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...This week, however, Louisiana's lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu-a Democrat whose father served two terms as mayor of New Orleans-told supporters privately that he would return home from Baton Rouge to contest Nagin. That's bad news for Nagin because the Landrieus-including both Mitch and his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho...
...anyone can replace an African-American mayor, it's a Landrieu. Moon Landrieu was one of the few white politicians who voted against the "hate bills" of segregationists in the 1960s, and he opened up city government and public facilities to blacks while mayor from 1970 to 1978. (He was also behind the push to build the Superdome.) Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and demographer in Shreveport, notes that one possible factor in Landrieu's decision to seek the mayor's office may be to save the city for the Democratic Party and his own family's future political fortunes...
...same time, Democratic opponents, led by Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Dick Durbin of Illinois, held moderates like Mary Landrieu of Lousiana and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and the increasingly hawkish Hillary Clinton of New York. The numbers left the GOP and the President short by 8 votes in their attempt to override the filibuster. As the clock ticked down Thursday night, the GOP leadership launched a last-ditch effort to swing Senators, threatening to let the law's sunsetted provisions expire entirely. "Tomorrow's vote is going to be the only vote," warned Frist aide Bob Stevenson...
Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and David Vitter (R-La.) took Bush up on his promise and presented a bill asking for $250 billion for Gulf Coast reconstruction, in addition to the $62.3 billion in already approved emergency spending (which works out to $312,300 per person potentially affected by the storm). The new bill includes $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana—10 times last year’s Corps budget for the entire country—as well as $50 billion for communities with vague “long-term recovery?...
...along the Mississippi River. But Congress and successive Administrations were never willing to fund the project fully. Under George W. Bush, the shortfall was acute: from 2001 to 2005, the Corps asked for almost $496 million, according to figures supplied by the office of Louisiana's Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu. The Administration cut the requests back to $166.5 million. Congress eventually approved $249.5 million, but that was still half of what the Corps wanted. The Corps' other major effort to shore up New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project, was also underfunded: as of this spring, seven...