"Aaron F. Broussard" was the president, a combined municipal-parish position, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana from 2003 to 2010. A Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat, Broussard is known nationally for appearances he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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You came there (to help) at a time when we desperately needed it.

We have been abandoned by our own country.

We have been abandoned by our own country. And he said, 'Yeah, mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night.

Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody.

You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.

I'll always remember Maryland for its heart.

And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

We have been knocked down but you can't keep us down.