Vice President Joe Biden tours South Los Angeles housing project - article with pics

[Kadie]

Vice President Joe Biden tours South Los Angeles housing project
2:52 PM | May 15, 2009

Vice President Joe Biden toured a South Los Angeles housing project today and announced that nearly $100 million in federal stimulus funds will be made available to help eliminate dangerous lead-based paint and other health hazards from low-income homes.

“This is a particular plague that adversely hurts children under 6,” Biden told a crowd of residents and community leaders gathered in the courtyard of the Esperanza Community Housing Corp. He was joined by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Simms.

“If our goal is to leave our communities better off than we found them, better off for those who come after, then we have to reduce lead paint in the home and educate families about the hazards that exist.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/vice-president-tours-south-los-angeles-housing-project.html

Romey Galindo, 8, and her brother Tyler, 6, show their room to Vice President Joe Biden and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during a visit Friday, May 15, 2009, to their apartment near downtown Los Angeles. The building formerly was a health hazard because of lead paint, but has since been rehabilitated by the Esperanza Community Housing Organization.
(AP Photo/Pool, Luis Sinco)


Vice President Joe Biden tours an apartment building near downtown Los Angeles with Monic Uriarte, of the Esperanza Community Housing Organization, on Friday, May 15, 2009. Biden announced Friday that nearly $100 million in federal stimulus will go toward a program to remove lead-based paint and other health and safety hazards from low-income homes.
(AP Photo/Pool, Luis Sinco)


Vice President Joe Biden hugs Monic Uriarte, of the Esperanza Community Housing Organization, on a tour of the group's residential units near downtown Los Angeles on Friday, May 15, 2009. Biden announced Friday that nearly $100 million in federal stimulus will go toward a program to remove lead-based paint and other health and safety hazards from low-income homes.
(AP Photo/Pool, Luis Sinco)

[Muttocracy]

1. thanks - a few more photos here

http://www.daylife.com/search/photos/1/grid?q=biden

I love the one at your link of him showing off the limo - he gave some Boy Scouts a tour of a campaign plane last year :)

[Kadie]

4. Yep, that one is adorable.

here is the link...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01156f959fb0970c-pi

[jillan]

6. Is this the one you are referring to?

He is so good with kids.

[Jennicut]

8. I love that one. He seems like he would be the best Grandpa ever.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. Those photos are fake. There is no way the VP flew to LA and then got that close to anyone.

That is if he's following his own advice. Just kidding, glad to hear about the money it is desperately needed.

David

[Cha]

3. I love that VP Biden is

doing on the ground connections like this to highlight just what some of the money in the Recovery Plan is doing.

[Forkboy]

5. K&R for ole Joe.

:kick:

[JDPriestly]

7. This explains why I saw such a flurry of police activity in downtown L.A. yesterday.

There wasn't any huge mass of police, but I would just see and officer or a car every few minutes as I walked around the court house to Alameda area.

Strange sight.