The President of the United States has to step up to the plate. We're begging him. I looked him in the eye for two hours. He cares about us. I could tell because he made the Coast Guard implement our dredge -- our jack-up boats. We have them out there on the front line. He needs to step up to the plate, put somebody in charge that will protect the wetlands and will keep this oil out.
Nungesser urges President Obama to take decisive action and leadership in response to the oil spill disaster.
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We want to know everything. We want to know where is the money. We want to know why they're dragging their feet on the cleanup and why they're not giving us the assets they promised to leave here.
No. There's been a lot of excuses. Early on, the oyster beds, for instance, it's a three or four-year process. They came in and said, 'OK, we're going to make it right; we're going to pay you for four years.' Then they turned around and…
It's been one lie after another. And the long-term effects of that oil out there, we don't know.
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