Posted on 09/07/2005 5:27:08 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, Kawana Lloyd or Alex Howe, 202-822-5200, all for Moveon.Org Political Action
News Advisory:
-- Katrina Evacuees to Tell President Bush His Administration Let Them Down
-- Request Meeting with President to Demand Accountability
-- Why Was Federal Funding Cut For Levee Maintenance?
Hurricane Katrina evacuees flew into the nation's capital to tell President Bush to stop blaming local officials for his mistakes and acknowledge that budget cuts and indifference by his administration led to the disaster in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
They intend to ask him why he diverted over 40 percent of federal funding between 2001-2005 away from New Orleans. Hundreds are expected to rally in front of the White House at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday.
"The President of the United States and his appointees let us down," said Christine Mayfield, a New Orleans public school teacher and mother of three who was dislocated and now is staying in North Carolina.
The evacuees are also seeking a meeting with Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the Government Oversight Committee.
According to Rep. Waxman, "the budget of the Corps of Engineers for construction projects in New Orleans district was cut by over 40 percent between 2001 and 2005, apparently to free up funds for the war in Iraq and homeland security projects. In 2004, for the first time in 37 years, the Corps halted all work on the New Orleans levee system."
New Orleans native Michelle Augillard, one of the evacuees, was working toward her Masters degree at the University of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, she is staying with a friend in Houston, trying to pick up the pieces of her life, along with her family. Both Michelle and Christine will appear at the rally.
"It is inhumane to have treated citizens of the United States like we were treated," she said. "
Members of MoveOn.org Political Action are scheduled to hand- deliver thousands of petition signatures to the White House after the rally. The petition says, "President Bush should stop blaming the victims of Hurricane Katrina and get to work helping them."
WHO: Katrina Evacuees and MoveOn members
WHAT: Protest outside the White House in support of Hurricane Victims
WHEN: Thursday, September 8th at 1 p.m.
WHERE: Pennsylvania Avenue NW. In front of the White House. (Metro: Red Line: Farragut North. Blue-Orange Line: Farragut West or McPherson Square)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Excellent Visuals -- Signs reading "Shame" and "Help Hurricane Victims"
Don't answer that.
Just some quick points on the levees.
"By 1998, Louisiana's state government had a $2 billion construction budget, but less than one tenth of one percent of that -- $1.98 million -- was dedicated to levee improvements in the New Orleans area"
And just so you don't glance over that, that's $2 Billion with a "B" and only $1.98 Million with a "M" was spent on the levees.
That means $1,998,020,000 was spent on anything but the levees
And the levees were:
- 90% completed in 1999,
- Not slated to be complete until 2013,
&
- Never designed to withstand over a CAT 3 hurricane.
Ping....
Rent-A-Mob has now become Rent-A-Hurricane Victim.
Where are the murderers and rapists reported in the Superdome?
Have they been arrested? There were plenty of witnesses. Have the raped come forward?
Anybody know anything?
Is there anything the left wont try to exploit and politicize? These people are way off the deep end.
let them protest all they want. Who cares?
I hope they keep it up - by the time the 2006 election rolls around - no democrat will get re-elected.
These people are just from kook-ville.
I remember hearing a news report about MoveOn picking up people from the hurricane area. I wondered what they were up to at the time .. and I guess now we know.
However, they should have taken a clue from Cindy - standing outside the WH and demanding a meeting won't work.
Karl Rove is the real money man behind moveon.
"It is inhumane to have treated citizens of the United States like we were treated," she said. "
She's in for a surprise when she finds out who treated her that way, as in Mayor Nagin and Gov Blanco..
Jersey Girls: Part II.
Moveon.org should be renamed moveontotherubberroom.org.
Notice it is a wench from a teacher's union.
Tell them they won't get their $2000 welfare card, the bus tour is over.
These people are madder than hatters....
Looks like they've lost some membership, eh?
Get out your lawn chairs, you'll have a long wait.
I thought that I was already as mad as I could get about the dems and MSM blaming a damn HURRICANE on Bush...
This article says these idiots (can we say Jersey girls) want to know why Bush did this to them.....like HE sent the hurricane...
And they want him to "fix their lives" what part of "stuff happens" haven't they heard of...
LOL......you made me laugh!
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