Posted on 07/23/2007 9:19:02 PM PDT by HAL9000
Is the Pope German?
What a bunch of BS. Of course they had to pay someone more than Blanco. She was totally incompetent. Note that there is no mention of getting the job done. I wonder about the sanity of some watchdog in Washington saying a relationship is crazy for publication. Witt may or may not be in trouble, but his critics seem like idiots.
In the immediate hurricane aftermath, it took only minutes after Blanco’s announcement of hiring Witt for Freepers to start predicting this outcome. Inevitable. 100% predictable. Nothing more or less expected.
And this walking shrine to the Peter Principle was still more competent than Blanco.
If Vitter didn’t walk into his own mess this month, this could have been another nail in the La. Dem party coffin.
Rick Perry gets an honorable mention for managing a massive number of refugees.
And Mike Huckabee gets a mention for deploying the Arkansas National Guard to New Orleans to restore order at the height of the anarchy.
I'll give Goodhair credit for that.
Found the thread i was looking for, lo and behold, you posted it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476788/posts
40-50%gross margins for emergency services is not uncommon. There are lots of mobilizations costs that need to be factored in plus a company has to factor in those times when they need to be available but not busy.
Then there are the taxes that need to be paid on gross sales which include payments to subcontractors.
Guys this is a good ole Democratic boy from the county I grew up and live in. Arkansas politics is like most corrupt. These little people end up multimillionares due too their connections. Arkansas is a Democratic State. Wesley Clark is just another person getting rich by playing politics with the good ole boys. Nothin new here at all. Hope they all get jail time espically Clark. He disgusts me.
The other option is that this piece is a loosely orchestrated hit piece put together by the Shaw Group and La. Dem party (and media) in an attempt to steer the Witt contract into Louisianian Democrat-controlled firms,
Reuters might want to tke a look at who the CEO of The Shaw Group is:
J.M. Bernhard, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shaw and is Chairman of the Democrat Party of Louisiana!
The Shaw Group Inc. announced today that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to aid in the recovery and rebuilding efforts. The $100 million contract has a base period of one-year, with an additional one-year option.
Tell that to the Democrats that chant and gripe about companies and people who profit off the war. But when the well connected in their bunch of dogs profit on the poor black people of NO and not a peep from them it makes me angry.
The real hero of Katrina was not Haley Barbour.
Read this about Haley Barbour and family. It seems they like deals also. Read the last paragraph to see how “honest” they are.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070622/NEWS01/706220304
Didn’t Blanco want a law against “profiteering” pushed through against gas stations?
Other than the company principal being the wife of the nephew of Haley Barbour, what does this have to do with the Governor of MS? Certainly, how does it detract from the absolutely stellar way that he handled the disaster that hit this state?
And other than the veiled allegations of a FIRED former employee that the FBI was looking for “something”, what wrongdoing can be attributed to the company?
The horribly left-leaning Hattisburg American attempts to paint the company and its owner in a bad light by implying that there was something wrong with a no-bid contract for showers or because she used her maiden name in applications. None of it is substantiated by anything even imitating fact. No-bid contracts were very commonplace in the days and weeks following Katrina. A company raised its hand when somebody mentioned needing laundry and shower facilities — they got the contract. The owner used her maiden name in representing her business so as to avoid any allegations of nepotism, cronyism, or other impropriety. For that effort, she is accused of impropriety. Go figure?
You fell for their trap and allowed yourself to be fooled into believing their ‘nothing there’ name-association tripe as an indictment of the Governor. Don’t get sucked into believing what reads like a hit-piece.
MS Ping Yall.
What about the post-Katrina atrocities by the FEMA Law Enforcement (F.E.M.A.L.E.) people?
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