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Hawaii governor: Ex-emergency manager's response "utterly unsatisfactory"
CBS news, MSN ^
| 8/20/23
| Caitlyn Yilek
Posted on 08/20/2023 12:49:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: JZelle
Ouch.
That seems like a crass or facile indictment, JZ.
To: hardspunned
Thanks for the reminder.
That was such an idiotic episode in Hawaii’s recent history.
To: MayflowerMadam
LOL!!! Hawaii is like an INDIAN RESERVATION!
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posted on
08/20/2023 3:48:08 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: rlmorel
Who hired that person, and what were his qualifications? Because from what I heard, this was a political hire and the person had no qualifications. He was the Chief-of-Staff of the former mayor of Maui County.
His appointment as Emergency Manager was justified by claiming that he took many on-line emergency response training classes.
-PJ
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posted on
08/20/2023 3:51:16 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: MayflowerMadam
They’re very spiritual demonic
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posted on
08/20/2023 4:02:10 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
To: Leaning Right
Right.
How hard would that have been to devise and set up, and to educate the local populace about, prior to a firestorm torching crispy dry West Maui?
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
08/20/2023 4:20:32 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: DallasBiff
Meanwhile the lovely Opry Winford is busily buying up all the scorched Hawaiian land she can. The new purchases will be added to her already sizeable holdings.
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posted on
08/20/2023 4:27:05 PM PDT
by
Wdempsey
(Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
To: DallasBiff
I suspect the former emergency manager will suffer no legal or financial consequences, and after this blows over, will be rewarded with a lucrative sinecure at some woke university.
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posted on
08/20/2023 4:47:23 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
To: Political Junkie Too
Ugh. Never been a believer in online training courses myself.
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posted on
08/20/2023 5:19:40 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: 1FreeAmerican
On the leeward side around Lahaina is mostly a gradual slope. The gulches and steep valleys are on the wet side, like the road to Hana and Iao Valley. Those areas don’t have brush fires. Underground power lines are all over the newer planned Maui golf course communities like Kapalua and Wailea.
To: rlmorel
Yeah, those were always compliance "check the box" required annual training classes that I always complied with.
I never once believed that it qualified me to oversee the potential lives of 2,000 people and the property of an entire habitable island.
-PJ
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posted on
08/20/2023 6:51:31 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: All
Here's Biden's response to the Maui tragedy.
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posted on
08/20/2023 7:05:04 PM PDT
by
Liz
(More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
To: 1FreeAmerican
“When the sirens go off it traditionally means a tsunami and you should seek higher ground - which in this case would have been to run straight into the fire.
My statement is not to make an excuse - just stating a fact.”
We have those same sort of sirens on our military bases. They have the warning tone followed by a voice recording of what the threat is, or if it’s a test.
Even on the county website, it states at least a half dozen reasons for the use of the sirens.
https://www.mauisirens.com/
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posted on
08/20/2023 8:42:49 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
To: All
Governor....“When the warning sirens go off, it traditionally means a tsunami
and you should seek higher ground - which in this case would have been to run straight into the fire.”
Ridiculous......jerk is saying the residents hear the warning,
look out the window, and cant distinguish a fire from a tsunami.
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posted on
08/20/2023 8:51:41 PM PDT
by
Liz
(More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
To: DallasBiff
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Sunday he wished sirens would have alerted residents on Maui to evacuate as a wildfire quickly spread through Lahaina, calling the response by the island's now former emergency chief "utterly unsatisfactory to the world." ...to "the world"?
To: Political Junkie Too
Agreed. It is shameful. All these people dead because of a political appointee who had zero training or experience.
However, experience shows us they will feel no shame or guilt.
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posted on
08/21/2023 5:04:04 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: DallasBiff
The Governor is creating a scape goat. There must be one, there’s no way around it.
Now the lawyers can dredge up deep pockets to sue
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posted on
08/21/2023 5:13:48 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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