Posted on 05/28/2010 5:49:57 PM PDT by LA Woman3
Jefferson Parish officials say they believe an unexpected show of force cleaning up beaches on the parish’s Gulf Coast was staged for President Obama’s visit.
Those officials said they received many calls to their office from eyewitnesses who said the workers showed up in several buses around 7:30 a.m. The buses were loaded with workers – a show of force the officials said hadn’t been seen to this point in cleanup efforts.
The callers told the Grand Isle mayor’s office that the workers who showed up were given t-shirts and began cleaning oil as the president flew over.
Those same eyewitnesses claimed that before Obama had even gotten back on board Air Force One to leave New Orleans, the workers were gone.
The JP officials said they have been pleading for more workers to help in cleanup and to prevent oil from coming ashore. They said they have seen far too few workers.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts said he thinks the show of force Friday was staged to impress Obama.
“This in no way compares to what we’ve seen over the past few weeks, particularly last weekend when we were inundated with oil,” he said. “It’s just a total shame that they would stoop to that level to try and lead people to believe that they have that many assets on the ground, because that’s just not true.”
Roberts said people tried to question the workers as to who brought them there but said the workers did not answer, concluding him to believe they were schooled in how to respond.
BP’s Doug Suttles, in a late afternoon press briefing, said the influx of workers is part of the plan and that the very hot conditions cause them to leave after short stints of work.
He denied they were sent for a photo opportunity.
BP gave Obama like a MILLION DOLLARS for hgis campaign....NEVER FORGET...THEY ARE THICK AS THIEVES!!!
What a bunch of phonies.
For the photo-ops arranged by obama team. He’s been on top of this from day one. LOL
...’he’ said, “Let them have T-shirts.”
Smoke and mirrors and nothing else!
ping
ACORN? SEIU? Who else can mobilize that quickly and get bussed in?
This sounds like something the maoist would do. He’s an expert at getting busses to a site.
Potemkin Oil Spill Clean-up:
Totally staged fakery for the whore media photo-op of The One pretending to give a rat’s patootie about the Gulf Coast.
When NObama toured a solar plant on Monday in Fremont, Calif—ALL NON-union workers were told NOT to report for work because of ‘SECURITY” reasons.
They were not paid for the day.
Since they were told to stay home by management, I say they are entitled to their pay for that day.
Funny how NON-UNION workers are considered a ‘security risk...but the UNION workers are OK.
I think the word to describe what happened today is bullshit.
Just as he runs off to vacation.
I don’t know about you guys, but vacation would be the last thing on my mind considering everything going on.
In fact I have not had a vacation myself in a lllooonnngggg time myself due to the recession.
The Obamination’s SECOND vacation during the crisis.
He had two preposterous staged short photo-ops on the Gulf Coast as he jetted off to Fundraisers and vacations.
Everybody and his brother has a cell phone with a camera. You would think there would be pictures.
LMAO!
No habla ingles
"...the workers who showed up were given t-shirts and began cleaning oil as the president flew over.
Given t-shirts. Why not come prepared to work?
"BP’s Doug Suttles, in a late afternoon press briefing, said the influx of workers is part of the plan and that the very hot conditions cause them to leave after short stints of work.
I'm wondering if ALL of BP's "workers" who toil in the heat are given the same consideration.
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