Originally published at: Kristi Noem All But Killed FEMA. Will Her Departure Save It? - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. During the year she spent leading the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, Kristi Noem faced a torrent of criticism. Lawmakers from both parties assailed her for lying about the shooting of protestors in Minneapolis and spending millions of dollars…
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The great Mississippi flood of 1927 was the first natural disaster that elicited a federal relief effort. Before that, it was up to…the states, locals, nobody? The 1927 effort was led by Herbert Hoover, and its success propelled him to the presidency. Calvin Coolidge was president in 1927; is the Trump regime, by seeking to destroy FEMA, now renouncing the woke ideology of Calvin Coolidge?
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I’ve been on both sides of this at FEMA—worked for 15 years at OnStar and spent way way way too much of my time during hurricane season listening to FEMA state calls (we activated our Command Center and worked in our bunker for a good part of the year). Some of those inhibited contracts were for things we did in conjunction with the American Red Cross (we could stand up appropriately trained call centers in about 24 hours—other partners didn’t have the emergency capability to deal with the gruesome shi$ that we did). Craig Fugate was a rockstar during the Obama administration….there ARE still some good people but there’s lots of trauma within the ranks
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If anyone thinks that Markwayne Mullin, with his associates degree in construction technology, has even a scintilla of the brains or education or compassion needed to save FEMA, I have some ocean front property in Nevada that I would like to sell them.
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Kristi Noem All But Killed FEMA. Will Her Departure Save It?
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She shot her dog dead. She killed a goat as well. Why not FEMA?
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Sure hope she didn’t let the door hit her on the way out. Can’t wait to see her fine work in the new job.
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