Firms With Bush-Cheney Ties Clinching Katrina Deals

[Phil theStalker]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
So let's hire the ones that have bilked taxpayers for over a billion dollars right? Riiiight!

Right, you got it.

When are you leaving, Nicko?

[5:01 am]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169194,00.html

Contract Connections?

Reuters reports that companies with a web of connections to the Bush administration are winning the first contracts to rebuild New Orleans. The story notes that the Shaw Group (search) of Baton Rouge, which has been awarded $200 million in clean-up contracts, employs former Bush campaign manager and FEMA director Joe Allbaugh (search) to provide "general business consulting."

The Shaw Group's founder and CEO is J.M. Bernhard of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who is the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party and was co-chairman Governor Kathleen Blanco's transition committee, a fact left out of the Reuters story.