Rep. Chet Edwards opens home to evacuees

[CoolOnion]

Once again, a Democrat has stepped up to the plate, proving that real Christians "walk the walk." Chet Edwards (TX-17--whose congressional district includes Bush's fake "hometown" of Crawford) has opened his home to evacuees:

From Dallas Morning News:
Lawmaker opens home to evacuees
Edwards residence is mostly empty during school year

http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-katedwards_08nat.ART.State.Edition2.37a05c0.html

Did I mention he's a Democrat? Well of course! Would a Republican be so generous?

Excerpt:
WASHINGTON – The Texas home of Waco Rep. Chet Edwards sat unused much of the time. It doesn't now. He has turned it over to a family that fled Hurricane Katrina. "I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing we had a vacant home in Waco, where there were children of evacuees," said Mr. Edwards, an eight-term Democrat whose wife, Lea Ann, suggested loaning out their three-bedroom house since they and their two kids spend the school year in Washington.

For Johnnie Marchand, the generosity in the face of her loss is remarkable. As Katrina bore down on New Orleans and its ferocity became clear, the 46-year-old widow left home in Algiers, across the Mississippi River from downtown, piling into a car with a son, daughter and two grandkids, 3-year-old Mia and 4-year-old Quinn...A Red Cross worker suggested Waco. They found the Seventh and James Baptist Church. Mr. Edwards showed up the next day.

She had no idea he was the local congressman. "He had on his shorts and baseball cap and T-shirt. He said, 'Lemme take you somewhere and show you a place I might have available,' " she said. "Stone-pebble walkway. All this wood. ... It's a beautiful place." They moved in on Saturday. The kids love the treehouse and backyard trampoline...Mr. Edwards said he will stay with in-laws or friends when he returns to Waco on weekends. "It's a small inconvenience compared to what these people have been through," he said.

[sonias]

1. Good for him

Thank you Chet Edwards!

Sonia

[efhmc]

2. I so love Chet, He is a real humane person. I wish he had not been

redistricted out of my area.

[Goldensilence]

3. wow

....makes me more proud to have him as a rep now.