“I’m having a Katrina flashback,” said the Bay St. Louis Democrat after an aerial survey of the Mississippi Sound and barrier islands Saturday morning. “I haven’t seen this much incompetence since Michael Brown was running FEMA.”

Brown was the FEMA director who was fired for a faulty response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Taylor flew with U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo, as far east as Ship Island and west to Cat Island from the Gulfport airport on a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter.

via Rep. Gene Taylor: Response to Gulf of Mexico oil spill incompetent | gulflive.com.

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