It's designed to work in south Louisiana.

The only candidate with a history of supporting the crime fighters in our city.

Tragedy waiting to happen.

That Mississippi mud is perhaps the most valuable thing we have in Louisiana at this time.

St. Bernard Parish is toast now. It's just been wiped out. If you're ever going to instigate something like this, now is the time to put those plans on the table and discuss the option.

This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

There were several cases where we were waiting several months (for a rental boat to become available) which held up the program.

It's going to take a long time to get this system fixed, and you can never fix everything.