Official Who Ignored Request for Water During Maui Inferno: 'Water Requires Conversations Around Equity'

RedState ^ | August 17, 2023 | Jennifer Van Laar

[Ebenezer]

During the inferno that devastated part of the island of Maui, wiping entire towns off the map and possibly killing more than a thousand people (once a full assessment can be made), people on Maui begged state officials to allow West Maui stream water to be diverted to fill up reservoirs for firefighting. That request went to M. Kaleo Manuel, Deputy Director of Hawaii's Commission on Water Resource Management, and he delayed approval of that water for five hours - five hours in which the once-contained fire exploded. By the time the approval was received, workers were unable to reach the siphon release so that the water could be diverted. Now we're learning that Manuel, an Obama Foundation Leader for the Asia Pacific Region, is a climate change activist and DEI devotee who's said, "Like, we can share [water], but it requires true conversations about equity."

[Ebenezer]

This is the type of incompetent nutjob the Democrats like to have in power as long he embraces their radical, woke agenda.

[Theoria]

[dpetty121263]

No tears from me as Hawaii embraces Democrats...

[Fledermaus]

Should be charged with manslaughter for every death.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Mauiians got BURNED by their own ideology.

[Organic Panic]

And the people there will still vote for an even more progressive democrat.

[Political Junkie Too]

Finally, somebody who was willing to put the DIE in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.

-PJ

[READINABLUESTATE]

Sacrifice him to the volcano Gods.

[Hot Tabasco]

No tears from me as Hawaii embraces Democrats...

Lots of innocents there who aren't Democrats........You laughing at them too?....Sheesh!

[Brilliant]

The dead are all equal.

[DFG]

M. Kaleo Manuel (Deputy Director of the State of Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management, Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, Hawaiian Studies major)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/so-climate-change-did-cause-the-maui-fire-after-all.php

https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1691856782031815133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1691856782031815133%7Ctwgr%5Ea3d02e5d814b6b6b86cf196d5110c20e5a4111a9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2023%2F08%2Fso-climate-change-did-cause-the-maui-fire-after-all.php

[llevrok]

Deflecting singular responsibility

"We know we can do better. We're all in this together.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I really do not get. How many more billion tons of evidence do people require that shows anytime democrats dominate a city, town, state, everything goes to hell? Yet the people STILL vote overwhelmingly democrat in these areas. Are they masochists? They love pain?

[Quentin Quarantino]

I wager the residents there voted 99% for Crazy Maizie and Slow Joe the Pedo.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Why not. Over 1000 were sacrificed to the water god.

[popdonnelly]

Share this article because it’s an excellent example of Democratic idiocy, and evidence that woke is dangerous to human lives.

[catnipman]

100% guaranteed zero heads will roll, and Democrats will be re-elected across the board at every level of government in Hawaii ...

[milagro]

AMEN!!

[I want the USA back]

OK, so if one privileged minority is going to go thirsty for a day a city must burn down because the city isn’t occupied by that privileged minority.

[jeffersondem]

DIE kills.