[w1andsodidwe]

I saw one TV spot a couple weeks ago, where the spokesman was saying that they didn't want FEMA trailors and that they had another source for them. I immediately wonder which relative of his was set to provide them.

[caryatid]

The top trailer contract for a Louisiana company is held by Bourget's of the South, a custom motorcycle shop in River Ridge that is owned by two sons of the treasurer of the state Democratic Party who are also the father and an uncle of state Rep. Gary Smith, D-Norco. Bourget's currently has FEMA contracts valued at more than $107 million to deliver more than 6,300 trailers in Louisiana and Alabama, records show.

[...] State records show Disaster Recovery incorporated on Sept. 22, nearly a month after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.

The absence of a Louisiana license to sell new trailers did not prevent Disaster Recovery from landing a contract Oct. 17 to sell 394 trailers to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a deal valued at $7.683 million, a FEMA contract list shows. A state commission staffer in Baton Rouge said last week that, on the date listed by FEMA, Disaster Recovery did not possess a valid dealer's license to sell new recreational vehicles in Louisiana, as required by state law.

The Times-Picayune, Wednesday, December 07, 2005: Complaint filed against firm with trailer deal. It got $7.6 million contract without having a state license.]

Wednesday, December 07, 2005