[Rhodes22-list] Bill Effros is this true?

[Bill Effros]

Ed,

To the best of my knowledge this is true.

Are we all getting onto the same page here?  This is Rummy's point in 
response to Brad's last missive.

This story would also be essentially true if you replaced "New Orleans" 
with "Baghdad" and "Louisiana" with "Iraq".

Hold onto your wallet!

Bill Effros

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>Why we couldn't save the people of New Orleans 
>The New York Daily News, Sept. 4, 2005 
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>In the late 1990s, the state's school systems ranked dead last in the nation
>in the number of computers per student (1 per 88), and Louisiana has the
>nation's second-highest percentage of adults who never finished high school.
>By the state's own measure, 47% of the public schools in New Orleans rank as
>"academically unacceptable." 
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>These government failures are not merely a matter of incompetence. Louisiana
>and New Orleans have a long, well-known reputation for corruption: as former
>congressman Billy Tauzin once put it, "half of Louisiana is under water and
>the other half is under indictment." 
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>That's putting it mildly. Adjusted for population size, the state ranks
>third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi is
>No. 1). Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state  judges and an
>FBI raid on the business and personal files of a Louisiana congressman. 
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>In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin Edwards ran for governor
>against Republican David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards,
>whose winning campaign included bumper stickers saying "Elect the Crook," is
>currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking bribes from casino
>owners. Duke recently completed his own prison term for tax fraud. 
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>The rot included the New Orleans Police Department, which in the 1990s had
>the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force and
>the least effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America. More
>than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes including murder, rape
>and robbery; two are currently on Death Row. 
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>Ten billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands of politicians
>in the No. 1 and No. 3 most corrupt states in America.  Worried about
>looting?  You ain't seen nothing yet
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