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Bush officials blame locals: "05/09/2005 08:36 - (SA)

Washington - Since two days after Hurricane Katrina lashed much of the Gulf Coast into oblivion, President George W Bush hasn't gone a day without a public event devoted to the storm.
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Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, just south of New Orleans, broke down on NBC's Meet the Press when he talked about people who waited for help.

'They were told like me, every single day, the cavalry's coming, on a federal level. The cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming. I have just begun to hear the hoofs of the cavalry ...,' Broussard said.

'They've had press conferences - I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sakes, shut up and send us somebody.'"