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MR-GO GOT TO GO speaks out against John Koerner, III & Ray Nagin's policy to keep MR-GO open

May 6, 2006 - Mayor Ray Nagin, unfortunately for New Orleans, is committed to keeping MR-GO open. “The channel is a disaster, and it has been since it was built. But now we’re stuck with it, so you just have to deal with what you’ve got”, said John Koerner, III, a New Orleans businessman who was Chairman of the Flood Protection Subcommittee for Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission. So, this original 600 ft. wide channel - now 2,000 feet wide - that has gobbled up 27,000 acres of flood buffer wetlands is to remain open because John Koerner, III, a New Orleans businessman and a voice for Nagin’s corporate allies, says so? Well, MR-GO GOT TO GO says hogwash to you Nagin-Koerner. If New Orleans has even an inch of hope, the growing monster MR-GO has got to go.

And any politician who says otherwise has got to go. MR-GO GOT TO GO joins with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation and the many other sensible, sane groups and individuals in this community that say MR-GO has got to go. You can armor all the levees you want. You can buy all the rebuild-rebirth flags you want and stick them everywhere. But unless MR-GO is closed, this community is doomed. Any politician voicing the opposite of this proposal does not represent the citizens and children of New Orleans.

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