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Posted on 09/07/2005 1:58:44 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON, DC. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) wrote a letter to Speaker Hastert, urging him to direct federal hurricane relief aid through channels other than Louisiana public officials. Citing incompetence and a history of corruption, Tancredo said a bipartisan select committee of the House should administer the aid and provide accountability for the $52 billion requested. The letter is reprinted below:
Dear Mr. Speaker,
Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, I hope the House will refrain from directly appropriating any funds from the public treasury to either the state of Louisiana or the city of New Orleans. Instead, reconstruction and relief funds dedicated to the people of New Orleans should be administered by a private organization or a select committee similar to the historic Truman Commission.
Public corruption is a well known problem in Louisiana. The head of the FBI in New Orleans just this past year described the state´s public corruption as "epidemic, endemic, and entrenched. No branch of government is exempt." Over the last thirty years, a long list of Louisiana politicians have been convicted of crimes; the list includes a governor, an attorney general, an elections commissioner, an agriculture commissioner, three successive insurance commissioners, a congressman, a federal judge, a State Senate president, six other state legislators, and a host of appointed officials, local sheriffs, city councilmen, and parish police jurors. Given the documented public corruption in the state, I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.
Clearly the federal response from FEMA in the aftermath of the hurricane was hampered by bureaucratic ineptitude. Making matters worse, the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana have demonstrated mind-boggling incompetence in their lack of planning for and response to this disaster. According to one recent media report, "A year ago, as Hurricane Ivan approached, New Orleans ordered an evacuation but did not use city or school buses to help people evacuate. As a result many of the poorest citizens were unable to evacuate. Fortunately, the hurricane changed course and did not hit New Orleans, but both Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin acknowledged the need for a better evacuation plan...[but] did not take corrective actions. In 1998, during a threat by Hurricane George, 14,000 people were sent to the Superdome and theft and vandalism were rampant due to inadequate security. Again, these problems were not corrected."
The city of New York, by comparison, had no advance warning of 9/11. Yet Mayor Giuliani and Governor Pataki displayed tremendous leadership in managing a chaotic situation in the city. Their leadership inspired confidence in their ability to manage the emergency and coordinate federal aid In contrast, despite knowing days in advance about the coming hurricane, Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin seem to have done little beyond encouraging residents to leave the city or gather at the Superdome. City school and transit buses could have carried 12,000 persons per run out of the city, yet they sat idle in parking lots under water - while both the Mayor and Governor criticized the federal response.
In the coming days, tens of billions of dollars will likely flood Louisiana to address the costs of rescue, clean up, and rebuilding. The question is not whether Congress should provide for those in need, but whether state and local officials who have been derelict in their duty should be trusted with that money. Their record during Hurricane Katrina and the long history of public corruption in Louisiana convinces me that that they should not.
Sincerely,
Tom Tancredo
Got to wonder about the motives of anyone who actually wants the job. :)
And I would include Witt on the NO GO list.
Kim: The Glate Amelican Songbook, Vorume Thlee.
Swampy here has been stalking the immigration threads for years now, now he resorts to name-calling when people respond to him in a way that hurts his feeeeeeeeeelings.
Is this how your parents raised you? Is this the legacy you choose to leave for future generations?
Perhaps it is. Perhaps it isn't. According to the article, "Jude and Angela Doty believe in instilling a strong work ethic in their seven children and have clashed with the state over how they have gone about it." So now they "annoy" you with their strong work ethic, Christian family values, and many other things which we can't mention?
In your opinion, what's the difference between hiring illegal aliens and hiring underage children? Is one more legal than the other in your opinion? You're the expert here, so whatever you say, we'll take your word for it.
Hey, wait a minute - I thought you weren't responding to my posts becuase you claim I'm your stalker. You're slippin', swampy.
I disagree with the over-used prattle about the school buses. As late as Sunday night, we didn't know whether the hurricane was going to drift east and hit Slidell, Pearl River, and other places in Mississippi or drift west and hit New Orleans directly and possibly Baton Rouge. If the city had used those buses to send all of those people to Baton Rouge, more of those people might have been killed by a direct hit on wherever they were staying. Furthermore, many of those people would have arrived in Baton Rouge and immediately begun looting, raping, and killing. While Baton Rouge was not hit this time, most people in the are had to prepare for very high winds and possible heavy rains. Many of these people had relatives from New Orleans seeking shelter in their houses. Things in Baton Rouge and the surrounding area were confused enough on the weekend before Katrina, and the addition of 10,000 looters would not have helped the situation. The notion that the interstates were sitting empty on Sunday just wating for the city to bus 10,000 people to points north and west is also ridiculous. I live just southeast of Baton Rouge, and I watched cars crawling along I-10 for two days. There were a few slack periods, but traffic was heavy all weekend.
It's easy to Monday-morning quarterback anything, and I agree that we should look for ways to improve any performance. However, much of the carping from the right is as wrong and as stupid as the carping from the left. A category 4 hurricane hitting a metropolitan area of over a million people is going to have a huge negative impact regardless of who's in charge. People who think they have a plan for everything are the people we should least trust with power.
Bill
You mean my Congresswoman, Marilyn Musgrave? Who? Where? She has been a ghost since the last election. Her district is RAMPANT with illegals. I'll not be campaigning for her the next go round.
I hope the state has found a safe home for all of his children.
They have an agenda, and it is to further illegal immigration. Maybe they are limousine libertarians who dream of turning America into Mexico with themselves as el jefe in the white suit in the big house.
Dane's schtick is to label anyone who wants to protect America a "Hillary supporter".
We have another reason to support Tancredo. Landriey announced today SHE is introducing legislation to take ALL funds out of FEMA, the feds, etc., and give it to the State of Louisiana and their different Parish's...
Hub and I have been VERY concerned that the city and state would get their corrupt hands on hard-earned money given and millions from the government. Someone needs to be in charge........not from Louisiana.....and account for every red cent that is spent on reconstruction, etc. That's why we have been very leery of giving.........I think we'll go with Samaritans Purse run by Franklin Graham.
Maybe I am the same thing that President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, the Cabinet, the leadership of the House and Senate, the RNC, and the majority of Republican Governors are. My profile page lays out in complete detail what I am.
You have made your hostility to both the Republican Party and the Libertarian Party very clear. You love to categorize me, but do you have the courage to say which party or candidate you support?
On the issue of illegal immigration, you are the same thing that Vicente Fox, the Mexican Congress, La Raza, MALDEF, LULAC, MEChA, La Voz de Aztlan, and the International Socialist Organization are.
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