Queen Laura's College Roommate Goes to DC to Beg for Katrina Help >>>

[Stephanie]

Can you believe they have to do this?




Sparky Arceneaux, the college roommate of Laura Bush, left, speaks to some of the other members of the 'Women of the Storm' organization as they prepare to be checked by security before boarding a chartered flight from the Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. to fly to Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan . 30, 2006. About 150 women plan to deliver personal invitations to members of Congress to visit Louisiana and see first hand the destruction from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060130/480/lars10401301519

STORMING D.C.
Local activists think every member of Congress needs to see Katrina's devastation firsthand. And they plan to invite them, in person.

Thursday, January 26, 2006
By Leslie Williams

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They are called "Women of the Storm," and if all goes according to plan, a charter flight will land Monday in the nation's capital with this group of Jews and Christians, wealthy and poor, young and old, famous and not-so-famous -- women of African, European, Vietnamese and Hispanic ancestry. They will disembark with primary and secondary missions.

The Women of the Storm will separate into pairs, and each pair will formally invite four members of Congress to visit the Katrina-ravaged area.

"What we will be presenting to the elected leadership of this country is the face of New Orleanians, the face of the people of south Louisiana who have lost so much," said Milling, who organized fund-raising efforts for the initiative, including $70,000 for the charter flight.

The pairs also will advocate increasing the share of revenue Louisiana receives from drilling off the state's coast, enhanced levee protection, coastal restoration and legislation proposed by Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, that would use federal money to buy flood-damaged homes in Louisiana and pay off homeowners' mortgages.

"The priority is to invite them to come," Milling said. "By seeing, they will understand what has happened to this city, this region. A television clip just doesn't do it."

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1138258912245420.xml

[gratuitous]

1. How naive

Think you have some special entrée with the corrupt Bush White House just because of some long-ago relationship with somebody there, Sparky? Money talks, your bullshit will walk. You don't see the 9/11 widows invited to the White House, do you? What makes you think they'll give a tin shit about you?

[Stephanie]

2. Maybe if she reminds them of Laura's college pot-dealing?

i dunno

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. A little blackmail could go a long way

I just don't know if there's anything this person knows that could sulley Laura's reputation.

[earth mom]

5. I was thinking blackmail myself...

I fear for Sparky. :scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. This Katrina response just gets worse and worse

What morans the members of the dubya administation are!

Did you see Bill Frist yesterday? He went on and on about how much the feds have spent already, like all that matters is the dollar amount. Never mind that much of it has been wasted by inefficiency.

[deminks]

6. But, Babs said it is all working out for those people, so

why are they trying to stir things up? Just 'cause they're still finding dead bodies (imagine that after 5 months) under the porch. Why would the Queen, oops I mean Empress have to bother her beautiful mind with that? Smirky says they got rid of the democrats down there. The Chimperor has spoken.

:sarcasm: (as if you couldn't tell)

[mcscajun]

7. The roommate isn't important, whether she sees the Pretzeldent

or Laura even less important.

What's telling in this article are the last few paragraphs:

"There was no formal process" used to select the members of Women of the Storm, she said. "We were tossing out names, people who we work with, people we know. One name would lead to another. Or, one person we would talk to would say, 'So-and-so would love to do this.' It just evolved. It wasn't like, oh, we're going to have someone from the Chamber of Commerce, we're going to have someone from Tulane, we're going to have someone from Xavier. .It just happened rapidly."

The women are from the metropolitan area, as well as Lake Charles, Lafayette, Thibodaux and Houma, she said.

The common denominator, Milling said, is that all of the women are "committed and passionate."

These are women from all backgrounds and of all ages, going to lobby our representatives in Washington.
Mrs. Smith Goes To Washington (to bag a Congresscritter or two or four to come and see for themselves what Katria and Bush have wrought.)

You've got to applaud that.
:applause: