Surprise, surprise.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
(more on the flip)
We'd heard rumblings of this before today but this article gets specific. Read the whole thing at:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050910/pl_nm/contracts_dc_1
When are the Dems going to start making a real issue of this and get serious about connecting the Katrina-Iraq dots? The Bush Administration is so brazen, even the media pounding they've been getting hasn't shamed them one whit.