Posted on 09/16/2005 3:17:45 PM PDT by abb
9/16/2005, 4:41 p.m. CT The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Less than a year after he took the post, state Democratic Party Chairman Jim Bernhard stepped down from the leadership job Friday, saying he needs to focus on his engineering and construction company — which is heavily involved in Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts. "The people of our state who have been so tremendously and adversely affected by this disaster require all the available help that exists, and I feel an obligation to contribute to those needs," Bernhard said in his resignation letter, released by the Louisiana Democratic Party. The letter was addressed to Mary Lou Winters, vice chair of the party, who takes over Bernhard's position. Andrew Koneschusky, spokesman for the state Democratic Party, said Bernhard's resignation didn't have anything to do with political upheaval because of the slow response to Katrina and criticisms of state officials over the handling of emergency response. Koneschusky said Bernhard is so busy in the hurricane reconstruction and recovery efforts that "he doesn't even know what's going on politically." Bernhard took over the post in January, replacing Mike Skinner, a former U.S. attorney who resigned after a series of stinging disappointments in the fall's congressional elections — the loss of several congressional seats and the election of Louisiana's first Republican U.S. senator since Reconstruction, David Vitter.
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Their stock dropped 70% prior to this. I'd say Katrina was a windfall for Bernhard's miserably run company.
Thank you. No surprise there, eh? Used 'em, then tossed 'em aside...
I don't know about any of that. However, I would be highly suspect of any private venture made by any elected Louisiana DemocRAT.
Thanks to FR, I have been keeping tabs on the John Ford scandal too.
Thank you for your # 25
The rest of the story!
The corrupt Louisiana Democratic machine marches on.
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