The bill included tax break extensions for folks suffering from Hurricane Ike. In case y'all didn't know, LA-01 suffered from some pretty bad flooding during Ike. But the bill didn't include one parish from LA-01 as being eligible for those tax breaks.
Yet Mr. Scalise chose to get political attention for himself by railing against Wall Street, and voting Nay on the bailout. He even took the time to call into WWL on Thursday and talk with constituents about his opposition to the bailout.
Had he been doing his job as an advocate for LA-01, he would have fought to get LA-01 parishes included in the Hurricane Ike tax breaks. Some of y'all might say that he was opposed to the bill, so why would he include things in it? Folks, while on WWL on Thursday, he stated that he knew the bill would pass. If he knew it would pass, you would think he'd try to help out his own constituents, no? That is what we sent him there to do, right?
