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  • Chicanery hurts state's chances of getting funds

    01/16/2006 7:56:28 PM PST · by caryatid · 2 replies · 364+ views
    The Daily Advertiser ^ | January 15, 2006
    Can we see the problem here? While our congressmen are trying to convince their peers that Louisiana government officials are honest enough and skilled enough to handle billions of dollars of hurricane aid money for New Orleans and elsewhere, the congressman who represents the Crescent City is trying to explain away a bundle of cash investigators found in his freezer. At the same time, a huge fight is erupting in Baton Rouge among politicians over who will get to touch the federal money as it passes into the state. The cynical reading of that scenario is, of course, that money...