Rockey From NOLA Is A Ringer. "Wish Bush Could Be Re-Elected" My Ass.

Wed Aug 23, 2006 at 03:37:08 PM PDT Crossposted at Daily Kos


Did that sentence set off anyone elses' warning bells?

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Here's so here's what Rockey told the nation just now on TV:

You know, it's really amazing when a small man like me from St. Bernard Parish can meet the President of the United States. The President is a people person. I knew that from the beginning. I was confident that I could meet President Bush.

And my mission was very simple. I wanted to thank President Bush for the millions of FEMA trailers that were brought down there. They gave roofs over people's head. People had the chance to have baths, air condition. We have TV, we have toiletry, we have things that are necessities that we can live upon.

But now, I wanted to remind the President that the job's not done, and he knows that. And I just don't want the government and President Bush to forget about us. And I just wish the President could have another term in Washington.

If he had only stopped before he outed himself.








Here are a couple of choice tidbits you should know about him.

In fact, we had a hunch -- that maybe, just maybe, Rockey Vaccarella had a background himself in GOP politics.

And, whaddya know? Turns out that the earthy Vaccarella -- a highly successful businessman in the fast-food industry -- is indeed a Republican pol, having run unsuccessfully under the GOP banner for a seat on the St. Bernard Parish commission back in 1999. We don't have a good link, but here (via Nexis) is part of his bio that ran in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on Oct. 15, 1999:

ROCKEY VACCARELLA

PERSONAL

Republican

35. Born in New Orleans. Grew up in Arabi and Chalmette. Lived 11 years in

Meraux.

Married, two children.

Graduated from Chalmette High, 1982. Attended St. Bernard Community

College.
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