Posted on 10/09/2024 8:45:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
A North Carolina mayor has slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for lying about FEMA efforts to assist residents following the catastrophic hurricane Helene.
Newland Mayor Derek Roberts, whose daughter’s house was destroyed by the hurricane, revealed she was denied the $750 FEMA payment.
“My daughter, whose house got completely wiped out – she has no flood insurance – meets with a FEMA person, applies for everything, doesn’t get the $750 that Kamala says she’s supposed to get. Gets approved for $300 for personal items. What is that gonna do?” Roberts asked in outrage.
More than a week after the storm made landfall, officials are still struggling to keep up with relief requests.
According to Blaze TV’s Glenn Beck, who spoke with FEMA sources, officials are more interested in shutting down makeshift helicopter rescue runs than helping stranded residents.
“Her entire first floor is literally wiped out,” Roberts continued as he described his adult daughter’s ordeal.
“Everything hauled everything off. So where is FEMA?”
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The news comes as hurricane Milton heads towards Florida.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden announced plans to delay overseas travel, appearing to acknowledge the political damage being done to Harris and Democrats.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said that FEMA does not have the funds to last the entire storm season.
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded to Mayorkas:
“My office has been in contact with whistleblowers in numerous emergency-management functions at the federal, state, and local levels, and they all point to the same critical mismanagement issues,” Gaetz writes.
“FEMA has wasted taxpayer funds, misappropriated funds, and left other federal, state, and local responders without deployment orders on the ground. As reported and further confirmed by my office, hundreds, if not thousands of service members were deployed by the Department of Defense to North Carolina and have sat idle, waiting for FEMA.”
“We have confirmed FEMA employees deployed, on the clock, awaiting orders in hotels. FEMA pre-disaster aid was withheld, exacerbating the emergency. It is also public that NGOs have purchased airline tickets for migrants through the use of FEMA funds.”
I see the necessity to make sure that people aren’t gaming the system and stealing the money, but this shows the stupidity of the federal government.
If she had worn fatigues with a Blue and Yellow flag on the shoulder things would’ve gone differently.
No kidding, she would have had millions!
FEMA may have thought since she is the Mayor’s daughter, she has easy access to some quick cash to tide her over during this hurricane. Even still. $200 or $300 is “crumbs”when faced with total devastation.
It's not stupidity.
It's malfeasance.
Deliberate, unmitigated evil intent.
Let's call it what it is. Stupidity can explain a blunder or two. This kind of long term, nefarious action can be nothing but deliberate by people who have sold their soul to the Devil.
Maybe the mayor’s daughter doesn’t vote the right way. Would like to know the politics of the individuals who did get the $750.
Is it true that people who take that $750 are required to sign a note to pay it back?
Ain’t it ‘funny’ how these cities on a ‘Smart Cities list are being demolished through nature so they will have to be rebuilt from the ground up?
Democrat politicians are a large group of grifters.
While our clown in chief accuses Trump of an “onslaught of lies”. Just forget about “the border is secure”, and “Bidenomics is working!”, and “It’s a Russian laptop”, and so many other lies the bastard and his admin have made.
I think it’s great that the govt help save lives in a crisis.
But why should we give tax dollars to someone who failed to buy flood nsurance?
Well, the daughter is white (I assume), so there’s that.
Didn’t Bitch Harris say payments would be based on DEI? It’s part of an old EO just reinstated that requires that white folk would be last to receive assistance, and white males would be absolute last.
This was discussed on Newsmax yesterday — Greg Kelly, I think (but am not sure).
I think that everyone who discriminates against whites — even if it’s other whites — should be prohibited from using or having anything that was invented by white people. Electric lights (Thomas Edison), clothing made of cotton on a sewing machine (Eli Whitney / Elias Howe), medicine like polio vaccines (Jonas Salk), cars (Karl Benz / Henry Ford), telephone (Alexander Graham Bell). I’m actually serious. Even if they’re not prohibited, they should be informed every hour of every day they’d have no life if it weren’t for us.
Then tell us how terrible white folk are.
Is it a $750 Relief Payment or is it a $750 Relief Loan?!?
Flood insurance is only available if the home is located in a federally designated flood zone. These zones are identified along known water systems and courses. I don’t know the particulars in this case but from some of the videos I seen, torrential flows coming down the hills through the draws did massive damage. These draws don’t necessarily qualify as flood zones if they don’t have historic water flow data.
Vote Republican if you can. Some of this might have been averted if not for the mess in Washington D.C.
In some ways that means the regulations are written bass-akwards. Emergency relief should apply first for flood damage outside of “flood zones” as within flood zones you can buy FEMA flood insurance and thus have some coverage.
Of course this whole system is a make-work scam for federal bureaucrats and only exists due to Democrats historic hatred of blacks. State run emergency relief in the south was stacked against minorities and the poor. Feds stepped in to stop Jim Crow era racism set up by Democrats.
If you call it a student loan, Biden will forgive it.
I’m in the Flood Zone. My house was annihilated...ALL of my possessions...gone. We took this $750 offer as an insult, and so does everyone else.
Didn’t Kamala say something to the effect that there would be LGBQT+ equity considerations. Perhaps the daughter should have come in with her wife.
Yea, that fatcat mayor probably earns $3000 a year doing that side job. Maybe less.
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