Disgust with Mayor inspired Citizen Volunteer Efforts
“Driving past here, it was very depressing,” Discon said. “It really captured a feeling of how the city was not good.”
Discon, who had moved to Mandeville shortly before the storm, said his frustration with the city’s slow pace of recovery came to a head when he was surrounded by the park-turned-wilderness.
“I was driving through the park, going to work. It was hot. At the time, (Mayor Ray) Nagin was mouthing off to the federal government that New Orleans was open for tourism, and that’s what kind of pissed me off .¤.¤. because a simple drive through the park showed that it was not,” he said.
“The grass was like 2 feet high. I would see tourists looking at it. So I just got out and started pulling some weeds.”
Volunteers continue to make a difference in a City that couldn’t or wouldn’t. Please read the whole story.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/volunteer_grasscutters_still_w.html
Evansville needs a band of Mow-Rons to replace or help the band of morons that have let our parks deteriorate. If New Orleans can muster a group of volunteers then so can Evansville if we can get the City government to allow volunteers to be free of the Teamsters oppression.
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