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To: carranza2 who wrote (136863)	9/3/2005 1:45:18 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

c2...What's the story behind the marinas and casino? Daniels disputes criticism of budget work September 3, 2005 indystar.com Gov. Mitch Daniels is disputing reports that as White House budget director, he failed to give the Army Corps of Engineers enough money to prepare for the kind of devastation Hurricane Katrina has wrought. Daniels, director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to mid-2003, said Friday that any limitations put on the corps' budget "had to do with trying to get them to concentrate . . . on locks and dams and levees instead of marinas and resorts." And, he added, "the Army Corps of Engineers has a very large budget that's grown a lot over recent years." Critics told The Washington Post that President Bush has repeatedly requested less money for programs to guard against catastrophic storms in New Orleans. Michael Parker, a former Republican congressman from Mississippi who was forced to resign as a chief of the Army Corps of Engineers after clashes with the budget office in 2002, singled out Daniels in an interview with Government Executive magazine. Jane Jankowski, Daniels' press secretary, called Parker's criticisms of Daniels "an attempt at revenge by Mike Parker." Parker, in the magazine's on-line edition at www.govexec.com, said he showed Daniels two pieces of steel, one new and one corroded, that had been in a Mississippi lock for 30 years. "I said, 'Mitch, it doesn't matter if a terrorist blows the lock up or if it falls down because it disintegrates. Either way it's the same effect, and if we let it fall down, we have only ourselves to blame,' " Parker said. "It made no impact on him whatsoever." -- Mary Beth Schneider