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 [Others who went out of their way to offer help were turned down, such as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who told reporters his city had offered emergency, medical and technical help as early as last Sunday to FEMA but was turned down. Only a single tank truck was requested, Daley said. Red tape kept the American Ambulance Association from sending 300 emergency vehicles from Florida to the flood zone, according to former senator John Breaux (D-La.) They were told to get permission from the General Services Administration.] GSA said they had to have FEMA ask for it, ... As a result they weren't sent.

 [In 1964, Jesse Jackson turned down a summer toll-collecting job offer from Mayor Richard J. Daley to work for John H. Johnson as a salesman.] He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores, ... Where Mayor Daley saw a toll collector, Mr. Johnson saw a communicator.
  Jesse Jackson

 As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

 [C HICAGO--In a city that bleeds politics, corruption is just so much elevator music. But lately there's been a noticeable shift as a series of scandals have crept ever closer to the one person--Richard Daley--who seemed untouchable during his 16 years as mayor of the nation's third-largest city. All of a sudden, observers are wondering whether the man once considered Mayor for Life may fall even before the 2007 election.] Daley may be sinking, ... The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

 Forrest served Mayor Daley well twice as chief of staff. And his proudest accomplishment is what he did with the parks. He did it with Mayor Daley's blessing. The mayor told him the parks were broken and needed to be fixed, and he fixed them.

 We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. FEMA considered it permanent repair, not emergency repairs.

 I remember how vocal and passionate Chicago's late Mayor Richard J. Daley was about dreaming when the day would come when businessmen could catch fish from the Chicago River during their lunch hour. Today that dream is true.

 Mike Royko, of course a famous local journalist, in one of his books about Mayor Daley claimed that not only did the mayor not want the expressway going through Bridgeport, but he also wanted to keep a specific divider between the whites and the blacks. Of course the Daley administration at the time denied that and said they wanted to get rid of an inelegant turn in the expressway.

 [The Federal Emergency Management Agency, its top ranks filled by political appointees and its budget hit by deep cuts, seemed unable to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. On the day after the storm, FEMA director Michael Brown met in Biloxi, Miss., with Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and told him not to worry, because FEMA had had lots of hurricane practice in Florida.] I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.

 Thanks to the business-friendly environment Mayor Daley has created, Chicago's business community is thriving. The Mayor's unique vision for the city has provided Chicago with the infrastructure, workforce and quality of life that are crucial to keeping existing companies here and bringing in new ones.

 We've also requested that the state ask FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to participate as well.

 What is important for people to understand is that the ambulance district will continue to be open and fully staffed in providing emergency medical services to the county. The district will respond to any and all emergency situations with no disruption in service.

 Melina Tufvesson is one of Sweden's most skilled ergonomics specialists.

 I like Chicago and Mayor Daley, ... But I love Atlanta. And, in this case, we are the big fish.

 In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

 [With the evacuations firmly underway, recriminations abounded. Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), blamed the city. Mayor Ray Nagin] can order an evacuation, ... the resources to get the poor, elderly or the disabled out.


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