When it hits the fan and your butt is in trouble, always blame the staff!
Such is the case with Rep Gregory Meeks, Democrat pol and member of the Congressional Black Caucus who can’t seem to remember what happened to over $ 31,000 dollars his non-profit group raised for Hurricane Katrina survivors.
If you expect politicians, especially of the Democrat persuasion, to act like a captian of a ship where everything that goes on on board is his responsibility, think again!
These public servants, like Meeks, only know how to accept praise. But, when it goes bad, it’s the underlings fault.
The New York Post reports:
Embattled Rep. Gregory Meeks ended weeks of dodging yesterday, taking to TV to insist he's in the dark about the gone-missing money from a Hurricane Katrina charity fund he championed.
There is no connection," Meeks said on NY1's "Inside City Hall."
"I was not in charge of administering the funds. It was a community organization."
Later he said, "When community people come and say they want to do good things and they want me to lend my name to it, that's exactly what I would do . . .
"It was never set up for me to oversee. I'm a member of Congress!" he bellowed.
Shortly after the catastrophic 2005 hurricane devastated the Gulf Coast, Meeks told reporters that the NOAH-F funds would help out 30 families who had lost everything.
But after the initial story detailing the unaccounted-for cash, The Post tracked down Louis Rainey, a former Democratic political official in Louisiana whom Meeks had tapped to help identify critically needy families there.
Meeks aide Candace Sandy was given a list of families. But Rainey told The Post they "never saw a dime."
Rainey said Meeks' staffers "came down here, sold a good story and didn't deliver."
Full story
Meeks isn’t the only Democrat politico that uses non-profits to do funny things with taxpayers money. Why do you think Democrats said “nay” to a ban on earmarks for non-profits?
This is the biggest congressional scandal the main stream media purposely does not want to investigate.
Via The New York Post
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