The Associated Press: Critics: Army Corps' $5.2M PR tab is wasteful spin

The Associated Press: Critics: Army Corps of Engineers' $5.2M PR tab is wasteful spin: "Critics: Army Corps' $5.2M PR tab is wasteful spin
By CAIN BURDEAU – 1 day ago
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A public relations firm boasts it turned around media coverage of the much-maligned Army Corps of Engineers since Hurricane Katrina wiped out sections of New Orleans in 2005 — to the tune of $5.2 million.
But critics say the PR spending was a wasteful move that amounts to little more than spin.

In 2007, the Army Corps in New Orleans awarded the PR contract to Outreach Process Partners Inc., an Annapolis, Md.-based firm. Although the company says the contract is a fraction of the $14.6 billion Congress allocated for improving the region's levee system, a New Orleans-based group has led the public outcry and urged people to send letters to congressional representatives. Some 500 letters have been sent so far, according to the group, Levees.org.
'Now we don't even know how to say 'No comment,' we need to hire people to say that for us,' said Harry Shearer, a New Orleans actor and blogger. He argued the corps is trying to 'keep the knowledge we have in New Orleans limited and parochial and to keep the rest of the country bamboozled.'"

BLOGGERNOTE:
Spending taxpayer money intended to repair the levees to LIE ABOUT HOW WELL THE CORPS IS DOING???

Get a rope.