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For Voters like me, rebuilding NOLA is the most important thing...
WASHINGTON --The new attention focused on Louisiana's presidential primaries Saturday is also reviving the debate about the best policies for rebuilding New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spoke Thursday about his plan for rebuilding the city during a rally at Tulane University. He described Hurricane Katrina as the "moment when America's government failed its citizens."
"For all our wealth and our power, something was not right in America," Obama said. He promised that as president, he would make certain "your government will do what it takes to keep you safe."
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who is locked in a battle with Obama for the Democratic nomination, was not scheduled to appear in the state before the voting, but her campaign took Obama to task for voting against 2006 legislation to give Gulf Coast states 37.5 percent of new royalties from expanded oil and gas production, a change potentially worth $13 billion to Louisiana during the next 30 years.
At the time, Obama said the "bill sends the wrong message," creating an illusion that the United States can "drill our way out of our energy problems." Clinton's Louisiana spokeswoman Cheron Brylski said Thursday that Clinton supported the bill because "the urgency of acting to provide a secure source of financing for Gulf Coast recovery efforts outweighed any shortcomings of the legislation."
http://blog.nola.com/updates/2008/02/disaster_response_gets_a_fresh.html
McCain and Huckabee focused more on FEMA and less on actual rebuilding. This doesn't bode well for my vote, and its further evidence that both parties have made this a political agenda associated with Dems and Repubs, and not one of a bi-partisan effort to do what is right.
Basically, Republicans have blown the budget out of the stratusphere and at the same time use fiscal responsibility as the main argument to be tight with the purse strings when it comes to NOLA. As I have stated time and time again, I am no Democrat and I am no Republican, but its becoming obvious to me the Republicans in Washington really don't give a damn about us...
WASHINGTON --The new attention focused on Louisiana's presidential primaries Saturday is also reviving the debate about the best policies for rebuilding New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spoke Thursday about his plan for rebuilding the city during a rally at Tulane University. He described Hurricane Katrina as the "moment when America's government failed its citizens."
"For all our wealth and our power, something was not right in America," Obama said. He promised that as president, he would make certain "your government will do what it takes to keep you safe."
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who is locked in a battle with Obama for the Democratic nomination, was not scheduled to appear in the state before the voting, but her campaign took Obama to task for voting against 2006 legislation to give Gulf Coast states 37.5 percent of new royalties from expanded oil and gas production, a change potentially worth $13 billion to Louisiana during the next 30 years.
At the time, Obama said the "bill sends the wrong message," creating an illusion that the United States can "drill our way out of our energy problems." Clinton's Louisiana spokeswoman Cheron Brylski said Thursday that Clinton supported the bill because "the urgency of acting to provide a secure source of financing for Gulf Coast recovery efforts outweighed any shortcomings of the legislation."
http://blog.nola.com/updates/2008/02/disaster_response_gets_a_fresh.html
McCain and Huckabee focused more on FEMA and less on actual rebuilding. This doesn't bode well for my vote, and its further evidence that both parties have made this a political agenda associated with Dems and Repubs, and not one of a bi-partisan effort to do what is right.
Basically, Republicans have blown the budget out of the stratusphere and at the same time use fiscal responsibility as the main argument to be tight with the purse strings when it comes to NOLA. As I have stated time and time again, I am no Democrat and I am no Republican, but its becoming obvious to me the Republicans in Washington really don't give a damn about us...