Party affiliation not mentioned a single time in entire article. Could it be because an elected Republican is as rare as hen’s teeth in New Orleans and surrounding area?
Has anybody ever determined how much of the past (prior to Katrina) 50 years of levee maintenance actually was spent upon levee maintenance rather than beads, booze, babes and bribes (not necessarily in that order)? Given that NOLA has seen a bit of corruption since way before Huey Long, I presume that the percentages are levee .01, corruption 99.99 or thereabouts.
Yet they still blame Bush ..., you just can’t fix STUPID!
No, Republicans are now quite common in Jefferson Parish. Broussard was one of the old guard, those Democrats who clung to office through name recognition and by keeping their dirty secrets buried.