What happens when Louisiana bureaucracy collides with FEMA foolishness? This happens:
This week, Nagin suspended construction of FEMA trailer parks in the city after a confrontation between federal workers and angry homeowners.
The mayor said FEMA had failed to get proper permits for the site at Lakewood Estates, a community of spacious homes in the city’s Algiers neighborhood.
FEMA insists the mayor approved the plan in December and that the agency obtained all required permits. Civil rights activists are angry with Nagin, too.
They say the black mayor ” who faces re-election in three weeks ” is bowing to pressure from well-off white voters who do not want 34 low-income families moving in next door.[...]
Markle said Wednesday that racism had nothing to do with it. He said he and his neighbors would support having the trailers on an empty 120-acre plot just across the street from the relatively cramped gravel-covered lot where the trailers have been lined up in three rows.
I’m speechless, but (sadly) not overly surprised.
