(BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.) Federally indicted, but still, the Mayor of Bayou La Batre, Stan Wright appeared for the first council meeting since the charges were handed up.
Mayor Wright didn't have anything to say about the investigation, but he did have a lot of say about his city, so did some residents.
"I want him out, soon as possible and I want him to go to federal prison," says Bayou La Batre Resident, Rosie Robbins. She's upset because she says the city was supposed to use FEMA money following Hurricane Katrina, to complete work on her home. "My house was supposed to been elevated, FEMA gave them the money, think it got elevated?"
Inside council chambers it was business as usual. Mayor Wright didn't speak out about the charges against him, but we asked, again, about the possibility of him stepping down.
"I've been the mayor for 11 years, people know me, people know me. We don't have a problem working together, we gotta keep, keeping on," says Wright.
City Council member Ida Mae Coleman says she has no control over whether the mayor should step down, but she admitted, his indictment leaves a black eye on her struggling city.
"Yes, yes, it does because we have decent, honest, hard working people out here," says Coleman.
Wright and his daughter, Mary, are facing some serious charges involving alleged FEMA fraud following Hurricane Katrina.
