire Chiefs, every thing ran very smoothly and food, water, ice,
generators, and shelters were quickly and efficiently distributed to all who needed it.
Ann Allen Geoghegan
PC for Morehouse, Red River and The Carrolls
CC for Harrison, Jefferson, & Claiborne in MS
MS Archives Director
Born and raised in Baton Rouge and resident of
Louisiana for 47 years before retiring to MS.