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No Laissez Le Bon Temps Roulet in Louisiana when Feinberg is around. If you can find him.
BP pit bull Kenneth Feinberg has been exposed for the fraud that he is and Toulouse calls him out on his campaign of lies and self-righteous claims that he is an "independent arbiter" in the BP Spill claims fiasco.
BP pit bull Kenneth Feinberg has been exposed for the fraud that he is and Toulouse calls him out on his campaign of lies and self-righteous claims that he is an "independent arbiter" in the BP Spill claims fiasco.
Well, well, well…Hey Ken, know what that tearing sound was?
It was the sound of the self-righteous cloak you’ve wrapped yourself up in for the past five months being torn up and tossed to the floor, leaving you and your ridiculous claims of being neutral exposed…
Have a nice day.
St. Bernard Parish has been one of the hardest hit communities in Louisiana, and on January 28th, Feinberg met with Parish officials at an "undisclosed location in a closed meeting" that was supposed to stream live to concerned citizens in the Parish Council chamber. The live feed was a joke at best and probably deliberately technically challenged at worst.
St. Bernard Parish President Taffaro told the crowd that Feinberg had made clear when agreeing to come to St. Bernard "that he wasn't going to do a town hall format.""He said he thought the town hall format was not creating solutions to the problems that he was hearing about," Taffaro said.
Translation: "I don't feel like letting the little people rip me a new one again and no more on camera moments of citizens begging for help on their knees. My bosses don't like it, but just remember I am neutral, you did write that down, right?"
Bush appointed Feinberg in the aftermath of Katrina and we all know how that went. Obama should have known there would be no hope and change when he put Feinberg in charge of the post BP Spill claims program, but maybe the live feed of sense and you ought to know better was experiencing similar technical difficulties when that decision was made.Feinberg pulled up in a black Chevrolet Suburban with tinted windows, got out and walked into the chambers. Once there, he immediately discovered he was in the wrong place, and quickly backtracked.On his way, he stopped briefly to talk with the media that enveloped him -- large television cameras circled him, blocking his way.When asked why he wasn't meeting with the St. Bernard citizens publicly, he responded, "As you all know, I would meet with people here in Louisiana every week if I could."During the live video, Feinberg briefly explained that while he thought it would be "more substantive" to initially address questions in a smaller group, that he would "be happy in the next couple weeks to meet in a town hall."He said he has become accustomed to "walking into the lion's den."
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That American Bar article "Masters of Disaster" was correct in ways they did not spell out.
ReplyDeleteFeinberg was put in charge for one reason and it has nothing to do with regular Joe's.
That entire area has been decimated by the oil companies and Katrina. Census numbers in St. Bernard Parish recently released show the population has dropped by 49%. So where is the prosperity again from big oil? Obviously somewhere other than SBP.
ReplyDeleteThey may have capped the well in the Gulf, but what about the one land side that Fiendburglar and Beyond Pathetic still have gushing?I do not begin to understand why Ken F------ is still in charge of this joke of a process.
ReplyDeleteFeinberg has pulled more than a few tricks in Gulf Shores and he's the go to guy for developers to get their cut of the goodies before any citizens do. I don't imagine he'll be coming back for many more "I welcome citizen input" town hells, which is just as well, I hear they are readying the tar pots and poultry pluckings if he does.
ReplyDeleteFeisty is always good in my book!
ReplyDeleteHow appropriate that his vehicle matches the color of his soul.
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