Hartmann: "The 3 LA parishes omitted from assistance vote Dem"

[Bozita]

Discussion is now on his morning show from Portland. Stream is at:

http://www.620kpoj.com/listen/index.php

"Why isn't this a headline in the NYT or Wapo?"

[rodeodance]

1. but many on DU were saying yesteday that Blanco had included

these parishes in her Aug. 28 declaration asking for assistance. This issue came up in the hearing. I am confused.

[Bozita]

3. He says Brown perjured himself yesterday

Blanco requested assistance for ALL parishes.

[WestHoustonDem]

7. Cool! I sent him an email yesterday and alerted him in the chat

room about the perjury.

[Bozita]

10. a great big "Thank you" for that

[WestHoustonDem]

13. I'm just glad it's getting press n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

She DID.

They're trying to show that even though they were included, there was a reason they were left out of GETTING any of the assitance that was asked for.

FSC

[rodeodance]

5. oh, ok--I think I am following this now.

[rodeodance]

4. recall that Brown had said they were excluded but he went ahead and

and made the decision to include them anyway.

[castiron]

2. Also Brownie was a crony who explicitely denied partisanship in his

"apology" yesterday, saying that it was just coincidence Louisiana's governor was a Dem....blah, blah.

When a neo-con crony is so explicit about Democrats, you know to just take the opposite of what they say.

[NewJeffCT]

6. These are the parishes from the Aug 27 White House press release

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/2005082...

[banana republican]

8. IT IS MORE THAN JUST 3 PARISHES!!!!

I posted on a previous link an copy of the 2004 red/blue voting by parish; and a list of parishes covered by * emergency declaration. Guess which parishes were left off * list???

every single parish that voted blue in the last election was omitted from * list.

Including the previously blue(turned red in a bitter election) 3rd congressional district.

don't have the link but search on my name.

[Canuckistanian]

12. The 3 parishes were omitted from Blanco's list n/t

[Lerkfish]

17. no, blanco included all, Fema's list was short.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Yes, I know. I was talking about the second, more specific letter.

The first letter covered the entire state and that should have been the end of it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. Blanco included ALL OF LOUISIANA in her request. It was the shrub

that left those three parishes out. Blanco dotted all of her i's and crossed all of her t's.

Brown can be prosecuted for lying under oath.

Here's a link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Canuckistanian]

11. Randy Rhodes was talking about this in detail yesterday

Blanco declared a state of emergency for the ENTIRE STATE of LA. In a second letter, she outlined exactly which parishes would be affected and how.

Bush sent a letter back, accepting the state of emergency and mentioning specific areas, but left out 3 parishes, including Orleans.

Now, it seems those exact 3 parishes are the ones that vote Democratic.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Rx: Federal district court. Cause of action: equal protection violation

[ms liberty]

16. Good one...

Now it's getting someone to do it - maybe Aaron Broussard?

What we should be charging them with is treason.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. She DID include them in her declaration. Here's a link to the OFFICIAL

document. HE LIED! UNDER OATH!

http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pd...

[tx_dem41]

19. Hartmann needs to do his homework: 2 of those parishes vote heavy Repub..

....60-70% Republican in 2000 and 2004. They both voted around 60% Republican in 1988 and 1992. Only in 1996 did they vote Dem by a fairly slim margin.