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John McCain's Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina

By Jonathan Stein
From motherjones.com
April 25th, 2008
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motherjones.com — Lamenting the pace of recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, John McCain promised, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country." But McCain's record suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution.

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