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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:43 AM Jan 2017

What is the orange dufus doing about disaster relief in the South?

Perhaps he or his goons could tweet something that would reassure those real people? I get bits and pieces of news, it looks like one governor in Mississippi had to write a letter to beg, others had to beg in south Georgia, I haven't seen a disaster declaration signed. The tornadoes were on Saturday, dammit. The governor in Georgia was 'confident' Trump would resond. I'm not.

http://time.com/4646054/southern-state-storms-donald-trump/

In Mississippi, where more than 1,000 homes were damaged in the Forrest County area, Gov. Phil Bryant said he wrote a letter to the new president asking for aid, NBC News reports. Georgia's Dougherty County commission chairman Chris Cohilas said he was "begging FEMA for boots on the ground" and "asking President Trump to cut through the red tape and get people on the damned ground here."

http://enewspf.com/2017/01/24/fema-trump-fails-help-tornados-devastate-s-e-incompetence-showing-already/

http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Albany-to-receive-FEMA-assistance-for-Jan-2-storm-411682545.html

http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/2017/01/24/president-trump-talks-with-gov-deal-on-recent-s-ga-tornadoes/

http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/315761-is-the-trump-administration-ready-for-the-worst

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/tornado-ravaged-mississippi-still-waiting-on-disaster-relief-after-trump-promises-to-expedite-the-process/

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What is the orange dufus doing about disaster relief in the South? (Original Post) deminks Jan 2017 OP
Keep begging. lsewpershad Jan 2017 #1
Who did Mississippi go for in the general election again? still_one Jan 2017 #2
Well, he got what he wanted from them Bettie Jan 2017 #3
The tragedy of the situation is they continue to vote against themselves still_one Jan 2017 #5
I feel sympathy for them in terms of the storm losses Bettie Jan 2017 #6
the media has pretty much ignored this story. spanone Jan 2017 #4

Bettie

(16,089 posts)
6. I feel sympathy for them in terms of the storm losses
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 02:44 PM
Jan 2017

and damage.

No sympathy for the lack of federal response that they chose. They made a choice. This is the result of that choice.

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