Horne, Jed - Breach of Faith; Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City (2006) by Jed Horne

Author:Jed Horne [Horne, Jed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

IN THE DAYS OF DRIFT AND PETULANCE THAT FOLLOWED THE STORM, IT WAS EASY

to forget that New Orleans's city charter vested fairly hefty powers in the mayor--far more power than a fractious city council ever seemed to muster. That is, unless it was a matter of zoning variances, and the customer who REVERSAL OF FORTUNE + 205

sought to overturn the planning commission had given generously to the in- cumbent council member's campaign. But as Nagin mused on the ruin of New Orleans and the city's prospects for recovery, he was, in effect, a mayor without much of a government to command. Days earlier, he had laid off most of the city's workforce, twenty-four hundred people, including virtu- ally all office clerks and functionaries, the grease that kept bureaucracy moving. The layoffs were a horrible moment for Nagin but not a difficult de- cision. He was rapidly running out of money to meet payroll. And there was always the chance that drastic, even suicidal, gestures by local government would pluck at the heartstrings of federal officials, Bush among them, and that the money would be rushed to the scene of their greatest disgrace.

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