LeveesOrg founder Sandy Rosenthal speaks to supporters at Kickoff Rally Jan 21, 2006 in New Orleans. Photo by Stanford Rosenthal
We think his piece was excellent. Among many things, James Carville remarked about the flooding five years ago.
And in late 2009, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ mismanagement at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was the cause for flood damage in the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Damages paid to local governments and residents will exceed $1 billion. These judgments validate many locals’ beliefs that the flooding of 80 percent of New Orleans and the billions of dollars in damage were caused more by massive engineering failures than a natural disaster. –James Carville
We would have preferred that Carville said the local ‘assertions were validated’ rather than ‘beliefs.’ Nonetheless, “Fine job!” to Carville who spoke about the future of many things including what may likely happen as a result of the judgments.
U.S. representative Charlie Melancon brought a contingent of people to Washington DC in early December to urge the federal government to settle and provide to the people of St. Bernard and Orleans Parish what they deserve. We hope Melancon is persuasive and adept at using supporting facts.
UPDATE: Many thanks to Editilla of the New Orleans Ladder for bringing to my attention that I neglected to provide a link to the CNN article by James Carville. You can see the CNN article here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/15/carville.new.orleans/
(Damages paid to local governments and residents will exceed $1 billion.)
Mr Carville is incorrect here about the damages to plaintiffs.
[ In the short run, Duval’s ruling could force the federal government to pay roughly $700,000 in damages to a small group of people and businesses.]
http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A67710
Those are the Facts and hopefully Mr Carville can get them straight as the Federal Government wrestles with where OR NOT to settle with the plaintiff’s in MR-GO.
I understand that Mr Carville may be speaking of POTENTIAL settlements, but in the realm of Legal Negotiations it is imperative that we keep our facts straight and not stretch the truth.
There is nothing in the quoted statement above to distinguish this and no link to Carville’s article so I am only going on what you have posted here.
Here is a link to the Carville article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/15/carville.new.orleans/#disqus_thread