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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14578)3/22/2006 3:06:54 AM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (22) of 35834
 
Just when you think old school-bus Nagin can’t be anymore incompetent

By Jerry on Government Incompetence
Common Sense and Wonder

New Orleans rejected company’s offer to remove junked cars

(AP) NEW ORLEANS A Texas company says it offered to pay this city to take tens of thousands of flooded cars off the streets and Mayor Ray Nagin refused the offer.

K-and-L Auto Crushers of Tyler, Texas, a major car crushing company, offered in October to rid the city of its flooded cars and pay 100 dollars per flooded car. That’s according to K-and-L’s Dan Simpson.

He says the city held back because it was apparently concerned that it did not have the legal right to remove the abandoned cars.

Nagin’s press office, most of whom had traveled with him to Atlanta for a mayoral forum, did not immediately respond to an e-mail request seeking comment on K-and-L’s offer.

But the Nagin administration is working on a contract to rid the cityscape of the cars at a cost of 23 (m) million dollars over another six months.

Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into an auto junkyard and the flooded cars are still everywhere. With an estimated 50-thousand vehicles on the street in October, the city would have netted five (m) million dollars if the K-and-L offer had panned out.

The number of junkers on city streets has fallen since then to somewhere between 25-thousand and 30-thousand, as insurance companies remove cars they’ve totaled out.

Tulane Law professor Vernon Palmer said the city has the legal right to remove the abandoned cars. Palmer cited a city ordinance that was passed to cope with a glut of abandoned cars.

commonsensewonder.com
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