Rockey Vaccarella
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Rockey Vaccarella is a resident of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
and a Hurricane Katrina
survivor/activist. He attracted international attention in August 2006 for driving his Federal Emergency Management Agency
trailer to the White House
to thank President George W. Bush
for the mobile homes provided to Katrina victims by the federal government. He is also a former GOP candidate for city council in St. Bernard Parish.
Vaccarella thanked the President for his efforts in aiding Katrina victims:
Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi
called the press conference a "public relations blitz that the survivors of Katrina [could] ill afford."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082300776.html
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
and a Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
survivor/activist. He attracted international attention in August 2006 for driving his Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...
trailer to the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
to thank President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
for the mobile homes provided to Katrina victims by the federal government. He is also a former GOP candidate for city council in St. Bernard Parish.
Bush press conference with Vaccarella
President Bush and Vaccarella met together in a White House press conference on August 23, 2006. Bush began by introducing Vaccarella:Vaccarella thanked the President for his efforts in aiding Katrina victims:
Political response
DemocraticDemocratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
Minority Leader
Minority leader
In U.S. politics, the minority leader is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat, with their counterpart being of the opposite party. The position...
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011...
called the press conference a "public relations blitz that the survivors of Katrina [could] ill afford."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082300776.html