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Blanco inks contract w/scandal-ridden recovery company
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| Sep 14, 2005
| Cyndi Nguyen and Paul Gates
Posted on 09/15/2005 10:42:26 AM PDT by rvoitier
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To: mewzilla
Jeepers... Thanks for the information!
To: mewzilla
"Board member in name only?"
I certainly hope so.
"If I were Foyt, I'd start paying a bit more attention."
That's exactly what he needs to do.
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:00:32 AM PDT
by
dixiechick2000
("Virtute et armis" - By valor and arms)
To: rvoitier
Didn't she just accuse FEMA of being disrespectful of the dead bodies being recovered?
-PJ
To: rvoitier
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:01:18 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: rvoitier
...a scandal-ridden, Texas-based company...That's OK. Just as long as they don't have any connection to Halliburton. But why couldn't she hire one of the many Louisiana-based scandal ridden companies.
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:01:28 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: rvoitier
Isn't this the same company that FEMA was trying to set up with but couldn't get the contract completed?
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:01:29 AM PDT
by
deport
To: rvoitier
Service Corporation International isn't just some fly-by-night company. According to the FTC they are "the largest owner of funeral homes and cemeteries in the world". I don't know what scandals they may or may not have been involved in, but it seems like a large company like this would at least be among the natural candidates for such a big job.
To: rvoitier
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said Tuesday that the state would seize control of the task of recovering the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims. Mortuary regulation has always been a function of state government. Blanco seized what was always her responsibility.
To: wideminded
And Haliburton is one of only a handful of companies that do what they do but it's different?
I guarantee you if SCI was run by 'pubs with the same qualifications they would not have gotten the contract.
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
rvoitier
(SMILE! There's a NYT reporter in jail.)
To: wideminded
I don't know what scandals they may or may not have been involved in, but it seems like a large company like this would at least be among the natural candidates for such a big job. Thanks goodness it's not as big a job as Nagin thought. Nagin's earlier estimate of 10,000 dead is starting to make more sense, though...
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:37:54 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: mewzilla
Holy Moses! What an incestuous den of pirates- thanks!
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posted on
09/15/2005 11:53:28 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: rvoitier
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posted on
09/15/2005 2:23:22 PM PDT
by
chemicalman
(Finally an answer for the prisoner problem at Abu Ghraib: Don't take any.)
To: chemicalman
Can't even wait till the dust settles to get her fingers in the till, can she?
If Bush isn't working behind the scenes to get her exposed and out of the way, his grand rebuilding project will never get off the ground, for lack of funding.
Not one nickle of my money is going to that corrupt machine until it is blasted and gone. Till then, Mississippi gets it all.
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posted on
09/15/2005 6:53:38 PM PDT
by
jeffers
To: chemicalman
Can't even wait till the dust settles to get her fingers in the till, can she?
If Bush isn't working behind the scenes to get her exposed and out of the way, his grand rebuilding project will never get off the ground, for lack of funding.
Not one nickle of my money is going to that corrupt machine until it is blasted and gone. Till then, Mississippi gets it all.
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posted on
09/15/2005 7:18:50 PM PDT
by
jeffers
To: jeffers
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posted on
09/20/2005 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: rvoitier
But, ..., Last week this was a Bush supporter run business?
What changed?
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posted on
09/20/2005 10:26:17 AM PDT
by
Yellow Rose of Texas
(WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
To: rvoitier
I thought she said that preference would be given to corrupt local companies . . . aren't there enough of those to choose from in and around new orleans?
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posted on
09/20/2005 10:34:35 AM PDT
by
smonk
To: chemicalman
Interesting, thanks for the link.
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posted on
09/20/2005 12:45:39 PM PDT
by
Yellow Rose of Texas
(WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
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