Posted on 09/13/2005 7:37:31 PM PDT by frankjr
Sept. 13, 3005 — Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck, a local congressman used National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings — even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops, ABC News has learned.
On Friday, Sept. 2 — five days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast — Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who represents New Orleans and is a senior member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, was allowed through the military blockades set up around the city to reach the Superdome, where thousands of evacuees had been taken.
Military sources tells ABC News that Jefferson, an eight-term Democratic congressman, asked the National Guard that night to take him on a tour of the flooded portions of his congressional district. A 5-ton military truck and a half dozen military police were dispatched.
Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard tells ABC News that during the tour, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his home on Marengo Street, in the affluent uptown neighborhood in his congressional district. According to Schneider, this was not part of Jefferson's initial request.
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The water reached to the third step of Jefferson's house, a military source familiar with the incident told ABC News, and the vehicle pulled up onto Jefferson's front lawn so he wouldn't have to walk in the water. Jefferson went into the house alone, the source says, while the soldiers waited on the porch for about an hour.
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The MSM will bury this story in a hurry. I'm surprised ABC hasen't taken it off it's website yet .
>Why can't I find this on DU?<
The congressman is Democrat and black...
La Dims PING!
Explains why he would not evac on the chopper and the truck got stuck, loaded down with evidence no doubt.
The more I read about the Dems the less I worry about islam.
Hey, c'mon. It takes time to start the generator and the shredder runs on electricity.
Nightline treated the Congressman Jefferson story like the major scandal it is. Koppel even got Mayor Nagin to say he wouldn't have done what Jefferson did. They also mentioned the previous FBI search of Jefferson's home. Jefferson's excuse was that he was just visiting his district. The Nat. Guard heavy vehicle plus 6 guardsmen sat in his flooded yard so long (1 hr.) that it got stuck and another vehicle had to come to get the first one out. A helicopter tried twice to "rescue" the Congressman.
Did you catch this story yesterday?
Blanco Screws up with Troops video;
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/09/12/blancocnndaybreak/
just watched Ted (my hair sux) Koppel do him in on Niteline. Nagin was there too, he has no comment yet as this is all new to him.
LOLOL!!
I understand that Jefferson is under investigation by the FBI for some typical Democrat skullduggery, bribery or something like that. The sad thing is that even if he gets cuffed up and hauled off to the crossbar hotel his loyal constituents will stay on the Democrat plantation.
To be fair, it is all "news" to him, not "new".
I laughed too, the wife threw me out of bed and here I be.
Hope she knew what you were laughing at........!!
Last line of the story is interesting:
"A senior federal law enforcement source tells ABC News that investigators are interested in learning if Jefferson moved any materials relevant to the investigation. Jefferson says he did not. "
Seems he was under investigation:
"In an unrelated matter, authorities have recently searched Jefferson's property as part of a federal investigation into the finances of a high-tech firm. Last month FBI officials raided Jefferson's house as well as his home in Washington, D.C., his car and his accountant's house. "
The suitcases and laptop where for his daughters.
Wow!
LOL!
I love that one! ;o)
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