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...ran into Roderick Miller this morning.  We talked for most of an hour.  It seems the Beau Rivage was not so happy to be mentioned as an employer of a Gulf oil spill victim in a national newspaper (USA Today, Dec 27, 2010).  But, to their credit, are now on board with supporting employees in filing claims.  We rehashed a lot of this long gccf business.  And what a hash it has become.  The gccf continues to give us a little of this and a little of that, bits of hope, resulting in really nothing true at all.  We are happy to hear that our elected representatives believe that gccf will process and pay our claims in a positive and timely manner.  The roller coaster continues.  After having been deceived so many times since Oct 10, it is hard for us to be totally optimistic.

In the ninety days from Aug 23 to Nov 23, gccf processed almost 1/2 million claims.  In the next ninety days from Nov 24 to Feb 24, they will have processed exactly ONE claim.  That one claim defines irrefutably that gccf is NOT independent from bp.  That one claim was paid without gccf review (according to Ken Feinberg) simply because bp ordered that it be paid.

Mr. Feinberg, it is NOT your money!  That $20 billion is committed entirely to rebuilding the Gulf Coast.  LET IT GO ! ! !