- Fat hospital patient "euthanized" because staff were unable to evacuate him
- "Dammit, Jim, I'm a firefighter, not a P.R. hack!"
- Red tape snares West Virginia National Guard rescue effort: 5 planes return home empty
- "Welcome to Krakow"
- Nursing
home residents left to die, houses will be demolished and incinerated,
and other tales from the "clusterfuck" as reported by an EPA
employee
What can I say?
On a lighter note... is it just me, or did anyone else notice that Gavin Newsom had a bit of a Barbara Bush-style silver-foot-in-mouth moment?
Newsom said midday Wednesday that the 100 available units are vacant because qualified families who have been offered them were worried about the area's crime rate. But both Newsom and Housing Authority Executive Director Gregg Fortner, who grew up in New Orleans, expressed doubt that evacuees, if they came to San Francisco, would find its public housing foreign or frightening.
"Let me tell you this with respect. I've seen where a lot of the people were living before. I'll take West Point and Middle Point," Newsom said.
Fortner and Newsom also said the housing developments in question are getting safer. The homicide rate in the area has dropped significantly, Fortner said.
