Fire the tar for Heitmeier

State Sen. Francis Heitmeier, once the state authority overseeing the activities of parish levee boards, and a former Orleans Parish Levee Board Chairman (if memory serves me), was never interested in levee fortification before he proposed a bill to leave the OPLB in charge of its marinas, airport, and police force. Why then his sudden interest in getting money for hurricane-protection projects?

Maybe because he likes using taxpayer money for his family-and-friends graft plan.

He certainly never had any sense of responsibility for the integrity of the levees:

[Peggy] Wilson and the many other critics of the levee board may not understand the group's purpose, Heitmeier said. "The levee board does not build the levees down here. The Corps of Engineers builds the levees. The Corps of Engineers inspects the levees. The levee board cuts the grass," Heitmeier said. "That's what they do. They cut the grass.

... oh ... er ... yeah, unless you want to talk about writing sweet contracts to overbill taxpayers for insurance, and to build bridges to casinos.

Hat tip: World Class New Orleans.