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Blanco inks contract w/scandal-ridden recovery company
WAFB TV ^ | Sep 14, 2005 | Cyndi Nguyen and Paul Gates

Posted on 09/15/2005 10:42:26 AM PDT by rvoitier

Kenyon's parent company is Service Corporation International, a scandal-ridden, Texas-based company accused in a number of lawsuits for illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blanco; contracts; katrina
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To: mewzilla

Jeepers... Thanks for the information!


21 posted on 09/15/2005 10:59:45 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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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.


22 posted on 09/15/2005 11:00:32 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Virtute et armis" - By valor and arms)
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To: rvoitier
Didn't she just accuse FEMA of being disrespectful of the dead bodies being recovered?

-PJ

23 posted on 09/15/2005 11:01:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: rvoitier
Service Corp also has its own PAC. FEC info here.
24 posted on 09/15/2005 11:01:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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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.

25 posted on 09/15/2005 11:01:28 AM PDT by FreePaul
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To: rvoitier

Isn't this the same company that FEMA was trying to set up with but couldn't get the contract completed?


26 posted on 09/15/2005 11:01:29 AM PDT by deport
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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.


27 posted on 09/15/2005 11:05:35 AM PDT by wideminded
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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.

28 posted on 09/15/2005 11:20:57 AM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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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.

29 posted on 09/15/2005 11:34:05 AM PDT by rvoitier (SMILE! There's a NYT reporter in jail.)
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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...

30 posted on 09/15/2005 11:37:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Holy cats. Look who's on Service Corp's board of directors: Tony Coehlo.

Holy Moses! What an incestuous den of pirates- thanks!

31 posted on 09/15/2005 11:53:28 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: rvoitier
Rat commy Blanco:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1361011/posts

32 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.)
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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.


33 posted on 09/15/2005 6:53:38 PM PDT by jeffers
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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.


34 posted on 09/15/2005 7:18:50 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: jeffers

BTTT.


35 posted on 09/20/2005 9:32:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: rvoitier

But, ..., Last week this was a Bush supporter run business?
What changed?


36 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)
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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?
37 posted on 09/20/2005 10:34:35 AM PDT by smonk
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To: chemicalman

Interesting, thanks for the link.


38 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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