Oh my! That's funny. LOL
We're they floating next to the rubber ducky?
Someone like Penn needs to be removed from the situation.
He is not a reporter, elected official or a member of the military/official rescue groups. He is only there for his own personal political agenda over and above any effort made to rescue the victims.
Biden - coroner told to expect 5-10,000 bodies. And that's just New Orleans.
N.O. Levee Board overhaul complete -
Blanco delayed shift by nearly a year
Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)
November 1, 2004
Author: Frank Donze
Staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 3
Excerpts:
http://www.nola.com
...Jim Huey, an Algiers businessman named to the board in 1992 by former Gov. Edwin Edwards and retained by Foster in 1996, is the lone gubernatorial appointee asked to stay on by Blanco. While six of the board's eight members serve at the governor's pleasure, Blanco has no control over City Hall's two representatives.
Huey, an ally of state Sen. Francis Heitmeier of Algiers, a strong Blanco supporter, has been the board's president since June 1996. He will retain the post on the reconfigured board, Blanco advisers say.
Blanco's new choices, all Democrats, include some familiar political names.
The first Blanco appointee to be sworn in was former Orleans Parish Recorder of Mortgages Mike McCrossen, who took his oath last week before the board's October meeting.
McCrossen replaces businessman and retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Livingston, a Republican Party activist who resigned recently to retire to South Carolina.
Four others who received Oct. 21 letters of appointment from Blanco are former Orleans Parish Civil Court Clerk Dan Foley; business consultant Darrel Saizan Jr., who served on the Levee Board from 1992-94 while an aide to former Mayor Sidney Barthelemy; Eugene Green, president of the New Orleans Business & Industrial District; and lawyer Allen Borne.
All of the new board members have influential sponsors.
Foley is a political mentor to his successor as civil court clerk, Dale Atkins, who is a close adviser to Blanco. McCrossen is a Heitmeier supporter. Saizan is an ally of state Sen. Lambert Boissiere Jr. And Green was a top campaign adviser to state Sen. Ann Duplessis, who ousted longtime incumbent Jon Johnson last fall.
Borne, a supporter of Blanco, is the former elected representative of the yacht club membership at South Shore Marina, which is owned and operated by the board.
Plans call for Borne, Foley, Green and Saizan to be sworn in at the board's November meeting.
City Hall's current representatives on the board are City Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis and Charles Rice, the chief administrative officer in Mayor Ray Nagin's administration.
Responsible for building and maintaining the flood walls and embankments that make up local flood control networks, the state's levee boards historically have provided governors with an easy way to reward financial supporters.
In New Orleans, there is the added benefit of overseeing a police department and an expansive inventory of real estate that includes an airport, two marinas, a riverboat casino complex, dozens of parcels of commercial property and hundreds of acres of park land along Lake Pontchartrain.
Typically, legislators who represent areas near the lakefront lobby the governor on behalf of favored candidates in an effort to better monitor what goes on in their districts and to gain input into the awarding of contracts.