The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Brent Warr!

Usually I don't like having more than one Conservative Fool Of The Day entry in the same day, but I know you're in the mood for yet another game of "guess the party affiliation."

Meet Brent Warr, mayor of Gulfport, Mississippi.

The mayor and his wife Laura are now the subject of a 16-count federal indictment over alleged fraud involving Hurricane Katrina.

If convicted, the Warrs each face up to 210 years in prison and $4,000,000 in fines. They are accused of filing a false claim for disaster assistance, lying to FEMA, stealing government funds, and committing wire and mail fraud.

Articles leave out an important detail about Mayor Warr: his party affiliation. If Warr was a Democrat - or, heaven forfend, a Green - the media wouldn't hesitate to make an issue of it. But locals are on the ball, and they unearthed the fact that Brent Warr is a Republican.

The Bush regime kept insisting folks should blame local politicians - not the federal government - for things that went wrong during the hurricane. This time we will.

(Source: http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/1093278.html)