CNN's promo slots were filled all weekend long with Anderson Cooper saying that billions of "your dollars" are coming to New Orleans, and does Mayor Ray Nagin have a plan for how to spend it? When you waded through the broadcast to Randi Kaye's report tonight, the absence of a city plan for rebuilding was dealt with, but no connection was made to the billions. For a very good reason. Those billions in federal aid are largely being channeled through a state agency, the Louisiana Recovery Authority. Mayor Nagin has virtually nothing to say about how that money is spent.
Good tease, no please.
Plus, a reliable source informs me that, despite his repeated visits to the city he "cares" so much about, Cooper had to be told just before airtime the name of the bridge roadway he was posing in front of, the Crescent City Connection. You might want to remember that name, sir. It was the roadway on which Gretna police turned back a crowd coming from New Orleans seeking an escape from Katrina hell.