Louisiana legislature votes to remove "Road Home" to New Orleans contractor

"Recovery company dismissal sought

BATON ROUGE -- Lawmakers' frustration with the lack of progress in the $8 billion hurricane housing recovery program reached a new high Friday when the House and Senate passed separate resolutions calling on the governor's office to fire the company running the program.

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Morrell's resolution not only directed the state to yank the contract but told the governor's chief fiscal office "to pursue all legal avenues to recoup the public monies which have been paid so far for totally inadequate performance."

Only 82 of the 87,000 homeowners who signed up for the grant program -- which can pay a homeowner up to $150,000 -- have gotten final checks, officials said. Bruneau said the company has been paid about $60 million so far. "

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The problem with the deep south is that corruption continues to plague state politics just as the "good ole' boy" system still reigns supreme from Louisiana and Mississippi in the West to North Carolina and Georgia in the East. Until Southerners can break the elite fraternity that controls the pocketbook of their respective states, they're never really going to move forward.

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...all over the world. :think:

I've never seen anything like in the other states I've lived in.

Corruption? Yes. Favoritism? Yes. But still a demand that public servants and contractors perform the services.

Here, just the corruption and favoritism. No demand for performance of services.