Katrina Coverage

The DN report discussed in "DemocracyNow shocked by effects of supporting massive illegal immigration" also contains various anti-Red Cross charges from Bill Chandler, president of the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance, and I have a great deal of trouble believing what he says because of the earlier report WSJ: “Undocumented” workers face struggle to take American […]

Marsha Evans, now former president of the Red Cross, wants to spend more time with her family, as they say.
…Although the Red Cross is a private, non-profit charitable organization, it carries responsibilities on a scale usually associated with government. In the federal government's blueprint for dealing with disasters, the Red Cross is designated as the […]

From Storm Hit Little, but Aid Flowed to Inland City:
When the federal government and the nation's largest disaster relief group reached out a helping hand after Hurricane Katrina blew through here, tens of thousands of people grabbed it.
But in giving out $62 million in aid, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross […]

From this:
Vitter said so-called "FEMA cities" of travel trailers are a "bad idea," though he said in some cases they might be necessary.
FEMA needs to set up any large travel-trailer parks as near as possible to devastated areas, so that people can return close enough to their homes to get back to work — and […]

From "City blamed for botching N.O. evac plan":
They gave New Orleans city officials an affordable plan to evacuate 30,000 low-income, elderly and homeless people, said New Orleans attorney Val Exnicios.
But city officials failed to put it in play come crunch time, he claims.
Exnicios blames city officials for botching an evacuation plan in place as needy […]

All the Red Cross Financial Assistance centers in south Mississippi closed over the weekend. The only one open was in Picayune. The Red Cross says they needed to catch up on paperwork: 70,000 claims filed in the last week.
This results in the article "Red Cross closes early, vexes many" containing the complaints of those who […]

From Richard M. Walden, president and CEO of Operation USA comes this:
This skewed giving to Red Cross would be justified if the organization had to pay the cost of the 300,000 people it has sheltered. But FEMA and the affected states are reimbursing the Red Cross under preexisting contracts for emergency shelter and other disaster […]

The article "Despite Katrina efforts, Red Cross draws criticism" has a round-up of the criticism. Some groups want the Red Cross to share part of the $1 billion in donations they've received for Katrina. And, some want them to get involved in rebuilding efforts rather than just relief.
The "Black Leadership Forum" also plays the race […]

From Hugh Hewitt:
The Fox News Channel's Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume's show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of […]

Nine Australian tourists were among those in the Superdome; one of them says it was "like being in a Third World country, in a maximum security prison":
Women among their group had been harassed and grabbed by marauding men. Faeces lined the toilet walls. There had been suicides, rapes and murders. It was "like being in […]