Two criminally negligent crooks fight over who gets to be more crooked

Looks like a big fight is brewing over money for Chocolate Town.

Blanco: Put state in charge of buyouts
But Nagin’s panel wants city control

BATON ROUGE—A state housing trust would be in charge of doling out money for buyouts or reconstruction of flood-damaged homes under a plan by Gov. Kathleen Blanco, setting up a possible conflict with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s recovery commission.

While state officials say local planning processes will determine where people can rebuild, the governor’s legislation makes it clear that she wants the state to retain the authority to dispense whatever grants or loans will be available to homeowners.

That is at odds with Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, which has proposed creating a city-controlled entity to oversee the spending of federal money used to buy, sell and redevelop houses and neighborhoods.

It doesn’t matter who wins: New Orleans loses.  Blanco and Nagin are as corrupt and incompetent as two leaders have ever been.  One of them is even a racist.  Ahh...Louisiana politics.  Ain’t nowhere else like it on earth.

Posted by JimK at 02:30 AM on February 10, 2006
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