"Hometown Hero" Rep Gene Taylor D-MS

[HeeBGBz]

Great article about Gene Taylor in the Sun-Herald this am.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14359234.htm

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Wearing a mud-stained T-shirt and deck shoes, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor began ripping map pages from a Coast phonebook, circling places where he thought chances of finding survivors still existed.

"Go here, and here, and maybe here," Taylor said. "And tell them you have an order from a United States congressman."

Frustration and confusion consumed South Mississippi for days after Katrina, and a month later Taylor was still fuming. "I was there, and I don't recall seeing you," he told former FEMA Director Michael Brown at a Capitol Hill hearing.

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I was impressed with Taylor before Katrina when I heard him speak at the 12 Mile South Rally about a week before the storm. I have applauded him since.

He seems to care about the people he represents. I expect he could do well if he decided to move further up the political ladder.

[Cassandra]

1. I saw him at the hearings...

and was really impressed. I don't know his positions on other issues but his position on government competence shows he's really working for his constituents.

[HeeBGBz]

2. He seems like a good guy

He seems like he could be a fighter.

Not bad to look at either.

[blm]

4. He has a conservative streak, but I think he's a great congressman overall

who is very passsionate about his constituents. Like a southern version of Dennis Kucinich.

[mandyky]

3. I was impressed with him

and what he said to Brownie at that House Katrina panel. People here thought then that he was to conservative (I may have thrown his name out for 08 presidential material). But the man has backbone and speaks his mind, which our party needs more of, especially when we are right (Katrina, censure, etc)

[Cassandra]

5. The debate between the two of them...

about the ice was amazing. It was hard for him, as for the rest of us, to imagine Brownie could be so dim.