re: NOLA Monuments: Crane company says city never hired it to move them

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village idiot

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toddler

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Somebody's bringing it today.

(Can you just not think of anything to add, so that's why you're doing this?)

Not to mention, no real vendor GAS about working for the City of New Orleans under normal circumstances, since getting paid always involves drama.

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(Can you just not think of anything to add, so that's why you're doing this

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You feel that the people that those statues represent should be defined by one episode in their lives frick anything else they've done or accomplished. Yet you are concerned about my contribution to the thread.

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Are there any minority-owned crane companies that can handle a multi-million dollar (and extremely important) monument removal

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Yeah. Right. I bet that's a long list.

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True or not, some posters are pulling for such violence...over statues.

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It's disgust over the whole sad affair. We have now have a controversy created from thin air by the mayor who swore public money wouldn't be involved, and now it looks like piblic money will have to be used to solve an issue that didn't exist until he created it. In a cash strapped city that can't afford adequate police. Meanwhile, it does nothing to heal any racial divide that exists. It merely divides. Just as Nagin became known for his racial Chocolate City rant, this is what Mitch will be remembered for. Not to mention the slippery slope of tearing down any artwork/statue/street name/building name/anything that offends anyone. While a reasonable case can be made that these confederate statues do not belong on public property, one wonders what will be next. History is made by people, and people are imperfect.

Remember when the Taliban destroyed ancient statues Bc it conflicted with their religious views? They were ridiculed. But how far away are we from that route today in the US? Hell, the Taliban did it for religious purposes which frankly is a better reason than vague assertions of being "offended".

Most folks just want the governments to focus on meaningful issues, and if everyone would simply act civil, there won't be a need to erase every reminder of the past. People will get along and prosper.

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Most people I guarantee couldn't tell you who the statues depicted or where they were all located except for the Lee Circle one.

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I bet most still can't but someone told them they should be offended.

I'm sure some minority owned crane company will step up and do the work

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I truly don't care if they come down or not. I don't live in NOLA. And last time I was there, I didn't go see them. I just don't understand how it can rile someone up so when - through legitimate local governance means (the supposed holy grail of governance) - it's been determined that they be removed. Seriously. It's fricking statues.

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Most of these are historical landmarks which are also architectural gems. Lee Circle is an iconic piece of art in New Orleans.

This is a rigging contractors job and no rigging/ crane contractor in this state or the gulf south is going to touch it. Whoever comes in from out of state will never get a sniff on a project in this state ever again. Even outside of the politics of it, they suck to get paid.

I can see some monkey business of getting somone on board and "qualified" to go in and tear the stuff up getting it out in the process. Maybe the city even buying their own crane and self performing with this idiot supervising.

This would be amazing if every single company tells mitch to frick himself in his pc arse and they have no way of getting them down