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JOHN MCCAIN TO LOUISIANA: LET THEM EAT CAKE!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Julie Vezinot

June 3, 2008 225-336-4155

JOHN MCCAIN TO LOUISIANA:

LET THEM EAT MCCAKE!

BATON ROUGE - John McCain is in New Orleans today in his continuing effort to convince the people of Louisiana that now that he's running for President he cares about us.

But when Louisiana really needed John McCain he was off eating cake with George W. Bush. And when Louisiana needed John McCain to support us in our recovery efforts, he criticized us for wanting to eat pork.

At every turn, John McCain has opposed Louisiana’s recovery efforts, from voting against $28 billion in Hurricane relief, opposing granting Medicaid and unemployment assistance to victims of the storm and funding to help small business recover. To him, it was all just pork.

"What we call an attempt to recover from the most devastating disaster in our nation's history, John McCain calls pork," James Gray, chairman of the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee said. "How in the world can we trust someone with such a misguided view to support Louisiana as President?"

But now John McCain wants to come to Louisiana and try and distance himself from George W. Bush by criticizing the President's failure to react and respond to the needs of Louisianans in our most desperate hour. And yet, this is the same John McCain who voted twice against establishing a commission to study the response to Hurricane Katrina in order to protect the Bush Administration from accountability.

"John McCain cannot have his cake and eat it too," Gray said. "He cannot dismiss our recovery efforts as pork one day and then come down here pretending that he understands what we went through.

"He still will not commit to full funding for Hurricane five levees, he just wants to use our destruction as a backdrop to separate himself from the President," Gray said. "This is not just an offense to Louisianans but to all Americans who believe that we need a President who will be there for them in times of crisis."

"The only thing about Louisiana that John McCain seems to be interested in is our Governor," Gray said. "And there is no reason to believe that he will ever feel any differently."

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