News on IKE
FireDogLake sends word from Blue Texan that it might not be going so good:
Three Years After Katrina, Bush’s FEMA Still Sucks
By: Blue Texan Monday September 15, 2008 1:45 pm
http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/15/three-years-after-katrina-bushs-fema-still-sucks
The posturing and positioning is already beginning. You’ve got to wonder how all the insurance issues are going to shake out with the recent new on Wall Street. So it’s interesting that Perry would have the coziest incumbents at his side:
Severe Partisanship: Perry Turns Hurricane Response Into Political Opportunity For Endangered GOP Incumbents
By Vince Leibowitz on Sep 14, 2008
News is being clamped down and managed:
Galveston reporter was writing about her experience at the shelter
By Suzannah Gonzales
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, September 13, 2008
[A reporter with The Galveston County Daily News who blogged as an embedded evacuee at Crockett High School was asked to leave the shelter by Austin school officials on Friday.]
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/09/13/0913ikeblogger.html
The article below indicates a blackout, just in Houston, the size of New Jersey. No wonder the Houston Press is down. Our thoughts are with you:
Millions without power as Texas endures largest blackout
Posted on Sun, Sep. 14, 2008
BY MIKE LEE
[Hurricane Ike caused the largest blackout in Texas history Saturday, affecting millions of people from Houston to Louisiana. Officials said it could take weeks to restore power, perhaps longer than in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita in 2005.]
This is going to be a voter’s nightmare.
I Own My Vote, Just Say NO Deal, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group
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