MoveOn.Org up to their usual shenanigans:
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, Kawana Lloyd or Alex Howe, 202-822-5200, all for Moveon.Org Political Action
News Advisory:
— Katrina Evacuees to Tell President Bush His Administration Let Them Down
— Request Meeting with President to Demand Accountability
— Why Was Federal Funding Cut For Levee Maintenance?
Hurricane Katrina evacuees flew into the nation’s capital to tell President Bush to stop blaming local officials for his mistakes and acknowledge that budget cuts and indifference by his administration led to the disaster in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
They intend to ask him why he diverted over 40 percent of federal funding between 2001-2005 away from New Orleans. Hundreds are expected to rally in front of the White House at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday.
“The President of the United States and his appointees let us down,” said Christine Mayfield, a New Orleans public school teacher and mother of three who was dislocated and now is staying in North Carolina…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Excellent Visuals — Signs reading “Shame” and “Help Hurricane Victims”
Shameless, and again, another reason why I have been beating down this levee funding bullshit from the instant it started.