Way back, while Katrina was still actually happening, it was clear that Bush's actions were designed to get rid of the Democratic blacks who controlled New Orleans and replace them with rich, white Republicans. Tens of thousands who were bused out of state weren't allowed to come back even though their old housing was intact; Federal money that had been allocated for rebuilding went almost exclusively to rich, white-run corpo's to move into downtown NO or to build casinos in northern Mississippi (not exactly an area hard hit by the hurricane); Bush refused to allow the release of several hundred million in HUD money to distressed and exiled homeowners; while Wards Nine and Seven have languished, the business section downtown has been remodeled into what amounts to a Mardi Gras Disneyland for rich vacationers and tourists.
Tonight, Louisiana Republicans are crowing that their slimy tactics work and trying to convince people that NO elected a Pub Rep because "Republicans still know how to win elections."
Yeah. By getting rid of all the Democrats and then ignoring the Pub challenger.
[J]ust three weeks ago, no one in the GOP establishment had even heard of Cao. They didn't know his improbable story of triumph -- how he fled war-torn Vietnam after the fall of Saigon as an 8-year-old refugee jammed into a helicopter. Now they've seized on his rags-to-political riches story, along with the victory last week of Sen. Saxby Chambliss in a special election in Georgia, as rare pieces of good news after the dismal November elections.
"We did feel very neglected," Cao said in a telephone interview yesterday, suggesting that the little financial support that did come in the final week of the campaign "may have hurt us more than anything else. We were running a campaign of reform."
Clearly, Cao, for all their protestations amnd support now that he's a winner, doesn't belong in the most corrupt American political party since US Grant.
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