Aaron Francis Broussard was born on January 6,1949 and is a former American politician who served as the president, a combined municipal-parish position, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, from 2003 to 2010.
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Aaron Broussard was born in Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana.
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Aaron Broussard moved to Kenner, a city in Jefferson Parish, in 1958.
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Aaron Broussard earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University New Orleans in 1973.
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In 1974, Aaron Broussard was elected to the Jefferson Parish School Board and re-elected in 1976.
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Aaron Broussard successfully ran for mayor of Kenner in 1982, and he was reelected in 1986,1990, and 1994.
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Aaron Broussard was elected chairman of the Jefferson Parish Council in 1995, and reelected in 1999.
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Aaron Broussard was president of Parishes Against Coastal Erosion and in a June 14,2005, press release predicted:.
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Aaron Broussard defended his actions, saying that he wanted to protect the pump operators' lives, even though some pump operators were willing to stay.
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Aaron Broussard finished with a tearful account of the death by drowning of his emergency services manager's mother.
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Aaron Broussard said that the story had been relayed to him by his staff, and that he had chosen not to ask his emergency manager for the exact circumstances of her death.
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Aaron Broussard called the response to Katrina "One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever" and went on to say that FEMA had not only failed to meet his parish's need but actively withheld aid and cut his lines of communication:.
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On September 25,2005, Aaron Broussard reappeared on Meet the Press, and host Tim Russert challenged Aaron Broussard's account of the tragedy on the basis that his anecdote about the woman in the nursing home contained factual discrepancies noted in the MSNBC story.
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Aaron Broussard has never acknowledged making an error in his original appearance though he did give this response:.
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On December 6,2005 the Jefferson Parish Action Committee filed a petition with the Louisiana Secretary of State to recall Aaron Broussard and remove him as President of Jefferson Parish.
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Aaron Broussard won re-election narrowly with 52 percent of the vote over Leone.
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The East Bank of Jefferson went for Leone while Aaron Broussard carried the West Bank.
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At the Alliance for Good Government forum Aaron Broussard refused to say he would stop taking money from Parish contractors.
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Aaron Broussard resigned his position on January 8,2010, in the face of a grand jury investigation of his staff.
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On September 24,2012, Aaron Broussard pleaded guilty in federal court to two felony counts based on payroll fraud involving his ex-wife.