Katrina for Kaitlyn 4/17/06

Katrina Update-The NY Times Fooled by "Katrina Victim"; The New Orleans Mayor Race.
Pic of the Day

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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. --Hank Aaron

The Media Helps With Katrina Lies

Kaitlyn Mae,

It’s March of the year of our Lord, 2006. The Katrina story rages on as New Orleans attempts to re-build and politicians attempt the most blatant voter fraud upon the gullible public. Oh, and the vaunted Red Cross, as it turns out, too grabbed a bit of the American Katrina largesse.

Let’s begin with the NY Times, a lying newspaper if ever there was one, Kaitlyn. If this newspaper is still around when you read this, Kaitlyn, please believe absolutely nothing that they write…ever.

Seems some thief got a hold of a NYT reporter’s ear and whined about her mistreatment after surviving and being evacuated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Only this lady has never been near New Orleans in her life but the truth, sweet Kaitlyn Mae, never matters to the NY Times. If it makes the Bush administration look bad, that’s good enough. Never mind verifying facts and such.

From Editor and Publisher:

Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday. The original article, more than 1000 words in length, was written by Nicholas Confessore. He also wrote the news article about the error today. Without saying that he wrote the first story, he wrote today: "The Times did not verify many aspects of Ms. Fenton's claims, never interviewed her children, and did not confirm the identity of the man she described as her husband." The editors' note states: "An article in The Metro Section on March 8 profiled Donna Fenton, identifying her as a 37-year-old victim of Hurricane Katrina who had fled Biloxi, Miss., and who was frustrated in efforts to get federal aid as she and her children remained as emergency residents of a hotel in Queens. "Yesterday, the New York police arrested Ms. Fenton, charging her with several counts of welfare fraud and grand larceny. Prosecutors in Brooklyn say she was not a Katrina victim, never lived in Biloxi and had improperly received thousands of dollars in government aid. Ms. Fenton has pleaded not guilty.

The Red Cross

The quote below is from the NY Times but Kaitlyn, there’s been fraud allegations against the Red Cross from all over the planet.

According to this story, actual Red Cross volunteers have come forth and told horror tales of supplies disappearing after Hurricane Katrina. Truckloads of supplies, Kaitlyn, delivered and donated by kind Americans to aid the victims.

Yet the only ones who got aid would seem to be …Red Cross Workers!

Throw money around with no accountability, Kaitlyn, and there’s a recipe for disaster.

From NY Times-Read with care, believe at your own risk:

Red Cross Sifting Internal Charges Over Katrina Aid By STEPHANIE STROM Published: March 24, 2006 The accusations include improper diversion of relief supplies, and officials said some of the actions might have been criminal.

The Most Ridiculous of All

Well sure. Why not set up polling places for New Orleans’ mayor race in other states? For the main voting base of the contenders, the corrupt Louisiana Democratic party, have been evacuated to other states. Mostly because the ones they voted for before Katrina left those citizens to drown while municipal school buses sat unused and up to their wheel-wells in water.

Now that those poor souls have been moved all over the country, well goodness how is a corrupt politicians suppose to win in New Orleans without them?

Not that such as voting in Tennessee for a Kentucky election isn’t against the constitution or anything. And goodness knows it’s not like folks living in Kentucky wouldn’t vote in the Tennessee election even though it’s not their state. Maybe they’ve got a grudge against some of the Tennessee politicos.

Kaitlyn, there is such a thing as absentee ballots and no one has a problem with the evacuees not yet returned to their homes in New Orleans couldn’t cast their ballot via this method. Americans have been voting via absentee ballots for ages and so too could the New Orleans’ Katrina evacuees.

Though the corrupt politicians think fixing the vote might be easier if they just set up voting polls all across the United States and anyone who wants can vote for New Orleans’ mayors.

From NOLA.com:

DISASTER POLITICS. Civil rights groups are pressing ahead with plans to challenge that state's decision not to set up out-of-state polling places for displaced New Orleans residents to vote in the April 22 election, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

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