Remember Aaron Broussard, “lyin’ and cryin’” on Meet the Press in Katrina’s aftermath? He’s actually running for re-election. Wuzzadem had him pegged very early on, but here’s the video if you need a refresher.
In spite of personally causing between $3 and $5 BILLION dollars in damage to Jefferson Parish, he actually has the nerve to run again. It’s actually very hard to get recalled in Louisiana – the law demands an unreasonably high number of signatures. But it should be easier to get him out of office at election time. There is so much hostility against him that even though he has vastly outmatched his opponent, Alan Leone, in spending, there is an excellent chance he will lose.Broussard is an unmitigated disaster, and I don’t say that because he’s a Democrat. The fact that he recently ran campaign commercials taking credit for the economic boom after Katrina has infuriated many people. We know where that boom is coming from – the tens of thousands of new appliances we had to buy, the millions of dollars homeowners have spent trying to make their homes livable again since Broussard made the unbelievably bad decision to send the pump operators to the state line instead of keeping them local like other essential personnel. While it’s true that he caused it, it’s hardly something he should be bragging about. His poor decisions didn’t stop there – he commandeered a local hospital and drove nearly 700 employees to the brink of unemployment. He paid a friend of his $15,000 to “manage” the hospital while Broussard used it as a hotel. He followed up these offenses by using taxpayer money to defend himself with advertising in the Times-Picayune.
It’s high time he was removed from office. If you’re a Jefferson Parish voter, click here to check out AnybodyButBroussard.com, with links to help you register to vote or to find your polling place.
