OMFG Bush didn't include Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Tammany

[GeorgeGist]

parishes in FEMA authorization


Office of the Press Secretary
August 27, 2005

Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana




The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing.

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.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

Representing FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, named William Lokey as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA [phone].

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

[CottonBear]

1. We discussed this the other day. Are those parishes and the Plaquemines

covered in the first paragraph? :shrug:

[bloom]

4. That is not how I read it... eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. In BushCo's world

if you don't dot the i's and cross the t's then it doesn't count. If the left off the names of those particular counties, then it was deliberate, even though they will deny it.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Lots more info on this:

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/9/8/62853/79591

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/637/1/

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/8/121128/6965

If it walks like criminal negligence, and talks like criminal negligence...

[kenny blankenship]

3. That's an understandable White House error: ya gotta remember:

up is down.
down is up.

They must have thought the northern parishes were in the south along the Gulf.
Perfectly comprehensible when viewed that way.

[Kurovski]

6. And what might be the racial and economic make-up of those areas?

Nominated.