Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 39730
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9/17    NO congressman misuses rescue resources:
        http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1123495&page=1
        \_ Look, Jefferson is Democrat and black.  This is a story for
           freerepublic, not motd.
           \_ Mmmm.. fuck you, troll.
           \_ Why does it matter which party he belongs to?
              \_ Or the color of his skin?
                 \_ Because anyone who criticizes anyone other than white
                    Republicans on the motd is ridiculed and/or harrassed.
                    \_ Yeah, I see lots of ridicule and harassment in
                       this thread.  -tom
                       \_ Right, and because it didn't happen in *this thread*
                          that means it's never happened and pp is a moron.
                    \_ Oh, I wouldn't say ridiculed and harrassed.  We just
                       have no interest in discussing the foibles of the good
                       guys.  We'd have pages of discussion if Jefferson were
                       a Republican.
                       \_ Horse shit.  If some Republican no one had ever
                          heard of did something marginally unethical,
                          it wouldn't even be posted to the MOTD.  If it
                          was Delay or Santorum, that's a different thing. -tom
                          \_ Horse shit yourself. If this was a Republican,
                             your panties would be in a bunch calling for his
                             resignation and you know it.
              \_ Ask UC administration why the color of someone's skin matters.
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www.abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1123495&page=1
exclusive exclusive Amid Katrina Chaos, Congressman Used National Guard to Visit Home Two Heavy Trucks, Helicopter Were Involved in Lawmaker's Trip at Height of Crisis Congressman Rep. William Jefferson visited his New Orleans home after Hurricane Katri na with the assistance of National Guard troops. Military sources tells ABC News that Jefferson, an eight-term Democratic congressman, asked the National Guard that night to take him on a tour o f the flooded portions of his congressional district. A five-ton militar y truck and a half dozen military police were dispatched. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard tells ABC News th at during the tour, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his home on Marengo Street, in the affluent uptown neighborhood in his congressio nal district. According to Schneider, this was not part of Jefferson's i nitial request. Jefferson defended the expedition, saying he set out to see how residents were coping at the Superdome and in his neighborhood. He also insisted that he did not ask the National Guard to transport him. "I did not seek the use of military assets to help me get around my city, " Jefferson told ABC News. They thought I should be escorted by some military guards, both to the convention center, the Superdome and uptown." The water reached to the third step of Jefferson's house, a military sour ce familiar with the incident told ABC News, and the vehicle pulled up o nto Jefferson's front lawn so he wouldn't have to walk in the water. Jef ferson went into the house alone, the source says, while the soldiers wa ited on the porch for about an hour.