Posted on 01/29/2018 11:50:33 AM PST by COUNTrecount
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will try to bait President Trump on Tuesday by bringing one of the commander-in-chief’s loudest critics to his State of the Union address — San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.
“It is an honor to announce that Mayor @CarmenYulinCruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico will join me at the #SOTU. Throughout the crisis in Puerto Rico, Mayor Cruz has shown extraordinary leadership and fearless advocacy for her city,” Gillibrand tweeted Monday.
“I hope Mayor Cruz’s presence at #SOTU will remind the president and my colleagues in Congress of our urgent responsibility to help Puerto Rico fully recover and rebuild.
“Our fellow citizens must not be forgotten or left behind.”
Cruz was harshly critical of the federal government’s response — and of Trump personally — after Hurricane Maria devastated the impoverished island in September.
And she’s kept up the criticism since, as roughly a half-million American citizens on the US territory remain without power more than four months later.
“The federal government didn’t do things right from the beginning. President Trump insulted the Puerto Rican people over and over and over. You know that Carly Simon song, ‘You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you?’ He probably thought that Maria was about him,” she told Time this month.
“But it wasn’t about him, it wasn’t about politics; it was about saving lives. FEMA was asking Puerto Ricans to go online and register for support. For heaven’s sake, we have no electricity.”
Trump responded by attacking her on Twitter at the height of the disaster in comments critics called offensive to the storm’s victims.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help,” he wrote.
“They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”
Yeah, the Trump hating b*tch. She screams Trump is the worst but when Trump came to PR and she was face to face, she couldn’t do jack sh*t. Spineless coward..only attacks when Trump is far away.
Maybe she can explain why she took money from the unions to keep quiet...
Why should these twits get to bring “guests”? Why don’t American citizens get the extra seats?
She’s still Ray Nagin in a skirt.
Trump should perhaps recognize and welcome her during his speech, and express appreciation for her “acknowledgement” of the billion$ of aid that poured into PR despite the infrastructure problems and the fact the truckers were on strike at the time. She’ll have no choice but to sit quietly and listen.
Geez, why doesn’t PR just call Cuba and ask how they do it? It’s not like PR just woke up one day and found it was in the Caribbean. Hurricanes happen there.
Not just a political slut whore, she’s also a political pimp.
Armed Federal Agents Enter Warehouse in Puerto Rico to Seize Hoarded Electric Equipment
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/puerto-rico-electricity-prepa-hurricane-maria/
Update: Jan. 10, 2018, 7 p.m.
Sen. Eduardo Bhatia, minority leader of the Senate of Puerto Rico, provided a statement to The Intercept on the hoarded electrical equipment:
The news that has come out today about the discovery made by armed federal agents of thousands of electrical spare parts hidden in an PREPA warehouse borders on a criminal act by its managers. It is time for people to stand up and demand answers. Hundreds of thousands of families have been in the dark for more than 125 days, people keep dying, and businesses continue to close due to the lack of energy while the necessary spare parts were in the possession of PREPA. Lying about not having the parts to cover the inefficiency of PREPA is outrageous and those responsible must be taken before state and federal authorities to be criminally processed immediately.
PR was a broke and corrupt pit before the storm.
Nothing changed after the storm and local officials sat on their hands waiting for others to do their job for them, hoping for federal funds they could redirect to their personal benefit.
Liberal Democrats are so effing boring.
These low down Zeros are finally reallllly ticking me off. We could not say one blasted thing about the last boy in that Office for fear of getting locked up or something.
Just wait until SF gets hit with it’s next earthquake.
She who was the Ray Nagin of what happened there last fall, eh?
Gillibrand has all the intelligence of a bathroom rug. In fact, a bathroom rug is more useful. She grabs on to a non-existent “problem” or “issue” which only exists in what passes for a mind on this Demo-robot and then shrieks loudly about it. She has done NOTHING of any note while holding the office of senator.
She is an American citizen. Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Shouldn’t she be in Puerto Rico doing her job? Or has she got that mess all fixed up now?
Sorry, a citizen of our 50 states.
Who is paying her transportation and lodging?
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