Rockey Vaccarella

Rockey Vaccarella is a Hurricane Katrina survivor and activist from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.

In August 2006, he drove his Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer to the White House to thank President George W. Bush for the mobile homes provided to Katrina victims by the federal government.

President Bush and Vaccarella met together in a White House press conference on August 23, 2006.

He caught my attention because he decided to come up to Washington, D.C. and make it clear to me and others here in the government that there's people down there still hurting in south Louisiana, and along the Gulf Coast.

If we had this President for another four years, I think we'd be great.Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the press conference a "public relations blitz that the survivors of Katrina [could] ill afford.