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Did You Forget to Spend $595 Millon?
January 19th, 2007Mayor C Ray Nagin managed to forget to spend our recovery money on us. The AP is reporting in La. officials rebut Nagin’s money complaints.
That leaves over $595 million in federal money that is available to the city but has not been requested, said Col. Jeff Smith, chief of the homeland security office. Once the proper documentation is submitted, the money is available for replacing city property and structures damaged or ruined in Katrina and its aftermath, such as police cars and buses, the city jail, roads, and the sewer and water systems.
Those things all sound so nice.
Dr. Blakely says that we must go to New York, not to Washington. Don’t worry. He has friends in New York.
When is it okay for us to draw conclusions?
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It will be ok for us to draw conclusions when we know for certain the amount of red tape and paperwork Nagin et al. have to undergo in order to get that $595 million. Then again, it is the job of our elected officials to go through that level of bureaucracy for us, especially when this city badly needs the money. They have the requisite tools.
Which leads me to the next question: How long before the $595 million is conveniently forgotten and frittered away amongst “special contracts.”
Bravo. Nagin looks for investors in New York, again?? http://swamptattler.blogspot.com/