"66 percent of the NO's homes and offices have no electricity" (!?!?)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/013106dnnatcatwoman.cba0250.html


They're stay-at-home moms, successful professionals and mothers of celebrities. And while many of the 140 women who arrived by private jet Monday hail from Louisiana's most prominent political families, their journey to the U.S. Capitol was highly personal.

Carrying photographs of their flooded homes and calling themselves "Women of the Storm," they set out in pairs to invite each member of Congress to visit post-Katrina New Orleans to see the devastation firsthand – and hopefully support a boost in federal aid to the region.

"It was a storm that was felt around the world," Ms. Milling said. "Yet, who would dream that 87 percent of the House of Representatives and 70 percent of the Senate haven't found time to visit the site of the largest catastrophe in the history of America?"

Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,300 people, most of them in Louisiana, and caused more than $200 billion worth of damage. To date, more than 66 percent of the city's homes and offices have no electricity – and even more lack water and natural gas service.

[bbinacan]

1. Paging Bush, Blanco, and Nagin

do some damn thing will ya.

[rodeodance]

2. well, I am a cynic--it is Dem country--(for the most part).

[rainbow4321]

8. And to think the original NO Election Day was to be THIS week!

Sure as hell doesn't sound like the city will be inhabitable on 4/22.. just 3 months away! "Bulk mailings and media campaign"? Can't wait to see the half-ass attempt that is going to be done to locate the displaced Dem voters.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/1138139388194430.xml&storylist=politics

Under pressure from a federal judge, Gov. Kathleen Blanco set an April 22 date for New Orleans' elections, which were postponed after Hurricane Katrina scattered the city's residents and destroyed hundreds of voting precincts. Elections for mayor, City Council, sheriff and tax assessors will be held on that date.

The elections were originally scheduled for Feb. 4 but were indefinitely postponed by the governor because of Katrina. Opponents of the delay sued, prompting U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to tell state officials to set a date in April.

Critics of the plan to hold April elections say that there will not be enough time to reach out to citizens and that some would-be candidates will be locked out because they will not have enough time to campaign.

To track down displaced voters, the state intends bulk mailings and media campaigns to notify people of their election, their voting rights and how to obtain an absentee ballot.

[joemurphy]

3. Perhaps Mary Landrieu can triangulate a way to find aid. n/t

[hatrack]

4. Yes, but she'd better not offend any centrist NRA members!

Why, she might LOSE THEIR VOTES!!!!

:puke:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. It looks well lit from here.

[Swamp Rat]

6. yep

I still have no hot water, gas, half the electrical circuits in the house are fried, holes in the ceiling and I sleep on a moldy wooden floor.

And the rest of America HARDLY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT US!

:mad:

[rainbow4321]

12. People do care....it's the frigging regime that has let you guys down...

cuz they know that no one in the lapdog MSM will question their actions (or NO action, in this case)


:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[Up2Late]

7. Here are a few more numbers: 5 MONTHS since * promised an investigation!

"...only 44 of 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have come to the city to see the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. <http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001882480>

Only 30 Senator have visited the devastation: <http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13677875.htm>

<http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/library-93/1137567520272460.xml?nola>

[rainbow4321]

9. "...while there has been progress, so much hasn't been done."

Newsflash, lady...we all know that in Tuesday's SOTU, chimp will be bragging how MUCH has been done and YOU (and Lieberman) will be standing and applauding for him as he lies thru his ass. He'll no doubt have some Katrina survivors sitting up next to Pickles...much like he has used US soldiers as props in the past.

http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/library-93/1137567520272460.xml?nola

"There is so much that needs to be done," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who visited the area shortly after the Aug. 29 storm and led a delegation Tuesday with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. "Both of us are stunned that in four months, while there has been progress, so much hasn't been done."

[Up2Late]

10. A few more numbers:5000 MS and 21,000 NOLA families still waiting for FEMA

...Trailers!

...U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is a member of a congressional subcommittee on housing that toured the region last week and held hearings in New Orleans and Gulfport. Waters also is disappointed that more of her colleagues haven't visited.

"Too many members of Congress do not wish to commit themselves to the resources it's going to take to rebuild the Gulf Coast," she said. "These people need help. They need extraordinary help for an extraordinary event, but they're not getting it from Congress."

One of Waters' tour guides last week was U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., who showed them some of the travel trailers housing thousands of families.

Around 5,000 families in Mississippi and roughly 21,000 homeowners in New Orleans are still waiting for trailers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency....

<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13677875.htm>

[Up2Late]

11. kick n/t

:kick:

[slipslidingaway]

13. Kick and thanks.

[orleans]

14. hey! hey! hey! bush said the fed government is giving the gulf

coast 85 BILLION DOLLARS!

so what the hell is the problem???

(for the record--i'm being horribly sarcastic. that s.o.b. got up on his sotu tonight and said that! he made it sound like everything is hunky fu*kin dorey.)

cnn did a small piece on nola a couple nights ago--
but haven't really heard a thing about it lately except for that.

i think anderson cooper should take his pretty self and go camp out down there until things get better and improvements are made. the piece i saw also showed habatat for humanity is in the process of building sixty homes. oh good. that should really make all the difference then.

argh! i want to know where the hell those 6644 missing people are!