What’s next? Official state portable toilet of the dispossessed? Official state coffin of the dead?
I think it’s time to rethink the whole idea of politicians. Not sure what to replace them with when we really need to get something done, but the current way just isn’t working. Their state is in shambles (what, you forgot the hurricane hit more than New Orleans?) and this is what they spend time doing? At least a couple of them wouldn’t go along.
Official state recovery song proposal moves to the House
A Cajun two-step called “Come Back to Louisiana” should be named the state’s official hurricane recovery song, a [Louisiana] House panel decided on Wednesday, overriding opponents who said the proposal appeared frivolous.
The song, a remake of a 1963 single by rockabilly singer-songwriter Jay Chevalier, would commemorate the state’s ongoing recovery effort, said Rep. Danny Martiny, the sponsor of the bill. The measure would also name Chevalier, who continues to perform, Louisiana’s “official state troubadour” for hurricane recovery.
Martiny’s bill passed the House Committee on Judiciary with a 9-3 vote.
Opponents included Reps. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, and Mike Powell, R-Shreveport, who said lawmakers should focus on other matters. Rep. Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge, also voted against the measure.
The bill moves to the full House.
What would you expect from a democratic run state that points the middle finger at Bush and the Republicans.
Don’t worry Nagin, New Orleans will be a spanish speaking community very soon. Who else will WORK to rebuild the city that should never have been built?
Sometimes people just need a little diversion from the travails of life. Sure, a nice catchy tune celebrating Louisiana culture might be nice. Most other states have done similar things, some even going so far as to have a state animal, state bird, state stone, state language, state tree, and state flower.
As funny (to some) as this is to some, it doesn’t come close to what New Jersey tried a few years ago. They wanted one of Bruce Springstein songs, “Born to Run”, as the State song. That is until someone showed them the words about getting out of this place.
As for BgScryAnml poo pooing this as another stupid Democratic measure, of the three people against the measure, two were Democrats. Sometimes it helps to read the article first before commenting, unless you find it too long or the words too big.
It is probably true that people from both parties contributed to and continue to contribute to post-Katrina disaster enhancement problems.
If a person in the effort composes a Katrina jingles? Great, let it happen, move on. Playing spin and point the middle finger if you don’t like the idea? Great, the folks still in tents understand you don’t agree. Now go do something helpful. This kind of activity wouldn’t be so ironic if it was a sidebar to more significant stories about progress being made on the overall effort.
Shouldn’t we be reading about a strategy (or strategery if you prefer)and accomplishments by the Top Decider’s administration, Congress and the state governments in the region that over shadow articles on the Great Gulf Coast Bard Debate?
Democrats make up 62% of the Louisiana Senate and 63% of the House. The Governor is a Democrat. The mayor of New Orleans is a Democrat.
Louisiana is a Democratic State.
It was a Republican who sponsored HB 796.
RE: #2: Sometimes it helps to know your facts before touching a keyboard.
I could care less if they piss their time away on something so trivial.
The fact remains that the other states are getting the job done in their hit areas while N.O. is playing stink finger.
Howard Dean said that Bush cut and run on N.O…….he lives in a fantasy world…….at last count over 100 BILLION dollars has been alloted for recovery, yet every time anything has been attempted in N.O. the Mayor stops it, or changes his mind. The problem is that all the corrupt politicians from before Katrina are still in place and want their greasy palms lined before the feds can do anything. The crooks are holding everything up trying to force the feds to give them the recovery money directly……the feds(rightly so) are saying no…..because they know where most of the money will go.
I have said since the beginning, that the low lying areas that flooded the worse should not be rebuilt on the tax payers dime. But all levels of goverment caved at the first uttering of the word *racist*. If they rebild places like the ninth ward, then if it happens again they should be on their own. No insurance company in it’s right mind will insure any of them.
joshua — you really should rely on something a little more accurate than whoever you read about Katrina rebuilding. If you’ll check with the Congressional Record, you’ll find the total covered by bills that have been passed — but not signed — is $88 billion for the whole Gulf Coast.
That includes more than Louisiana, more than New Orleans. If you’re honestly worried about the plans of corrupt politicians — figure out how the US managed to have absentee ballots for Iraqis living all over the world — but, not folks from New Orleans presently living in, say, Houston?
Cripes. We even have an official state “question” — in New Mexico.
Red or green?
RE: #2: Sometimes it helps to know your facts before touching a keyboard.
Ok, you ole big scary animal, just what did my good buddy Feeling Fantastic get wrong? He is over in the corner crying because he doesn’t understand. So please, help us out here to help him understand how he screwed up. Just saying he made a mistake doesn’t help.
#6…moss……I rely on the same congressional record you cite. Your are correct in saying that 88 billion has been *passed* as of Feb. 16, 2006…..but on Feb. 16, 2006 Bush asked for another 19.8 billion in funding. Which was passed in March, as part of an emergancy funding bill for the war on terror.
Since that time another 15 billion has been asked for by Bush(The Hill) that is being put into another funding bill and hasn’t been finalized as yet.
Of the original 88 billion, 51 billion has been spent or is about to be spent. 30 billion for La., 11 billion for Miss., and another 8 billion for Ala, Fl., and Texas.
None of these figures included the costs of using the military for clean up and debris removal, or levee repair.
And these figures don’t include the 1.5 billion raised by private charities for relief. Also they don’t include the 40 billion dollars of what is expected to be 125 billion dollars total for insurance payouts already made. Most of this money has been paid to businesses and some private home owners. Most of these businesses are in N.O. alone.
I personally am tired of having tax dollars go to pay for the foolishness of people who continue to rebuild on tidal surge prone beaches in North and South Carolina, on top of known fault lines, along the banks of the Mississippi River or want to rebuild areas of a city, built on landfill and silt, that will flood again in a year or 2….Especially when we know that N.O. will be hit again and again only harder according to enviromentalists who say that global warming is causing ever bigger storms.
In most disasters, the people affected pull together and do whats needed to rebuild, you see this everyday in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas, you even see it outside of N.O.. Those people lost everything also, but they are there, working along side relief agencies to clean up and rebuild. But not very much of this is going on in N.O…..why???? Because of people like Mayor Nagin and others who are more worried about *chocolate* cities than people having homes and businesses to work in. You can go all over N.O. and see debris still untouched, hundreds of cars rusting where the flood waters dropped them, homes still laying in big heaps just as the storm left them, 8 months after the damage was done. The rich areas are being rebuilt, Nagin has made it a priority to rebuild them, but not the middle class areas, the back bone of any city.
I keep reading about people wanting to go back, but they don’t….businesses are screaming for workers, resturants, towing companies, hotels, all are begging people to come and work, and hardly anyone is. I guess those free housing and monthly checks are easier to deal with than going home and helping to rebuild your city.