Posted on 08/19/2016 11:02:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gov. John Bel Edwards was forced to eat his own words when GOP nominee Donald Trump showed up in Baton Rouge today to donate and hand-out supplies for Louisiana flooding victims.
Edwards’ spokesperson was silent on President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s failure to visit the state in the wake of the flooding crisis.
But, the spokesperson took a swipe at Trump, saying he didn’t want him to show up with cameras and not actually help victims.
“Donald Trump hasn’t called the governor to inform him of his visit,” Edwards’ spokesman said. “We welcome him to LA but not for a photo-op. Instead we hope he’ll consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of the storm.”
However, Trump didn’t show up with the media and he came with a truck full of goods for victims.
Take a look:
(VIDEO-AND-TWEET-AT-LINK)
Obama has FEMA money to dole out as if it was his own
( so who is obama lecturing about racism in donations?)
Trump is nongovernmental and does what Trump ,always does
Write a check and/ or work on a network of wealthy donors to write checks
I read it took some time to get this truck lined up and filled with supplies so he knew he was going to Louisana long before it was announced p
The press pool was disinvited from traveling with him
In other words, the Forestry Department needs new blood with new ideas and some plain old common sense.
The Gov. will be getting his photo ops when Obama comes in!
No doubt about that. This is Lousyanna, and he is an Edwards.
Louisiana Republicans, and I’m one of them, didn’t “run” Vitter for office. Louisiana has an open primary, and he was one of several GOP candidates. He got the most votes, so he was in the runoff against Edwards.
Furthermore, Edwards successfully harnessed the teacher’s union and other assorted government deadheads, and turned their hatred of Jindal to his favor.
Combine all the government deadhead vote with the black vote, and you almost have a majority in Louisiana.
“Make a sizeable donation”
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just like bjclinton and Haiti??
the dems would just line their own pockets and the victims would receive NOTHING.
There was still lots of media there, no need for him to show up with his own.
We welcome him to LA but not for a photo-op.
How about Obama or Clinton? Would you welcome them but not for a photo op?
A million spent by Trump for aid supplies was worth far more than spending it on advertising. A smart leader, and he was humble about it, honestly humble. And i KNOW thats stinging the liberals!
I despise most government projects, but every time I hike a trail or visit a national park I’m thankful for the CCC.
A revision of CCC for unemployed able bodied men would be awesome. Refresh trails, clear forests, build new rural roads etc.
I saw the same thing as someone else, Trump got the truck full of supplies ready in advance. Makes sense, you can’t figure out just what they need and get it ready in a day or two. OK maybe Trump can...
I saw baby food, diapers, bundles of socks, toys and shop towels. An article I read listed food supplies and cleaning supplies and blankets too.
One liberal on another forum whined about Trump handing out toys, I asked how many kids just lost every toy they ever had and what was in the truck the poster sent, and listed just what I had seen of what else was unloaded.
No reply.
Trump is nongovernmental and does what Trump ,always does
Write a check and/ or work on a network of wealthy donors to write checks
Trump lives the legend............
Sorry, it was Davey Crockett:
http://www.theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Pl/CrockettWlfr.htm
Col. Davy Crockett on Government Welfare
[COMMENT: This is one of the best pieces on government welfare around. Read it well. See also comments on Athens and democracy. E. Fox]
One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was brought up to appropriate money for the benefit of the widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question to a vote when Colonel David Crockett arose:
“Mr. Speaker, I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, as any man in this House. But we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it.
“We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
“Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bills asks.”
He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed and as, no doubt, it would but for that speech, it received but few votes and was lost.
Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation:
“Several years ago I was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol with some other members of Congress, when our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and drove over as fast as we could. In spite of all that could be done, many houses were burned and many families made homeless and, besides, some of them had lost all but the clothes they had on.
“The weather was very cold and, when I saw so many women and children suffering, I felt that something ought to be done for them. The next morning a bill was introduced, appropriating $20,000 for their relief. We put aside all other business and rushed it through as soon as it could be done.
“The next summer, when it began to be time to think about the election, I concluded I would take a scout around among the boys of my district. I had no opposition there but, as the election was some time off, I did not know what might turn up. When riding one day in a part of my district in which I was more of a stranger than in any other, I saw a man in a field plowing and coming toward the road.
“I gauged my gait so that we should meet as he came to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to the man. He replied politely, but, as I thought, rather coldly.
“I began: ‘Well, friend, I am one of those unfortunate beings called candidates, and - ‘
“’Yes, I know you; you are Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before, and voted for you the last time you were elected. I suppose you are out electioneering now, but you had better not waste your time or mine. I shall not vote for you again.’
“Unh-unh” means “no.” “Uh-huh” means “yes.”
It doesn’t say “the hand-out supplies.”
It says Trump came to “donate and hand-out supplies.”
The hyphen should not be there.
democrats are truly despicable.
While the democraps play checkers,
Mr Trump is playing 4D chess. God bless him
A lot of voters thought they were voting for old Edwin Edwards. Louisiana has a lot of dumb voters.
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