Steve King contrasts New Orleans to Iowa on disaster response: 'Iowans take care of each other"

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Republican Rep. Steve King contrasted Iowans as being willing to help one another compared to to victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

“Here’s what FEMA tells me: we go to a place like New Orleans and everybody’s looking around saying ‘who’s gonna help me?” King said at a town hall event in a video posted to his Facebook page.

He said that FEMA told him that an Iowan, however, would say “wait a minute let me get my boots it’s Joe that needs help. Let’s go down to his place and help him.”

They’re just always gratified when they come and see how Iowans take care of each other,” he added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/435248-steve-king-contrasts-new-orleans-to-iowa-on-disaster-response-iowans-take-care

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I have this feeling Steve King thinks there's a difference between people in Iowa and people in New Orleans, but I can't put my finger on what it might be.....

[Ahpook]

1. They stay just on the cusp

Of saying what they really want to.

Chickenshit motherfucker, just say it!

[Roy Rolling]

2. Again?

Check the archives. I think he said it in 2006, too. He's a one-trick pony.

[Aussie105]

3. Every chance they get . . .

Straight out, he is saying New Orleans people are poor, helpless (and black) while Iowans are wealthy, resourceful (and white)?

Every chance they get, they take. Racist white trash! Needing a massive kick in the head for even thinking up that comparison, Stevey boy!

[delisen]

13. Where would Iowa be without us paying Ag subsidies

I am so tired of economies but on welfare acting like the rest of us are not subsidizing them

[IronLionZion]

4. David Duke is from Louisiana and would help him

use bleach to get his laundry to be extra white and pure, starting with his klan robes

Maybe some Democrats can help Iowa get a new congressperson and let this racist go spend more time at the cross burnings or whatever he does for fun.

[keithbvadu2]

5. What person in FEMA said it?

What person in FEMA said it?

[Aussie105]

6. oh, come on!

That's a cue for some Trumpisms, like 'Everybody knows', 'I heard that', 'It was on Fox', etc.

Would be nice is someone in FEMA spoke out and called BS on it though.

[keithbvadu2]

7. A wee bit of sarcasm in my comment.

[Aussie105]

14. I know

"Here’s what FEMA tells me"

Now FEMA is an organization, it has no mouth. A human being needs to speak on FEMA's behalf.

So that statement should really be . . . 'A FEMA spokesperson tells me'.

Now, this spokesperson has a name. So fess up, Steve, who was it?

[oldsoftie]

22. Trumps favorite: "Many people are saying"

[efhmc]

8. What a waste of a human DNA he is.

I was at the Astrodome when they finally brought people there from NO. Sorry, I wanted to but can't even write about the experience. That evil little piece of scum has no idea of the agony of human suffering those people went through or of anything he is talking about.

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. His constituents thought Katrina was divine judgment on New Orleans

Right up until the damage along the Mississippi River interfered with shipping their crops out. That was when it stopped being hilarious and somehow became a tragedy. That was their last straw for me.

[shadowmayor]

10. And don't forget

In Iowa, the cops don't shoot at people stranded on bridges or walking through their devastated neighborhoods. As lil' bush said, "our first priority is to establish law and order" because, you know how those people in New Orleans are.

[Dan]

11. This man truly is a piece of Sh--.

[Girard442]

12. OK. Cancel all disaster aid to Iowa.

They clearly don’t need it...or want it. Right?

[delisen]

15. Iowa has been a welfare state since the New Deal

brought in pay-to-not-plant and other welfare goodies.

Steve King represents a welfare state-ever since 1933.

The modern farm bills are massive give aways

[delisen]

16. The Farm bill is a conversation need to have

I have found that many people who claim to be conservative are not.

[Roy Rolling]

18. Also

Many giant corporations who claim to be mom-and-pop farms are not.

A subsidy meant to keep small farmers from bankruptcy has morphed into a giant cash cow for agribusiness.

[TygrBright]

17. Fuck yourself with a rusty Brillo pad, Steeny. n/t

[Beacool]

19. Racist pig!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. A little Iowa disaster doesnt compare to H Katrina. King is a disaster & Iowans aren't helping. . nt

[KayF]

21. he's saying Iowans are supreme n/t