A whole community has been uprooted and huge parts of it destroyed. Add on top of that the disproportionate impact on the African-American population. So there is a tremendous amount of emotion about the issue. |
Every other parish gets by with one. |
I don't think the urban-development side has been addressed at all. There was just a big punt on that issue. |
There's too many people dying. |
Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest. |
You can't tell people to go pour their money and energy and emotion into rebuilding under the threat that their homes could be bulldozed in a year from now. That's not a fair position to put people in. |