2008: Candidates on Katrina recovery incompetence« Thread Started on Aug 28, 2007, 1:00am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------2008: Candidates on KatrinaBy Michael Falconeread at source>
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007 ... trina/This week marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and several of the presidential candidates are traveling to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the site of the hurricane’s devastation, to focus on the unfinished business of recovery and restoration.The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that Illinois Senator Barack Obama visited the city on Sunday to discuss his plans to “quicken the pace of storm recovery” there. The Times’s Jeff Zeleny has more detail on Mr. Obama’s proposals, including ideas for “restructuring how the federal government responds to future catastrophes in America.”