Among three candidates - a Green, a Republican, and a Democratic incumbent indicted on multiple corruption charges - Many say Louisiana Green Party candidate MALIK RAHIM is the only one who truly looked after the people of New Orleans, the people of the Ninth Ward, etc., after the scandal of the levees that were allowed to break after Hurricane Katrina.
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, Malik Rahim helped to found the grassroots assistance organization known as COMMON GROUND, an organization which:
- opened the first free health clinic in the city of New Orleans
- helped MLK Elementary and other schools to re-open
- gutted over 3,000 homes and provided direct services to nearly 200,000 returning residents