Posted on 08/26/2008 4:58:28 AM PDT by driftdiver
Some are questioning whether a top city leader showed favoritism when he ordered crews to help a "single woman" cope during the storm. That single woman was U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D- Jacksonville.
During the height of Tropical Storm Fay, when many Jacksonville residents were trying to keep rising water out of their homes or dealing with fallen trees and power lines, the city sent a public works crew to put sandbags around the Brown's home along the Trout River.
Brown denied getting special treatment, telling Channel 4 that she's like any other citizen who had an emergency. She said that when her roof caved in and water flooded her home, she called the city for help.
"I had to call and call and call, just like anybody else," Brown told Channel 4's Diane Cho. "I had to call several times before I got anybody."
(Excerpt) Read more at news4jax.com ...
A video of the Congress critters reaction to abuse of power charges is here - http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=160873
LOL...this is reminiscent of the special National Guard mission during Katrina to get William Jefferson (D-LA) to his house so he could get his papers and “valuables.” Since the FBI later found $90,000 of bribe money in his freezer at his D.C. residence, one can see why he was concerned about his valuables and felt free to commandeer the National Guard for his personal use.
That’s just one of the perks for Black Democrats.
Looks like a sandbag to me.
If you watch the video the reporter actually did a good job of going after her. Congress critter was quite angry at being on the news and charged with abusing her power.
Just think she could have hired a bunch of illegals and saved a ton of money.
does a hurricane blow?
Still think that government is the answer?? This government is badly broken and this story about political elites scratching each others backs is just more proof.
The Founding Fathers never intended our elected representatives to be “more equal” than the rest of us.
These are OUR tax dollars at work, coddling members of the political elite.
I live in Florida. I could call for a year and the city wouldn’t send out crews to sandbag my home. Sometimes they will give you sandbags but you generally have to go down and fill them yourself and then cart them home. Oh and the limit around here is 10 bags per person.
Representative Brown told First Coast News she still stands behind her comments that ignited a firestorm in Washington.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives censured Brown after a shouting match on the House floor Thursday night.
The argument started during a debate over HR-4818. The bill would provide international monitoring of the November presidential election. Congress has been considering an outside monitor due to all the confusion over the last election, and the “hanging chads” in Florida.
Representative Brown said, “I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d’etat. We need to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. Over and over again after the election when you stole the election, you came back here and said get over it. No we’re not going to get over it and we want verification from the world.”
Don’t mess with “Big Mamma!”
Let her get her sandbags from 'the world'.
Don't be showing no disrespeck
I live in Jax, and she is now refusing to pay the bill, saying that she “didn’t ask for no sandbags.”
She demands special treatment all the time. I just hope that I’m there one day when she does one of her line cutting, bow before me stunts. I’ll light her up.
LOL!!! I would not dream of it!
Here is Corrinne opposing the surge. Bring a barf bag and a translator. I particularly love her sophisticated graphics toward the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i4NOBUr4aU
'nuff said.
Don’t worry,JOE,your property tax increase next year will notbe related to your talking to the media.
Why do you sandbag a house with no roof?
5 minutes of listening to that scold?
Who could stand it?
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