Al Gore arranges air transport for evacuees to his home state

[Cocoa]

a great photo of him was posted earlier on DU, this thread is basically a dupe, but the search feature is off so here the story is again. (I'd love if someone found that great pic).

http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/216543

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Rob Webb, director of Rural/Metro Ambulance Service in Blount County, said hospital patients and evacuees flown into Knoxville from New Orleans Saturday showed their gratitude as they left the plane.

``I welcomed them to Tennessee, told them they were going to be taken care of in a nice hospital,'' Webb said.

An American Airlines plane arrived at McGhee Tyson Airport at 3:10 p.m. Saturday with about 130 people from New Orleans.

Former Vice President Al Gore was on the plane, helping patients. He did not grant interviews to reporters Saturday.

``My understanding was that he made this happen, that he actually arranged for this aircraft,'' Webb said.

[AX10]

1. KICK

Now, that's a PRESIDENT!

[Cocoa]

2. maybe Rehnquist died of shame

that's what I'll always remember Rehnquist for. :mad:

[ailsagirl]

3. The real President, Al Gore, does his usual good stuff

No surprise here-- he's a man of integrity-- he's the real
President-- the man we elected in 2000.

[KaryninMiami]

4. We sure missed out on having a terrific man as President

Imagine how different our lives would be today! The most depressing part is that he actually did win the election.

[AlGore-08.com]

5. These are the two that I've seen, plus the article that covers this best

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4054083,00.html

Haven from fury Mercy Flight Brings Evacuees to ET

Gore accompanies about 140 arrivals from New Orleans but declines to take credit

By ROBERT WILSON

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About 140 people - mostly elderly and infirm - arrived Saturday at McGhee Tyson Airport on a chartered mercy flight from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, welcomed to East Tennessee by a bright sun and a host of medical professionals straining at the reins to help their fellow human beings without regard to whether they were on the clock.

The displaced hurricane victims came to Tennessee on a hastily arranged flight, accompanied by doctors and carrying whatever they had in boxes, bags or, in one case, an old suitcase tied up with rope.

Former Vice President Al Gore arranged the flight and was on board, but he declined to take credit for the airlift, fearing it would be "politicized."

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[Cocoa]

6. thanks!

that's a great article too. People who are interested, use the login [e-mail], password 1111.

[Cha]

8. I like that little picture

down in the corner, too!

You gotta love the undercurrents in this country where people are doing Great things in spite of the Fascist takeover of our government.

[NYC]

9. Maxine Waters is rescuing people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090405Y.shtml

So they've come up with their own plan: to load the remaining residents on buses they've chartered and bring them to England Air Force Base, a shuttered military installation in Alexandria, La.

"My soul wouldn't let me sit and watch this on TV," says Waters, who represents South Central Los Angeles. "I'm just shocked that people have been living for five days, and dying, on the streets of this country. So I came down here, and my friend Cleo Fields came up with this wonderful possibility."

That wonderful possibility, hatched by state Sen. Cleo Fields and the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, is to house the displaced residents at the Air Force base instead of shelters and sports stadiums like the Astrodome, many of which are full anyway. They haven't gotten permission to do that, but that's not stopping them. The black leaders say racism is behind both the late response to the emergency and the dispersal of rescued residents far away from New Orleans.

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I think Oprah has chartered a lot of buses. It just shows that people have to act individually because our federal government has FAILED.

[Rainscents]

11. Wow, that is great story!!!

[Cha]

7. Gore can "make things happen"!

chimp creates death and destruction.

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10. kick

kick

[ourbluenation]

12. Thank you President Gore eom