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Mary, Mary, Quite (To The) Contrary
InvestorsBusinessDaily ^ | 9-9-05

Posted on 09/10/2005 9:09:47 AM PDT by STARWISE

Politics: Louisiana's senior senator, whose brother is lieutenant governor and whose father was New Orleans' mayor, is blaming President Bush for "the staggering incompetence of the federal government." Come again?

It's understandable that on the Sept. 4 edition of ABC's "This Week," Mary Landrieu said of President Bush, "I might likely have to punch him — literally" if he or members of his administration made any more disparaging remarks about local authorities and their pre- and post-Katrina efforts. Some are and were family.

Brother Mitch Landrieu is lieutenant governor of Louisiana. Father "Moon" Landrieu was not only mayor of New Orleans, but also later became secretary of housing and urban development under President Carter.

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Despite Landrieu's complaints of budget cuts and paltry funding, the fact is that over the five years of the Bush administration, Louisiana has received more money — $1.9 billion — for Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects than any other state, and more than under any other administration over a similar period. California is a distant second with less than $1.4 billion despite a population more than seven times as large.

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The problem was at the local level. The ambitious plan fell apart when the state suspended the Levee Board's ability to refinance old bonds and issue new ones. As the Times-Picayune reported, Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle "repeatedly faulted the Levee Board for the way it awards contracts, spends money and ignores no-bid contract laws." Blocked by the state from raising local money, the federal matching funds went unspent. By 1998, Louisiana's state government had a $2 billion construction budget, but less than one-tenth of one percent, or $1.98 million, was dedicated to New Orleans levee improvements. By contrast, $22 million was spent that year to renovate a home for the Louisiana Supreme Court.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bigeasy; carter; corruption; floods; hurricane; hurricanes; katrina; katrinafacts; landrieu; levees; louisiana; marylandrieu; moneymoney; moon; neworleans; waterwaterwater; witch
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"Where did all the money go? Again, the Times-Picayune says much of the money went not to flood control, but to lawmakers' pet projects, from a $750 million for a new canal lock to a $2.5 million Mardi Gras fountain project that ran $600,000 over budget.

Nine months before Katrina, three top Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness officials were indicted by a federal grand jury in Shreveport and charged, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana, "with offenses related to the obstruction of an audit of the use of federal funds for flood mitigation opportunities throughout Louisiana."

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What a snakepit ... Mary Landrieu and her LA buddies need an excorcism.

1 posted on 09/10/2005 9:09:49 AM PDT by STARWISE
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To: Peach; Mo1; kcvl; MJY1288; ohioWfan; snugs; GretchenM; JustaCowgirl; MeekOneGOP; LUV W; Dog

WitchMary Ping!


2 posted on 09/10/2005 9:10:54 AM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THE 911 TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: STARWISE
Snake pit?

Now it's a mosquito pit, toxic pit, dung hole.....third world pit hole.
The Big Easy? The big pit hole.
It will only improve after this.

3 posted on 09/10/2005 9:12:13 AM PDT by starfish923
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To: STARWISE

People are only offended by the truth


4 posted on 09/10/2005 9:13:55 AM PDT by Kimmers
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To: STARWISE

HELLO?!?!?!

What's this ... a reporter actually reporting the facts???


5 posted on 09/10/2005 9:14:20 AM PDT by Mo1
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I thought it was all FEMAs fault ?


6 posted on 09/10/2005 9:14:41 AM PDT by falcon1966
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To: falcon1966
I thought it was all FEMAs fault ?

No silly ... it's Bush's fault

Get your DNC talking points straight, will ya ;0)

7 posted on 09/10/2005 9:15:56 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Kimmers

This is a good article. I think this may have legs, it ought to but in the democratic din it won't be unless it gets spread around.


8 posted on 09/10/2005 9:17:41 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: All
Should be interesting to See the Shrill Cries From the Daughter of "Moon" Tomorrow on All the Talk Shows


9 posted on 09/10/2005 9:19:17 AM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THE 911 TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: AFPhys; prairiebreeze; onyx; Texasforever; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; ...

Ping


10 posted on 09/10/2005 9:20:57 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: STARWISE
Mismanagement and corruption at the state and local level are responsible for the lion's share of this disaster.

And I wonder how many people's lives were endangered when New Orleans Chief of Homeland Security, Terry Ebbert, said this to the AP about the levee breach in the early days of the disaster

"It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach.

I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours"

The words "false sense of security" come to mind.
11 posted on 09/10/2005 9:22:06 AM PDT by syriacus (I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours - Terry Ebbert, NO Homeland Sec., Aug31)
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Wait .. don't forget HALLIBURTON has received a recovery contract in NO, so the Rats are preparing those stalking points as we speak.

Oooops, sorry -- it's already started HERE

12 posted on 09/10/2005 9:22:57 AM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THE 911 TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: cajungirl

This is a very good article....I do think this type of information is going to come out eventually.... according to Rush now even the Dem. Senators are backing away from an investigation...why? maybe it is because of information like this....


13 posted on 09/10/2005 9:24:55 AM PDT by Kimmers
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To: Mo1

*relapses into young skate punk circa late 80's speak*

Dag!
Where'd all the loot get Bogarted to?


14 posted on 09/10/2005 9:24:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (There is a Possum in the works.)
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To: Mo1; kcvl; Howlin; ohioWfan; MJY1288; Peach; snugs; All
And the war room is in full operation

with conspiracies and stupidity abounding:

"The big question that all of us need to ask ourselves is: Would this have happened and would the aftermath have been so bad if New Orleans was actually New England? And it's pretty clear that the answer to that is “no.” In fact, we know how the administration responded to these kinds of disasters when we look at how Bush handled Florida and the hurricane there when his brother was governor."

15 posted on 09/10/2005 9:26:57 AM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THE 911 TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: STARWISE

I've been wondering how the States Homeland Security Officials are chosen?


16 posted on 09/10/2005 9:27:30 AM PDT by katagious (Katagious)
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To: STARWISE

Good Ammo for a smackdown of an uneducated lefty.

BTTT


17 posted on 09/10/2005 9:28:43 AM PDT by A message (Not in the mood for the MSM, Democrats, Communists and Socialists. Somebody take out the garbage.)
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To: STARWISE

The levee that has been holding back the truth of Louisiana politics is breaking and the politicians from the Governor down will be naked.


18 posted on 09/10/2005 9:30:11 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Mo1

Douglas Brinkley was on t.v. last nite. I forget what channel and he was slamming LA officials so bad I couldn't believe it. He talked about the corrupt politics in LA and the corrupt levee boards. I didn't see him attack the Federal Govt. at all. I was totally shocked.


19 posted on 09/10/2005 9:34:39 AM PDT by hipaatwo
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To: STARWISE

Big bump. The truth hurts, eh Senator Landrieu?


20 posted on 09/10/2005 9:36:09 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("...there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." - Thomas Kean, chairman, 9/11 Commission)
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