Congressman Jefferson Must Resign

OfficialWire ^ | 09/15/05 | Jennifer Monroe

[OfficialWire]

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- (OfficialWire) -- 09/15/05 -- On September 2—five days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast — Congressman William Jefferson (shown here), who represents New Orleans and is a senior member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, asked the National Guard that night to take him on a tour of the flooded portions of his congressional district. A five-ton military truck and a half dozen military police were dispatched.

According to Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard, during the tour, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his home on Marengo Street. According to Schneider, this was not part of Jefferson's initial request.

While many of Jefferson's constituents and fellow-citizens were dying, the water unfortunately reached to the third step of the Congressman's house and so the vehicle pulled up onto the front lawn of his home so he wouldn't have to walk in the water. The eight-term Democratic congressman then went into the house alone, while the soldiers waited on the porch for about an hour.

According to an ABC News report, Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck.

Jefferson must resign immediately. There is simply no excuse for any elected official to have used public resources (intended to save lives), to retrieve personal possessions, while people he is supposed to represent suffered and died.

[Peach]

How many people died when all rescue efforts had to be shut down so Bush could do a photo op? All radio communications had to be shut down for security reasons. He who lives in a glass house.

That's such baloney, like a great many of your posts. The president didn't visit any areas that were flooded and ongoing rescue operations were happening.

[mewzilla]

Limbaugh: The truck with the NGs, Jefferson and Jefferson's stuff gets stuck. A Coast Guard rescue diver twice tried to get Jefferson to go up in a chopper, spent 45 minutes hovering while they tried to get Jefferson to go with them, the CG.

The AP story appearing today has Jefferson trying to waive off the chopper?!

The CG says they responsed to a distress signal from the Guardsmen.

[Sometimes A River]

Boy this guy sure sounds like a true scholar, eh?

[mewzilla]

Jefferson on CNN: It's all a Republican smear.

[beyond the sea]

Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat, Louisiana) ----

check tagline.

;-)

[killjoy]

The president didn't visit any areas that were flooded and ongoing rescue operations were happening.

When the President went on his helicopter tour of the city with the Mayor, all helicopters in the area were grounded for the duration. Are you going to deny that? I am not blaming Bush for that, but nobody is innocent in this mess.

[OKIEDOC]

Thats true there are a lot of white politicians known as Democrats who are wannabe Jessie Jackson welfare blacks in the Northeast.

[topher]

Don't you know that laptop computers are more important than people in New Orleans? Besides the laptop probably had information that would have thrown the Congressman in jail, the city mayor and other Democratic officials in jail.

Therefore if people died so that he could cover up his criminal behavior, that is okay by the rules of the DNC.

[ sarcasm /off ]

[topher]

He still can be impeached in the US Congress. But that would assume there are Republicans in the Congress that have the guts to make an example of a ....