Ray Nagin, Mayou New Orleans
No one can accuse New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin of hiding his emotions. During a live TV interview, he told two reporters that he wanted to have "a good one on one" with their boss in the parking lot because of an upcoming report on his work schedule.
Nagin also complained about the "vile, angry people" who comment on blogs. Asked if he's worried about his safety, the mayor said: "If somebody approach me wrong, I’m going to cold *** them. That’s the bottom line. You can come with that foolishness if you want, but you’ll see a side of Ray Nagin that you haven’t seen."
Here's an excerpt from the transcript of Nagin's interview with WWL-TV:
Nagin: My disappointment is the way some in the media are handling me personally … Our local newspaper, for example, had me pointing a gun at the police chief. This got all over the Internet, all over the nation, and is now sitting on the most racist websites in America. Hate groups now have that picture, so now I am personally more at risk and my family is personally more at risk.
And I’m a little upset with this station cause you advertising about the ratings, about what’s getting ready to happen with my schedule, you put my personal schedule out there, I am coming back to the station and me and your news director are going to be outside in the parking lot having a good one on one. You do not put my family at risk.
Eric Paulsen: This was a schedule from last year, though.
Nagin: I don’t care. That schedule has formal stuff on it. It has patterns on it and now you have these Aryan race people focused on me and we've got some mental cases out in this community and you’re getting ready to put my schedule out there. Where are the other elected official’s schedule? Are you going to do a follow up on that? This has gone beyond the point of reasonableness. ... I am sick of this.
USAToday.com
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/combative-no-ma.html
