I want a bill sent to Rep. Jefferson.
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Congressman Jefferson Must Resign
Editorial/Op-Ed
by Jennifer Monroe
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.
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As I stated in the previous post, Democrat elitist really don't care about their people. What they do care about is to be much, much better than them and to represent (pimp) them for their (the elitist) benefit.
Well to be a class act he should have told the guys to go save some people while he packed, then come back in an hour and get him and his stuff. But I can't blame him for retrieving the material if it was gummint business. At that point nobody knew if there were going to be more levee breaks and even higher flood waters.
As a constituent of Dollar Bill Jefferson, I can understand his foray into his house...ya see, the Feds earlier had removed some $470K from his freezer in some kind of sting operation...Rep. Jefferson went into his house because he still had some cash in the freezer and ya know how stinky things get when you lose power...
Yeah, I'll just bet he was eager to get hold of that laptop and whatever was in those suitcases and boxes....