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Citizen's Notes on Kenner Bad Levees Meeting with Corps shows Times-Picayune bias and Sheila Grissett to be Scoop'Ho Fo'da'Co!~H.J. Bosworth Jr. PE
(Title by Editilla d'Aphasia!:)
~On Thursday January 28th, I attended a meeting and presentation by Representative Ligi of Kenner and the US Army Corps of Engineers regarding the projects that are proposed or that are being constructed for the Lake Pontchartrain lakefront and along the waterway along the west edge of Kenner.
The meeting was seemingly run by Rene' Poche of the Corps. Talks were provided by Mr. Gary Brouse and Brett Herr from the Corps, Representative Ligi and Ms. Fran Campbell of the East Jefferson Levee Authority.

Rene Poche started the presentations with an agenda as a woman from the Corps or from Optimal Process Partners (OPP) acted as recording secretary for the meeting. Others from the Corps / OPP staffed the front desk and asked for everyone in attendance to sign-in and provide contact information. He laid out the agenda and acknowledged that there are persons attending that may not appreciate the Corps. He asked that those with a dislike for the Corps keep personal feelings at the door and try to stick to more civil discussions. He also made a point of telling everyone in the room that no structure can guarantee 100% protection and the best that the Corps can do is to reduce the risk that people have by living where they live.

Representative Ligi spoke and described how he was disgusted with the fact that debris was found in some levee sections in the past few months. Rep Ligi also thanked Sheila Grisset for breaking the story to the public.

Fran Campbell addressed the audience by advising those in attendance that the Levee authority had been discussing the unsuitable material in a public meeting prior to the Times Picayune publishing the article by Sheila Grisset. Apparently, Ms. Grissett was alerted about the material while attending this Levee authority meeting.~Read More
~Editilla steps in with a #50 Louisville Slugga~
Here is where we catch a burr in our asce. Our other source on this meeting (who speaks on the condition of anonymocity) described the scene as one where Grissett (the erroneously cited T-P "reporter"), sitting pretty much with the Corps/OPP people, fawned into the acceptance of the citation --and she let it ride, the Corps/OPP of course let it ride since she is their regular mouf, and the T-P let it ride without reportage, despite the direct contradiction by another Levee Board Member minutes later.
I have had a problem with this Grissett for well about a year now, and particularly over the past 6 months of watching her Milquetoastette coverage of our levees on the punkteat of the Exquisite Corps. That's right. Her articles always read from their point of view as if the Girls of OPP wrote the copy press release for her while they coddled her breakfast with a bottle. My source described a much more Strident Public than did this Grissett.
We have a problem at the T-P in its Corps coverage.
It has dropped the ball completely on the Bad Outfall Pumps, and indeed is doing nothing to investigate Option1 and the incredible $100M Tax Burden the Corps would extort from the city with it.
The T-P/nola.com don't give a rat's ass on a sinking ship about Reporting for New Orleans. They report for ASCECORPS.
We really need harder journalism on this problem between the Corps and the City.
And here we have them in Kenner with over a Mile of Failed Levee and they want to bullshit us with an OPP Presentation through our local news media of... "What You Worry?"
That is Wrong and this Grissett needs to quit and go work for OPP downright outright.
We have problems in Kenner. We have Problems in Orleans.
This OPP Outfit is the very reason the Corps has stymied Levees.org in their FOIR for the record on this forking $5,000,000 Contract.
These people are Succubus Image Narrators (SIN) for the Corps and this Grissett is their little Media Poodle.
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