New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is calling on former residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to claim their old city addresses in next year's census, drawing criticism for trying to circumvent rules for winning federal funds.
The mayor -- encouraged that New Orleans has thrown off its post-Katrina malaise to become the U.S.'s fastest-growing big city by percentage -- wants the U.S. Census Bureau to grant an exception for its former residents, currently living elsewhere, who want to rebuild homes in New Orleans.
There's one problem: The mayor's plan is illegal, according to the Census Bureau. Federal law requires the Census Bureau to count all U.S. residents where they reside as of April 1, 2010, when the nationwide tally will begin.
"Any individual who does something like that is going to hurt the place where they are living, and hurt New Orleans," said Katherine Smith, a Census Bureau spokeswoman.
Does anyone seriously believe that Nagin gives a damn about the residents of New Orleans?
This is the same man that let hundreds of school busses sit in parking lots while the city residents were struggling to evacuate ahead of Katrina.
Good thing they keep electing him.
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Not anymore. Thank the gods for term limits.
Holy-#! If he's asking ACORN to deliver, they probably will. Residents of NO are simply pawns to Nagin's hubris.
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