Despite an invitation by a group of New Orleans women to visit the hurricane-ravaged city, Utah Representatives still have not visited there.
“Women of the Storm” is a group of 140 prominent women from New Orleans who visited Congress in January, to issue the invitations to visit their city. Yeseterday, the opening day of hurricane season, the group dramatically and creatively pointed out that the Utah delegation and 20 other states’ congressional delegations have yet to take them up on their invitation.
They got their message out by standing on a large U.S. map drawn on the grass of Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans’ City Park. Members of the group stood on each state and opened blue umbrellas to symbolize the states that had sent either a senator or a representative. A gap quickly formed near the map’s Great Lakes region and in the Western corner of the United States.
The women said it’s not too late to come and will not let up pressure until all delegations have done so.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 