re: So Mitch Landrieu Warns Of Harvey Flooding Because City's Pumps Aren't Ready

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I'm most certainly not treating it as an either/or issue. Everyone else is.

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I think you're misinterpreting what most are saying. They don't necessarily mean (at least I don't) that if the statues wouldn't have come down, the pumps would have been fixed.

It's simply pointing to the city's misappropriation of funds.

Now that the pumps have to be fixed, well it would've been nice to have that money, especially when Mitch says "oh we have to suspend other projects around the city to fix these pumps."

Eta: and not to mention apparently this was known quite some time ago, yet the city chose to ignore it and focus on the much more important statues. Again, it's about priorities.