However, as party lines solidified over the course of the postriot arguments over indemnifying Johnson and others who had lost homes and property in the riots, most editors and politicians who supported the directors and indemnification and decried the disorder became Whigs.
Less sweet was a recent blow from a waning Bush administration that reneged on a promised postriot $1.5 million in antidrug social services money -- to a consortium of which CARECEN was a key member and instigator.
Postriot, CARECEN has been thrust into the center of the action, battling inaction.