Reply #7: He's definitely a cool customer [View All]

[Don Claybrook]

I've been listening to him on the wdsu feed. As the poster above says, he's very angry, but he's also very professional, competent. He has a plan, he's in charge, and he's telling the "chiefs" (federal stooges, imo) to back off. The lack of the sandbags completely changed the calculus of the whole thing, but the mayor reassessed the thing on the spot and stated that the sandbag fuckup will add 4 weeks to the water removal procedure. Moreover, he downplayed the looting, batting down a reporter's question about whether some of the fires may have been caused by looters. It sounds like this is the guy you want on your side when it all goes to hell. And it has.

Grace under pressure.