HMM: La. politician who cast a national spotlight on slow early federal response to Katrina resigns.

Democrat Aaron Broussard resigned Friday as president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans, saying through an attorney that he wanted to “clear the air” amid a federal probe of alleged government corruption. . . . Broussard gave a searing account of Katrina’s destruction on NBC’s “Meet The Press” soon after the 2005 storm, blasting the federal government’s early sluggish response.

He also was heavily criticized for sending parish pump workers away before Katrina hit and flooded thousands of homes.

Stay tuned. (Via Dan Riehl).