Today is Phone-In Day to Senator Landrieu! We’re asking Louisiana residents to pick up the phone and dial 504-589-2427. When the aide answers, please say this: “I am a Louisiana resident and I would like to leave a message for the Senator. Thank you for calling on the Pentagon to investigate reports of the Corp [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Call Sen Landrieu 589-2427 & urge a Justice Dept investigation of Corps
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 – 9:52 am
Young filmmaker from St. Bernard Parish wins “Best Short” at prestigious NYC film fest
Saturday, June 27, 2009 – 6:47 pm
A lifelong resident of Chalmette, Matt Faust has won the prize for best short documentary at New York’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival! Many of you will recognize the haunting scene with the little girl and her beach ball standing in a desolate post-levee breach landscape from our Public Service Announcement a year ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjIryjz1Ws&feature=channel_page I [...]
Levees.Org Asks Landrieu to do More about Corps of Engineers alleged internet scandal
Thursday, June 25, 2009 – 3:44 pm
At noon today, we sent the letter below to Senator Landrieu regarding her response to alleged coordinated abuse of public forums by a group of individuals at the Army Corps of Engineers. June 25, 2009 Senator Mary Landrieu 328 Hart Senate Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Landrieu, Thank you for your [...]
BREAKING NEWS: US Senator will urge the Pentagon to review alleged Corps campaign against critics
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 – 7:05 pm
At 4:34 pm today US Senator Mary Landrieu issued this statement to WWL TV Eyewitness News in New Orleans. “I am very concerned by the reports that a number of Corps employees have engaged in a disingenuous campaign to undercut their critics in Louisiana,” Landrieu said. “My staff and I will continue to review these [...]
Call to Senator Landrieu to request investigation of alleged Corps of Engineers Internet Scandal
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Senator Mary Landrieu 328 Hart Senate Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 June 23, 2009 Dear Senator Landrieu, On June 17, 2009, WWL-TV in New Orleans exposed an apparent campaign of disinformation by employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding the failure of the flood walls and levees during Hurricane Katrina and [...]
Letter to Jim Amoss from St. Bernard Parish Firefighter
Sunday, June 21, 2009 – 1:39 pm
The letter below to Jim Amoss, Editor of the Times Picayune / Nola.com is reprinted here with permission from the author. Dear Mr. Amoss, It is almost four years since my community was destroyed by the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) federally funded levees. During that time, I as a St. Bernard [...]
Why Jon Donley came forward
Saturday, June 20, 2009 – 10:34 am
On his website Friday, Jon Donley explained why he came forward and spoke out on what he saw while employed as Managing Editor at Nola.com. For over 2 years, he observed a cadre of about 20 user names posting abusive comments on Nola.com’s community features about any articles or people who criticized the Army Corps [...]
The Times Picayune reports – a little
Friday, June 19, 2009 – 3:41 pm
Katie Reckdahl a reporter with the Times Picayune interviewed me yesterday on the Corps Internet Scandal. Her main question was how I came to possess a copy of Jon Donley’s affidavit. I explained that I asked Mr. Donley to write it when I realized the Times Picayune would not comply with my request to see [...]
Sworn affadavit: Cadre at Corps attacked its citizen critics
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 – 9:35 pm
In a sworn affidavit, the former managing editor of Nola.com, New Orleans’ largest online newsource describes how the Army Corps of Engineers used significant tax payer resources to attack critics of the Corps. According to the affidavit, a cadre of about 20 people, for over 3 years, have hidden their identities and posted comments on [...]
To the unknown Lakeview flood survivor: I will not give up
Friday, June 12, 2009 – 6:35 pm
The same day I returned from a congressional delegation visit to Holland with US Senator Mary Landrieu, I found an unsigned 3-page single spaced letter in my mailbox. She wrote: “I lived in Lakeview when the levees broke after Katrina. I can’t begin to tell you what five + feet of water in my home [...]
Senator Landrieu proposes transforming Corps of Engineers
Friday, June 5, 2009 – 12:54 pm
This morning I participated in Senator Mary Landrieu’s press conference on her CoDel to the Netherlands May 26-29 to which HJ Bosworth Jr and I were invited guests. The Senator restated her praise of how the Dutch people engineer for guaranteed security and she denounced the US Army Corps of Engineers unsustainable “patch and pray” [...]
What I learned from the Dutch about flood protection
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 – 9:14 am
Shown here is one of many ways the Dutch make water a part of life. In this photo I took from a walkway bridge, you can see a “pleasure pier” built for citizens to enjoy the beautiful canals of Amsterdam. While touring the Netherlands with Senator Mary Landrieu on a congressional delegation visit, HJ Bosworth [...]