That rotting food need to be rubbed in this Trump-hating pig's face.
Posted on 08/13/2018 7:04:01 AM PDT by pgkdan
Thousands of pounds of relief supplies for Puerto Rico, sent after Hurrican Maria decimated the island, have been found rotting in a state elections warehouse, according to the New York Times.
The supplies were supposed to have been distributed by the national guard.
The Hill:
The Times noted that local radio station, Radio Isla, published a video showing cases of items such as beans, Tylenol and water covered in rat and lizard droppings.
According to the Times, the Puerto Rico elections commission offices were used as a collection center for donations from private entities and nonprofit groups after the island was ravaged by Hurricane Maria last year. Once they were collected, the donations were then distributed by the National Guard.
As the severity of the crisis diminished, the donations were then reportedly stored in trailers in the parking lot of the election bureau’s San Juan offices, where they remained despite continued problems in the region.
Officials confirmed to the Times that the items had remained in trailers for almost a year.
“I agree, it should have been handed out as soon as possible,” Maj. Paul Dahlen, a spokesman for the National Guard, told the Times, adding that some of the materials were received after the National Guard ended its mission in May.
Nicolás Gautier, interim president of the elections council, told CBS News that "whatever was left after the National Guard left was put in those containers.”
“In one of these containers was food for dogs and apparently several of the boxes were broken," he added. "After the placement in the van, that brings a lot of rats and it infected everything.”
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But you have to wonder how many other distribution points on the island also have trailers full of aid. The point being, the national guard is not under federal control. It is run by the state government, who also dropped the ball on distributing FEMA supplies in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane.
Trump was blamed for an inadequate response - just like Bush was blamed for Katrina screw ups. The media was strangely quiet during the Obama years when natural disasters hit, despite similar screw ups in the aid pipeline.
If this could have been done Hurricane Katrina to embarrass Bush, it would have been done.
Not the National Guards fault...The Puerto Rican leaders were responsible for picking this stuff up. The National Guard doesn't distribute directly to the people at some point.
I say send in the armed forces to get supplies moving and at least nominal infrastructure.
The plan is to get Puerto Ricans to flee to Florida and thus tip the electoral votes.
So they can blame it on Trump.
“The plan is to get Puerto Ricans to flee to Florida and thus tip the electoral votes.”
Shhhhhhhhhh...that’s a secret...
BINGO!
BULLETIN: Trump refuses to personally deliver supplies to helpless Puerto Ricans!
Doesn’t surprise me one bit, the way truck drivers and such had their hands out. Somebody didn’t get paid, so relief supplies didn’t get distributed. The only other likely scenario is that screeching harpy if a mayor hid the supplies so they wouldn’t show up on camera and shatter her narrative about how the US is racist and stuff. Sorry, my give-a-damn is broken.
PR is one of many Latino run boondoggles. Case in point.
That rotting food need to be rubbed in this Trump-hating pig's face.
The mayor could not find a buyer to get rid of her Trump finger pointing crime.
That cow, she said that aid couldn’t get to the island.
And yet.... somehow... she could get a freshly printed leftist buzzword teeshirt?
Nasty woman...
What happens when the Democrats control the local government. You can bet that this story will never appear on 60 Minutes.
The reason this was left by the DIMwit loser LIB politicians to rot was that they couldn’t figure-out how to steal it without being caught.
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