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Posted on 04/12/2016 3:42:44 PM PDT by bobsunshine
New York victims of the 2012 storm object to Ted Cruz's vote against relief funds.
MINEOLA, N.Y.—Heidi Cruz, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, was met at a campaign event by victims of Superstorm Sandy who protested his opposition to a 2013 bill doling out billions in aid for storm relief and clean-up.
People from Long Island and southeast Queens, which were devastated by the October 2012 storm, said the Texas senator’s vote against a $51 billion aid package targeted to New York and New Jersey to recover from the damages disqualified him from the presidency. The 2013 aid bill passed anyway.
New York Republicans vote in their primary election on April 19. “Cruz is the one who went against helping us Sandy victims,” said Ieuan Hall, a 49-year-old retiree from Queens who said he is living in a storm-damaged home that still lacks heat. “We need someone in there that’s going to be there to help the people, not hurt the people.”
“He’s not for them helping us,” said Kenneth Campbell, a 53-year-old Queens contractor who is still rebuilt his two-family home, about Mr. Cruz. “It’s going on two years now and I’m not fully back.”
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If you haven't noticed, you're posting on the internet yourself right now, champ.
he’s a jackass!!!
Do you ever write anything intelligent, or is it all name-calling of Cruz?
Everyone in this Country is entitled to an opinion...Cruz is a total jackass...if you don’t like it, to bad, that’s my opinion...
And just how many of those houses are for military? Should we all ignore those as well?
Unfortunately, I think that both Trump and Cruz have ‘burned the bridge’ ,
“How do you own a house and not have homeowners insurance?”
After Katrina, a lot of info came out about the fabled Ninth Ward, the low income neighborhood that was totally flooded and where so many people were helicoptered off rooftops.
Turns out a lot of those mortgages were long ago paid off, or acquired free and clear through inheritance. Since the owners weren’t required by lenders to have insurance, they didn’t. Thus they qualified for “up to” $150,000 in FEMA money.
Others had homeowners’ which did not cover flooding, and no flood insurance, which is additional. They too, qualified for FEMA grants.
Surprisingly, though, it turned out that many owners were actually over-insured with multiple policies. People had, for instance, two $50K policies thru two different companies and collected on both, on a home worth maybe $30K.
They took their proceeds and moved to other cities; yet we are still being shown scenes of the devastated, nearly empty Ninth Ward and told these folks have never to this day recovered, and that Bush caused those poor people’s eternal suffering.
Then there were the countless apartment dwellers who were not only housed in hotels and trailers —for years— on FEMA’s dime, but also many of these folks managed to get grants of “up to” $150,000 toward the PURCHASE of replacement homes, even though, as apartment dwellers prior to Katrina, they didn’t own any structure to begin with, so they hadn’t suffered any structural loss !!
When people lose the USE of an apartment, hello, move into another apartment !!
Ironically, people who had recently obtained mortgages, and were required by lenders to pay for homeowners’ AND flood insurance, were the ones who got next to nothing—because the insurance company was only obligated to pay off the existing mortgage, not buy them another house, too.
So, yeah, I’m with Cruz on this issue, despite certain other reservations.
Trump says the government should provide housing because that’s how his papa made at least part of his fortune—building subsidized housing.
Actually, it was no longer a tropical storm...but rather the remnants of a tropical storm hitting a big cold front - and becoming a roughly 500 mile wide weather event. That’s why it isn’t called a hurricane (rightly).
It’s that damned Trump again! /s
You got that right! I have first hand experience with W-M dealing with the Floyd hurricane disaster in NC back in ‘99. W-M did a hell of a job getting supplies to the victims here. People can bad talk W-M all they want, but when it comes to disasters....they have their act together and act efficiently and expediently.
I never thought it would come to this, but my vote is partially influenced by who is more of a dick.
I think they are both dickish, so it’s a matter of degree.
Can military people buy insurance?
Of course we ignore them. Get real.
The bill PASSED! Anyone whining about Cruz’ NO vote IS a crybaby now.
Yeah, they are on the courts thanks to all the Commies to whom Trump donated, not b/c of Ted. C’mon, you’re smarter than that!
New Yorkers pride themselves in being sophisticated elites, not prone to fall for BS. BUT, they have elected Rotten, Schumer, DiBlasio and Gillebrand, and now many are falling for Trump. I’d sooner trust the judgment of someone who got conned by Jim and Tammy Faye than the average New Yorker.
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