Storm Donations Found at Official's Home

[DoYouEverWonder]

BATON ROUGE, La. Sep 22, 2005 — Police found cases of food, clothing and tools intended for hurricane victims at the home of the chief administrative officer for a New Orleans suburb, authorities said Wednesday.

Officers searched Cedric Floyd's home because of complaints that city workers were helping themselves to donations for hurricane victims. Floyd, who runs the day-to-day operations in the suburb of Kenner, was in charge of distributing the goods.

Police plan to seek a charge of committing an illegal act as a public official against Floyd, and more charges against other city workers are possible, police Capt. Steve Caraway said.

The donations filled a large pickup truck four times. "It was an awful lot of stuff," Caraway said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1148465


Here's his bio from the Kenner website. How much you want to bet he's a repug?


Cedric Floyd, Chief Administrative Officer

The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) manages the day-to-day operation of City government. The Chief Administrative Officer, under the direction of the Mayor, shall supervise all departments, except the Legal Department, the Fire Department, and the Police Department. The CAO coordinates emergency management procedures, attends and participates in Council and Agenda Meetings, and represents the Mayor as directed.

Chief Administrative Officer Cedric Floyd was appointed to the highest non-elected position in city government on January 5, 2004. CAO Cedric Floyd has been a resident of the city of Kenner for over forty (40) years. He is a graduate of Bonnabel High School and received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Louisiana State University in 1980. CAO Floyd was a member of the Jefferson Parish School Board from January 1991 to December 1998, serving as School Board President in 1996. CAO Floyd was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Center, a national demographics information system company specializing in Redistricting of Election Districts.

http://www.kenner.la.us/cao.html

[jody]

1. "God helps those who help themselves"? n/t

[Wickerman]

2. God has special plans for Cedric

:rofl:

[faithnotgreed]

18. ha - just add him to the government list....

[TheDebbieDee]

19. He should be on the list just below Halliburton!

[all.of.me]

3. i love this stuff.

the stuff that exposes who they really are. how long do they think they can hide?!

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. They are all corrupt to the core

Jefferson Parrish, LA just seems to be a microcosm of what Repugs are doing all over the country.

Where do they find these people?

[Mizmoon]

6. Birds of a feather ...

[all.of.me]

7. in church?!

:crazy:

[Mizmoon]

12. Dennis Rader the BTK was a church guy too

worship at home if ya knows whats good fer ya :)

[rkc3]

14. Here's a good article on the same subject.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40517

Enjoy!

[ogradda]

4. His Mother must sure be proud. n/t

[ima_sinnic]

8. this is SO EXACTLY what happens in "third-world" countries.

Mr. Sinnic, who's from Jamaica, says a great deal of material aid after Gilbert went directly to the "politicians." The same has been said repeatedly about corrupt African governments.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. That is definitely their business model

Turn the USA into a third world country. Remember when we were the best and the brightest?

[KansDem]

17. Has our democracy evolved into a "kleptocracy?"

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Kleptocracy (sometimes Cleptocracy) (root: Klepto+cracy = rule by thieves) is a pejorative, informal term for a government so corrupt that no pretense of honesty remains. In a kleptocracy the mechanisms of government are almost entirely devoted to taxing the public at large in order to amass substantial personal fortunes for the rulers and their cronies (collectively, kleptocrats), or to keep said rulers in power. Kleptocrats typically use money laundering and/or anonymous banking to protect and conceal their illegal gains.

Kleptocracies are by and large dictatorships or some other form of autocratic government, since democracy makes thievery more difficult to accomplish and conceal. Kleptocratic states consistently tend to be politically and socially unstable, while being stably kleptocratic. That is, the political governance of such states typically consists of one set of thieves displacing their predecessors by subversive or violent means.

The economies of kleptocracies tend to perform badly, as the systematic corruption engendered by kleptocratic governance means that the economy is subordinated to the interests of the kleptocrats. Kleptocrats realize that they have more to gain from taking a large share of a stable or shrinking pie than from a shrinking share of an increasing pie. Economies based on the extraction of natural resources (eg. diamonds and oil in a few prominent cases) can be particularly prone to kleptocracy, as the kleptocrats simply tax the Ricardian rent. Historically, the socio-political environment associated with colonial rule - in particular the dominance of colonial economies by a small number of commodities - has been particularly conducive to the later creation of kleptocracies, especially in Africa and South America.

The creation of a kleptocracy typically results in many years of general hardship and suffering for the vast majority of citizens as civil society and the rule of law distintegrates. In addition, kleptocrats routinely ignore economic and social problems in their quest to amass ever more wealth. As kleptocrats do not attempt to build or maintain functioning states, or even maintain large security forces for fear of coups d'état, kleptocracies are generally incompetent in the face of social crises, and often collapse into prolonged civil war and anarchy.

Some observers use the term 'kleptocracy' to disparage political processes which permit corporations to influence political policy. Ralph Nader called the United States a kleptocracy in this sense of the word during the 2000 US presidential campaign. A more accurate term for this influence over a state is plutocracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

[fasttense]

10. Well his boss is a Repuke

"In one of the greatest upsets in the annals of Louisiana politics, Councilman Phil Capitano beat the overwhelming favorite, established candidate and Police Chief Nick Congemi, to become mayor of Kenner. More importantly, Capitano became the first Republican since Reconstruction to claim a majority of the African-American electorate over a credible Democratic candidate."

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20040315w

Though Cedric Floyd was actually hired by the previous Mayor two months before the end of his term.

Notice this Repuke only got voted in AFTER the city got "redistricted". Cedric Floyd was involved in the redistricting.

"Cedric Floyd, a Kenner demographer and redistricting analyst, said the federal government generally allows redistricting changes to help incumbents."

http://www.fairvote.org/redistricting/reports/remanual/lanews.htm

Seems their new Mayor is a typical repuke liar and thief and not loved.

"Supporters and detractors of the administration of Mayor Phil Capitano - now being labeled, respectively, as "Pocket Pals" and "Cave-Dwellers" - sat on opposite sides of the room last Thursday, trading applause and jeers for and against their sides. Mayor Capitano created the label for his critics during a series of town hall meetings last week, blasting Citizens Against Virtually Everything. And the anti-administration bloc labeled Capitano supporters as "Pocket Pals," derived from claims that the mayor has four council members - Kent Denapolis, Marc Johnson, Jeannie Black and Michele Branigan - "in his pocket.""

Not to mention little Cedric defended the Mayor's huge expense accounts.

"The display set off an immediate backlash from Floyd and Chief of Staff Phil Ramon, who railed at the idea that anyone should question the mayor's expenses."

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/print070513.html

Just a little background info.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. This is certainly an interesting can of worms

Jefferson Parrish is also home of the Gretna Police.

However Cedric may be registered Dem or was at one time? He kind of reminds me of Ezzie Thomas down in Orlando.

[MaineDem]

13. Is this the guy who was on with Anderson Cooper?

Arguing with the Police Chief, Congemi, about the lack of response to the homeless Hispanic population?

[jus_the_facts]

15. That's Brittany Spears hometown....go figure....

:eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Small world

another small town, full of small minded people.

[Megahurtz]

20. Fucking Sick!

:puke: