MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST RELIEF MEASURES FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA MULTIPLE TIMES

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MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST RELIEF MEASURES FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA MULTIPLE TIMES

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McCain And Katrina Ravaged New Orleans: Facts vs Spin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/24/mccain-and-katrina-ravage_n_98470.html

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McCain voted against relief measures for Katrina victims multiple times, as well as voting against an investigation into the failures of the government response. McCain also voted against providing additional funding for first responders' communication systems, despite claiming today:

We know that we had a situation where first responders were unable to communicate with each other. Where government agencies were getting information by watching cable television, rather than having a flow of information themselves.

As for solutions, John McCain told reporters he didn't know if he'd rebuild the lower 9th ward as president. "That is why we need to go back is to have a conversation about what to do -rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is," he said.

DNC - McCain Myth Buster: John McCain and the Gulf Coast

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2008/0004799604&EDATE=

Today's McCain Myth: John McCain will do a heckuva job on Gulf Coast recovery.

WASHINGTON, April 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

The following is being issued by the Democratic National Committee:

Just this week John McCain said that "(t)here must be no forgotten places in America" and is
traveling to New Orleans today to make the case. But don't believe the rhetoric. The fact is,
McCain has a history of denying the Gulf Coast aid when it needs it most and a record of
outrageous votes to show for it.

Instead of helping the area rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and the people of New Orleans and
the Gulf Coast get back on their feet, McCain actually voted to deny emergency funding to the
area, and he voted against giving victims of Katrina access to Medicaid and unemployment benefits.

McCain Campaign Email, 4/22/08;

2006 Senate Vote #112, 5/4/2006;
2005 Senate Vote #285, 11/3/2005;
2006 Senate Vote #6, 2/2/2006;
2005 Senate Vote #229, 9/14/2005;
2005 Senate Vote #234, 9/15/2005

Sure sounds like McCain would be more of the same Bush-Brownie inaction for the Gulf Coast.

And that's the last thing Louisiana -- or the rest of America -- needs.

MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST RELIEF MEASURES FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA

McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief.

McCain voted against passage of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations of 2006.
It would provide more than $28 billion for hurricane relief, approximately $2.3
billion for pandemic flu preparations and $1.9 billion for border security efforts.
(2006 Senate Vote #112, 5/4/2006)

McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims.

McCain voted against an amendment to provide emergency health care and other relief
for survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The amendment would grant access to Medicaid to
Hurricane Katrina victims for up to five months; it also provided full federal funding
for Medicaid in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for up to one year; provided $800
million to compensate providers caring for Katrina evacuees; it temporarily suspended
the Medicare Part B late enrollment penalty; and permitted states hit by Katrina or
serving evacuees to access the TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) Contingency Fund.
It would be offset with funds unspent by FEMA. (2005 Senate Vote #285, 11/3/2005)

McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina.

McCain voted twice against establishing a Congressional commission to examine Federal,
State, and local response to devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the U.S. Gulf
Region; and making immediate corrective measures to improve future responses.
(2006 Senate Vote #6, 2/2/2006; 2005 Senate Vote #229, 9/14/2005)

McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina.

In 2005, McCain voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits
to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina. (2005 Senate Vote #234, 9/15/2005)

After casting himself as a "Maverick" in 2000, the new John McCain is walking in lockstep with
President Bush, pandering to the right wing of the Republican Party, and embracing the ideology
he once denounced. On the campaign trail McCain has callously abandoned many of his previously
held positions, even contradicted himself, in a blatant attempt to remake himself into a candidate
Republicans can accept in 2008. So just who is the real John McCain? The Democratic National
Committee will present a daily fact aimed at exposing the man behind the myth.

Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee,
http://www.democrats.org.

This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

SOURCE Democratic National Committee

President Bush holds up a birthday cake for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., upon his arrival
at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Az., Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. McCain turned 69 Monday.
Bush is traveling and will attend "conversations" with experts and the elderly.

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana with 125 mph winds.