“Ordinarily, the best thing I could even think of saying about a week in early September is that Alabama beat Clemson in football Saturday night. But instead my home district just dodged a bullet from Hurricane Gustav and now I’m at a convention celebrating a true maverick. Compared to what could have happened, I feel awfully good right now,” said Rep. Jo Bonner, of Mobile, Ala., whose district suffered back-to-back damage in 2004 and 2005 from hurricanes Ivan and Katrina.
