Head of Shaw Group steps down from head of LA Dems
Tags: shaw group, la govBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Less than a year after he took the post, state Democratic Party Chairman Jim Bernhard stepped down from the leadership job Friday, saying he needs to focus on his engineering and construction company — which is heavily involved in Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts…
Bernhard is chief executive officer of The Shaw Group Inc., a company that already has received a lucrative federal contract in the aftermath of Katrina and likely will be seeking more of that work as billions of dollars in federal reconstruction money pours into Louisiana.
"Mr. Bernhard believes he can best serve Louisiana by focusing all his attentions on running Shaw Group," company spokesman Chris Sammons said…
Obviously, the Shaw Group is going to end up with gold-plated everything out of this whole deal, but I'm sure he's only thinking what's best for Louisianans.
