Mike Broussard on mtv

[cbear70]

is he related to Mr. Broussard, the parish president.. can't remember.. but the guy on tv who cried over someone's mother who died in a nursing home??

yeah i know its vague...

he is really good.

[finecraft]

1. Broussard is a pretty common name down here

Marc is from Lafayette, Louisiana. Aaron Broussard is the Jefferson Parish President.

[cbear70]

2. thank you

I screwed that up... I just saw the name and thought.. maybe. Thanks for clearing that up for me....

[lildreamer316]

3. He is so good! Just won me over...

I'm gonna go get his music.

[nickyt]

4. I don't have TV?! but

have been virtually eating the WWLTV blog out of NO these last two weeks. And Aaron Broussard, President of Jeff. Parish, is awesome.
This is from last Tuesday:

11:00 A.M. - (AP): Even as Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters recede from New Orleans, frustration among area officials continues to spill over.


The president of Jefferson Parish says people who were too poor to evacuate are now on the brink of starvation.


Aaron Broussard tells CBS' "The Early Show" these residents had the spirit to endure the forces of Mother Nature, but now their biggest obstacle may be "human nature."


In his words, "Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area." He's demanding a congressional probe into what happened there -- headed by the right person.


As he put it, "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."


Meantime, Broussard is calling for any kind of help. Even a week after Katrina hit, he says locals still "need everything."

[AnnInLa]

5. One of our local boys "made good"

If you come to South Louisiana and look in the phone books, you will see 1 or 2 Smiths. You will see 5,000 Broussards. I would think it is the most common Cajun surname...other common surnames would be Hebert, Breaux, LeBlanc, Meaux, Landry, Gaspard, and many other "funny lookin'" names.

[cbear70]

6. I did not know that

Thanks!!! He was awesome... I would love to have his music as well.

:hi:

[Lindsay]

7. Then there's Ben Broussard.

Plays for the Cleveland Indians.

But he's from a Texas branch of the family. ;)