Where is any mayor or Governor when a city, the major city in their state, is decimated. I do believe NO provides an enormous amount of state taxes.
They are desperate and for good reason. Every city, every state needs a tax base.
A republican would be in the very same place, to think otherwise is not to grasp the situation.
Hard to miss the contrast between how Louisiana is handling this disaster and how Mississippi is handling it, though.
NOLA had a culture of crime and curruption that would make any Mid East Sand Savage Sheik feel quite at home.
Until that changes, and I see no real signs indicating that it will, of what use is pumping money into the corruption?
At the risk of being called callous and unfeeling, wasn't Rep. Crockett right when he said that Congress couldn't give money belonging to one man to another for any charitable purpose, as such was not allowed in the Constitution he read and understood?
With all the tax money going into NOLA, the emergency pumps didn't have proper, reliable emergency power sources AND the operators were told to leave.