Keep dreamin’, gov.
But you couldn’t be bothered to have the mayors back when she was trying to get more help for the people there. I guess all that kissing trump ass didn’t work out so well for you.
The waters quickly rose way over this guy’s head. Toadying up to Trump did nothing but obscure the need.
The governor of Puerto Rico on Thursday said that residents of the island “need equal treatment” as those of Texas and Florida when it comes to the federal government’s disaster response.
It must be interesting when two deluded men meet to talk.residents of the island “need equal treatment”
Residents of the island need statehood. Browns who vote and vote Democratic (Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic caucuses in 2016 and also won the territory in 2008, defeating Barack Obama 68 to 32 percent) would grab moron’s or any other indifferent R’s attention.
Maybe, but the island isn’t going to get enough electoral votes to change the outcome against States like Ohio and Texas. They’ll probably be lucky to get more than 10 electoral votes - e.g., Iowa has six.
Rossello needs to toughen up. The only way to get anything out of Trump is to get in their faces, shame them and rain down negative PR on them, especially if you’re POC.
So, do nothing? Offer no pushback, and just rhetoric but “equal treatment” but to a callous and uncaring administration? Wait til the islanders relocate to the mainland and fill a lot of Eastern seaboard states and more with potential D voters. That should perk up the dullards in D.C.
I wish you weren’t right, but suspect you are…sadly.
I guess he hasn’t heard. The Puerto Rico crisis is over. Trump went and threw some paper towel rolls at it and it went away. Amazing!
We need all of the resources so that we can get out of the emergency
Over a month since the hurricane hit and the guy on the ground is still referring to it as being IN an emergency. Not a recovery, not a past emergency, but currently in an emergency situation. This is entirely on Trump, I wonder if he’s asked about the death toll lately, not that he would care.
And that, my friend, is where they will do the more damage. Let’s turn FL more blue - that has some impact.
This administration cares for nothing other than its own self-aggrandizement. It isn’t until they recognize there is a consequence for them PERSONALLY that they will get a clue.
Right now, PR means nothing to them. And even the media are ignoring USVI which is in even worse shape than PR. I think 45 did a pass through, which got no news coverage.
Trump will need to ass Puerto Rico to the travel ban order.
Likely six electoral votes, based on the population and the formula for devising House seats.
Trump will need to add Puerto Rico to the travel ban order.
I don’t know enough about this guy to know where he’s coming from.
But I can imagine he may feel that he’s in a tough spot. Even if he’s disgusted by some of Trump’s comments, such as “they want everything to be done for them,” he may feel that he needs to tread carefully and not criticize President ManBaby directly because of the likelihood (near-certainty?) that the Toddler-In-Chief and his allies in Congress would respond by (further) slow-walking aid to the island.
If he’s a Trump supporter trying to take pressure off the administration’s logistical failures and the President’s repulsive attitude, that’s unforgiveable. But if he’s just a guy in a horrible situation, with his people in desperate straits, and aid dependent on a narcissistic, xenophobic, bigoted President and a heartless GOP Congress, it’s not hard to imagine how he might be trying to walk a very narrow line in order to avoid further politicization of the aid and reconstruction efforts.
Perhaps someone more familiar with this guy’s politics can weigh in and help me understand which of these scenarios might be closer to the truth…
Last weekend the online edition of El Nuevo Dia had a long interview with the Mayor of Toa Baja, who lost people to drowning on the day of the storm when someone in his administration decided to open the Rio Plata reservoir to keep the dam from breaking. He describes very thoughtfully how in the initial days after the storm he had to prioritize public health tasks including proper disposal of the numerous dead farm animals that could become sources of human health problems. He goes on to state gratitude to FEMA, but to echo many of San Juan Mayor Cruz’s criticisms, pertaining to the concentration of everyone (including rural mayors) at the Convention Center, to insisting on compliance with FEMA requirement that all applications for FEMA assistance be made on line…when most of the island did not have phone or internet yet. The Governor’s party and its allied journalists assisted in a concerted attack on Mayor Cruz, but in the local press, many of the other Mayors are beginning to speak out and echo what she said earlier.
The New Mexico national guard is in St. Thomas doing relief work. I don’t’ know where the decision to send them originated but I know they’re there.
Otherwise I have not heard one thing about the US Virgin Islands and hurricane relief.
Florida is in fact one of the states islanders will be moving to, but Eastern states, NY and NJ in particular have had islanders living there for decades, and family connections. Wherever the Democratic vote can be enhanced is okay with me.