Gulf firms losing cleanup contracts

[Crazy Cooter]

So much for that promise:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9586284/
"Companies outside the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have received more than 90 percent of the money from prime federal contracts for recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of available government data."


"Meanwhile, many local firms that want to work with the government say they continue to meet with frustration. Kendall Prewett said he has been trying for weeks to get government subcontracting work for his Mississippi-based debris removal firm, B & P Enterprises, but that neither the government nor the prime contractor, Florida-based AshBritt Inc., is returning his calls. "I don't understand why all these people not from here are working, and the Mississippi contractors aren't," he said."

[MameJunkie]

The local companies need to have a executive that is a friend of the administration.  Bush is very good to his friends.  They just have to ask...no experience necessary.

[ChadTower]

I would bet that most of the local contractors, in LA anyway, had their capacity and equipment wrecked by the storms.

That doesn't excuse not giving work to the firms that can do it, though.

[danny_galaga]

what, no haliburton  . not even the aussie company Lend Lease (which got to clean up in NYC after Sept 11, 2001)