Clarence Ray Nagin Jr., also known as C. Ray Nagin , is an American former politician and convicted felon who was the 60th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Nagin was first elected as mayor in March 2002. He was re-elected in 2006 when the election was held with at least two-thirds of New Orleans citizens still displaced after Katrina struck. Term-limited by law, he left office on May 3, 2010.
After leaving office, Nagin founded CRN Initiatives LLC, a firm that focuses on emergency preparedness, green energy product development, publishing, and public speaking. He wrote and self-published Katrina Secrets: Storms after the Storms.In 2014, Nagin was convicted on twenty of twenty-one charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering related to bribes from city contractors before and after Katrina and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
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“I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.”
Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
2005
“This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.”
Speech after making into run off for mayor, April 23, 2006. http://cbs4boston.com/katrina/hurricanekatrina_story_112152722.html
2006
Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service, quoted in Hurricanes May Be God's Punishment, Mayor Says http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/17/nation/na-nagin17, Los Anegles Times, 17 January 2007
2006
2005, Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL (2005)
Response to a reporters question addressing the length of the Katrina rebuilding efforts http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210604,00.html (August 2006)
2006
Further explaining the previous remarks. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/
2006
Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/
2006
“They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.”
2005, Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL (2005)
Responding to a TV reporter's question about the murder rate http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/nagin_calls_nos_dangerous_imag.html (August 2007)
2007
Discussing two brothers suspected in 14 murders who were found shot to death, quoted in Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `brand' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001649.html, Washington Post, 10 August 2007
2007
Explaining the previous remarks. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4622038.stm
2006
“There's way too many frickin' -- excuse me -- cooks in the kitchen.”
Interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, August 31, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.levees/index.html
2005
“They thinking small, man, and this is a major, major deal.”
2005, Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL (2005)
“I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.”
Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9240461/
2005
Attributed by Mayors Climate Protection Agreement site http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/climate/quotes.htm
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Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden
2005
