to which the answer is "exactly how did Jeb's brother influence Floridians helping Floridians?"
Didn't have to ACTUALLY help, perception, always perception. And, of course, with the Rats perception is reality especially since among them, it actually is.
Well, see, when the evil Karl Rove steered the hurricane toward the black population centers in Dade and Broward county in an effort to get Haliburton and daddy's Texas cronies the reconstruction job, Jeb and his brother rigged everything to keep the little guy oppressed.
Or something. ;-)