Meeting with Mayor Capitano of Kenner, LA

Hoboken (my adopted hometown), adopted Kenner LA as a sister city and offered to help with post-Hurricane recovery efforts. Party With Purpose was asked to assist, but we had already committed to donate funds to the NO Boys and Girls Club. Hoboken's efforts to help continue and I will continue to support those efforts as an individual or as president of PWP.

Since I was in the area, I asked Hoboken City Councilman Chris Campos to put me in touch with Kenner Mayor Philip Capitano. I ended up having a great meeting with him last night. I had no idea what to expect, but I found him to be intelligent, honest, and warm. He is extremely grateful of Hoboken's assistance and even visited Hoboken last week to thank the city for our help. We discussed life, charity work, politics and most importantly, the recovery efforts. He has a host of challenges. He was kind enough to give us lapel pins of the official Kenner seal and logo. Many of his residents haven't returned and many that have don't have anywhere to live so they are living in tents. He said FEMA was akin to "water". "Everytime you think you have a grasp of it (and the people in charge) it seems to slip through through your fingers". On top of all this, he is in a bitter battle with his Police Chief, who is an elected official like him. Both are running against each other in the next Mayor election taking place in April. For more info click on these links: Kenner, Mayor Capitano, Hoboken Assists Kenner. (I thought I had a picture, but it looks like it didn't work. Bummer.)