This from the NY Post in it's entirety.
January 9, 2006 -- "Where's Ray?
That's what participants of The Wall Street Project were wondering yesterday about New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who said he'd attend as a special guest.
"We all went down [to New Orleans] in support of him," said Rev. Al Sharpton. "I was there. Rev. [Jesse] Jackson was there. We don't know why he's [Nagin's] not [here]. We don't want to speculate on why . . . He confirmed. I know that."
The Wall Street Project, a Manhattan economic-empowerment summit, kicked off yesterday with a session on Gulf Coast reconstruction.
Jackson, who founded the annual summit along with his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in 1997, said he spoke with Nagin last week but hadn't heard from the mayor since, adding, "I hope to remain in communication with him."
A message left at Nagin's press office was not returned yesterday.
About a dozen evacuees, still living in city hotels, were allowed into a press conference and working session of the summit in Midtown yesterday. Some said they had been hoping to ask Nagin about the future of the Crescent City."
The biggest African American honchos in the country come a callin' and Ray is AWOL. Sounds about right.
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