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Sharron Angle’s Callous Katrina Comments Draw Fire From New Orleans

Days after her extreme and callous remarks about opposing all federal aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina were unearthed, Sharron Angle’s comments continue to draw fire – this time in the form of a sharp rebuke from New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu. After learning of Angle’s comments, Landrieu lit into Angle in today’s Times-Picayune:

If you diss New Orleans or question the propriety of aid flowing to Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, expect a tongue lashing from Mayor Mitch Landrieu. … The mayor was at it again Wednesday, issuing a stinging retort to Sharron Angle, the Tea Party-backed Nevada Republican who hopes to unseat Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November.

Landrieu didn’t mince words:

“When I heard Sharron Angle’s comments about how she would have opposed helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, I honestly wondered aloud how anyone like this could actually be serious about wanting to serve in the United States Senate.”

In their reporting on the backlash from New Orleans to Angle’s statements, CNN noted the extreme nature of her opposition to the Katrina aid package – which passed 97-0 in the US Senate and 410-11 in the US House:

In the end, every United States senator voted in favor of the $51.8 billion emergency spending bill, while 11 members of the House voted against the measure. Rep. Mike Pence, the Indiana Republican that Angle referred to in the radio interview, ended up voting in favor of the legislation.

Remarkably, Angle’s new DC handlers aren’t even trying to walk back her comments, still expressing skepticism five years after the fact about wisdom of spending taxpayer dollars to help relieve the victims in the Gulf.  While seemingly heartless, Angle’s blind opposition to Katrina relief shouldn’t come as a surprise.  In the Nevada Assembly, her blind obstructionism earned her the dubious distinction of vote tallies coming to be known as “41 to Angle” and Angle has already insulted victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf by calling the $20 billion private escrow account set up by the company a “slush fund.”

 

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