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With FEMA aid to rebuild from riots denied, Minnesota looks elsewhere
startribune.com ^ | 7/11/2020 | KATY READ

Posted on 07/11/2020 6:16:53 PM PDT by bitt

As Minnesota leaders pondered their next steps, it's not yet clear what other sources of funds they may tap.

Denied federal aid to help rebuild burned-out, vandalized businesses in the wake of riots that followed George Floyd’s killing, Minnesota leaders pondered their next steps Saturday.

But it’s not yet clear what other sources of funds they may tap.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Friday denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for nearly $16 million in aid to help rebuild and repair structures in Minneapolis and St. Paul, many of them left in ruins by the riots and fires that erupted during protests of Floyd’s May 25 death while in Minneapolis police custody.

On July 2, Walz had asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his request to FEMA. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz. The $16 million would have been used to reimburse local governments for debris clearing, repair and rebuilding costs.

In a prepared statement, FEMA said Saturday that after “a thorough review,” the agency determined “that the impact to public infrastructure is within the capabilities of the local and state governments to recover from.”

On Saturday, Walz’s spokesman, Teddy Tschann, said the governor had little to add to his Friday statement expressing disappointment with FEMA’s denial. Tschann said Walz is considering appealing the decision, which he has 30 days to do.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bailout; civilunrest; fema; georgefloydriots; minnesota; riots
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1 posted on 07/11/2020 6:16:53 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

AW, WHATTA SHAME....


2 posted on 07/11/2020 6:17:11 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: bitt

Maybe China will pay him for serving China.
Or maybe not.

(Doesn’t hurt to ask.)


3 posted on 07/11/2020 6:18:30 PM PDT by mrsmith (US Media: "Every cop is a criminal; ALL the sinners saints!")
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To: bitt
On July 2, Walz had asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota

Can the President declare Walz to be a "major disaster" for the state of Minnesota and have him replaced?

4 posted on 07/11/2020 6:18:43 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: bitt

The DNC sponsored the riots. Let them pay for it.


5 posted on 07/11/2020 6:20:23 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: bitt

President Trump did a rally in Minneapolistan last year. The mayor and the governor treated him like dirt.

Payback sucks.


6 posted on 07/11/2020 6:24:00 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Libloather

Call Soros, Obama & Biden and Biden’s criminal, druggie son, Hunter....they will fork the cash over immediately...wishful thinking!!! Minneapolis & Minnesota you hung your selves...now burn in hell forever!!! You get what you vote for!!!


7 posted on 07/11/2020 6:24:46 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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Letting people riot and commit mayhem is not a disaster it's a dereliction of duty. Just like not being able to collect insurance from setting fire to your own house give them nothing.
8 posted on 07/11/2020 6:26:41 PM PDT by JMS
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To: bitt

Let them rebuild from the defunded police budget.


9 posted on 07/11/2020 6:27:38 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: bitt

Send the bill to George Soros.


10 posted on 07/11/2020 6:27:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Thanks for the post/ping. GRRRREAT news! HOORAY FEMA! (can’t believe I just said HOORAY FEMA!)


11 posted on 07/11/2020 6:29:00 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: mrsmith

Maybe Somalia will give the city a low interest loan.


12 posted on 07/11/2020 6:29:19 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: bitt

What? You mean Ilhan Omar isn’t bringing home the bacon?
Oh yeah…haram.


13 posted on 07/11/2020 6:29:40 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: bitt
They could have stopped the destruction, but did not.

I think the president offered to send troops and they refused the help.

They deserve no help. Maybe next time they will remember that there are consequences for not standing up to criminals.

14 posted on 07/11/2020 6:31:22 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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15 posted on 07/11/2020 6:35:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: bitt

Like a spoiled brat breaking his toys and then asking mommy and daddy to buy new ones. NOPE!


16 posted on 07/11/2020 6:35:45 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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It was a self inflicted disaster.

The local government could have stopped it.

They chose not to, because, Orange Man Bad.

For Decades, the taxpayer has been paying the Dane-Geld for Leftist extortion.

I have modified Kipling's poem, for a parody which reflects the situation the progressives have placed us in:

Paying Progressive Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an entitled population
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We rioted last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation,  with Orwellian dictation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“You are oppressed. White men caused this mess.
We will pay you public cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation to a youthful population,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”

We have been paying Dane-Geld to progressive ideologists and cultural Marxists  for more than 50 years. The cost has been in the trillions. The damage done to our society, moral and Constitutional norms, is incalculable.  It must be stopped, before our nation is lost. We came very close to losing the nation.

Now, with the election of President Trump, who refuses to play the game, we have a chance to stop paying the Dane-Geld. The leftist run cities and states who have been using other peoples money to buy votes for 50 years, will insist the best thing to do, is to ramp up the Dane-Geld payments.

17 posted on 07/11/2020 6:36:14 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: bitt

Well, the “leadership” should have stopped the destruction instead of egging it on.


18 posted on 07/11/2020 6:36:30 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: bitt

Ask the leader of CHAZ.


19 posted on 07/11/2020 6:36:36 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: bitt

Don’t give them a dime. The tornado that devastated Minneapolis was manmade and created by their Dem leadership.


20 posted on 07/11/2020 6:36:38 PM PDT by chuckee
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