To my point earlier this morning...the President's trip to Louisiana was nothing more than a PR/photo op trip. He doesn't care...he isn't in charge....he's a huge waste of time! Not to mention an out and out liar!
BP busses in hundreds of temp workers for Obama photo-op
By Brett Michael Dykes - Updated: 05/29/10 at 3:26 AM
President Barack Obama, center, LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, take a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill on Friday, May 28, 2010 in Port Fourchon, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn’t look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, whose district encompasses Grand Isle, told Yahoo! News that BP bused in “hundreds” of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. And as soon as the president was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too, Roberts said.
News of 11th-hour spruce-up brigade spread rapidly Friday afternoon and infuriated locals. One popular radio host, WWL’s Spud McConnell, suggested that the Coast Guard and the White House may have been involved in setting up the “perfect photo op.”
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