Colorado GOP vote for disaster assistance for their state despite fighting to deny aid after Sandy

[angka]

Source: New York Daily News

Four Colorado Republicans — Reps. Cory Gardner, Mike Coffman, Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton — opposed the Sandy aid for the Northeast but crowed after they secured federal disaster funding for their constituents.

New York lawmakers who had to wage a bitter fight for the Sandy money found the flip-flop by their Colorado counterparts too tough to take.

“Natural disasters don’t discriminate, but apparently Republican members from Colorado do,” the normally affable Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Queens) told the Daily News.

“When Hurricane Sandy struck New York, Reps. Gardner, Coffman, Lamborn and Tipton opposed providing federal assistance to help us rebuild. But their opposition to federal emergency aid dissolved when their state was struck by historic floods.”

He added, “It’s the height of hypocrisy for them to have so quickly and conveniently changed their position. I only wish the best for the people of Colorado as they repair their lives after such devastation, but I hope New Yorkers make clear these members are persona non grata in our town.”



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/colorado-republicans-vote-disaster-assistance-denial-article-1.1473395

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Colorado Republicans Hammered By New Yorkers Over Flood Aid
An Open Letter To The Rest of America, Especially New Jersey

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Good on Joseph Crowley

I'm in NJ - and I'll tell you . . . regardless of what those asshats did to us - we can't punish innocent people who need help.

[Doctor_J]

6. they're not innocent

we have representative government, and those people voted these scum bags into office. Maybe next time they should think about what that means.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. My Congressman

Is Leonard Lance - NJ 7th Republican. I didn't vote for him. I certainly didn't vote for Chris Christie either. I'd hate to see Sandy reconstruction stop because of Good Guv'nah Doughboy and that pansy Lance.

[meadowlark5]

2. Of course

As long as it's not in a republican's backyard, they could give two shits.

Wasn't it the same after that huge tornado in Oklahoma in the summer? I would imagine those reps voted against Sandy relief but felt more than entitled to aid when the tornado tore up their towns.

[question everything]

3. They dislike government programs until they like them

This is why I think that there should be a complete shutdown. Cruz has many constituents who don't like government but think that their disability checks and food stamps are their birthright. They will be the first to scream bloody murder. Perhaps even will congregate around the offices of their members of congress with guns.

Right now it is easy for them to say - oh, it does not hurt anyone for the government to be closed for a few days.

The ones who are affected, well Republicans think they probably "deserve" it.

[Berlum]

4. Typical Republicon hypocrisy

Wow - the Repubbies are SHAMELESS MONEY GRUBBING hypocrites.

[Doctor_J]

5. Two words for them

and the first one rhymes with truck. These shit stains need to learn that actions have consequences. Then they can run for re-election next year with that around their spotty pink necks.

[MuseRider]

8. Of course, mine would be the same.

You have to stop thinking that the teabagging teabillies that have been elected by some of our states think. Do you think they could ever have voted about Sandy the way they did if they had been able to think about what might have happened to them and that the Reps and the people they voted against might not vote to help them? I mean really. I live in Kansas and I think all of them from this state voted to not help Sandy victims. KANSAS, tornado alley. I don't think they are smart enough to think through these things. Does not mean you forgive them but you have to feel some amount of sorry for the poor dears. Sadly many of them will return because there are a lot of the poor dears in this country and many many many of them live in your lovely blue states.

No excuses for those who voted for them. I certainly did not but if I needed help I would hope that there were still people with enough humanity left to help those in need. I am rapidly losing all faith in what I see around me and occasionally here when pay back is the only way people think.

What was all that about enlightenment and bettering ourselves that we used to do? Jesus people. I sure don't carry a card that says who I voted for and I could care less who my neighbor voted for if they need help. I don't get it. I thought liberals were the people who could see passed all of that. No? I guess not anymore.

[The Wizard]

9. Anti American

enemies of humanity. End Civil War reconstruction and let the slave states stew in their own juices.

[locks]

10. Thank you for a good post. We in Colorado

are embarrassed by the Republican congressmen all who got their seats through gerrymanding and tea party false campaigning. Some of the counties which had the most disastrous flooding are ones that want to secede from Colorado, recalled two good state legislators for voting for reasonable gun control, want to "keep the government out of their lives" While their reps are telling their constituents how hard they are working to get FEMA and emergency money for homes, roads and bridges.

Colorado has a huge number of federal workers and contracts, military bases, science and research Depts and labs. Today Scott Tipton had the gall to go before the House and say the Republicans had nothing to do with the shutdown; they are the ones who are trying to fund the military, NIH, CDC, Headstart, but the Dems don't care about them.

[angka]

11. It gets even worse

According to the Star Ledger, the money Colorado Republicans celebrated bringing home came from the Sandy relief bill they VOTED AGAINST.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/10/colorado_getting_a_piece_of_sandy_aid.html

Two New Jersey congressmen are calling a group of Colorado Republicans hypocrites for voting against the $50 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package earlier this year then requesting a chunk of the money to help their own state recover from last month’s deadly floods.

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-9th Dist.) said that to get the Sandy aid package approved in January — after more than two months of delays — lawmakers from the states affected by the hurricane had to agree to a provision that would allow some of the money to go to other states hit by disasters…

“Now, some of these very congressmen are shamelessly proving just how hypocritical they are by using the same Sandy funding they voted against to help their constituents,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd-Dist.) was equally critical, labeling Colorado lawmakers the “Hypocrisy Caucus.”

“And, in you can’t-make-this-up irony, this legislation to help Colorado wouldn’t be possible without the Sandy aid bill. It was just approved by voice vote in the House because Northeast lawmakers did not stand in opposition, said Jason Galanes, a spokesman for LoBiondo. “We understand the true nature of disasters and the critical need for emergency assistance.”

[texanwitch]

12. What help.

If this mess keeps going there will be no money to fix anything.

People who hate big government sure like when they need it.