Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

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Originally published at: Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This story first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For months, the complaints have rolled in from parts of the country hit by natural disasters: The Federal Emergency Management Agency was moving far too slowly in sending…

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They’re not even aware of the corruption. Revolting abuse.

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So then entertainment of tourists is more important than helping families search for drowned children. Got it.

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They’re not worried about entertaining tourists. They’re worried about keeping Noem’s donor happy.

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Wild that a Naples-based cardiologist is donating $25k to a SD gubernatorial candidate. Such a perfect indication of the problem with money in politics. Would love to hear the good doctor explain his interest in SD state politics.

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So many things are revolting about this that it’s impossible to list them all. There’s a Marie Antoinette aspect to the utter lack of concern for people in Noem’s universe, from the Salvadoran prison porn to the Texas flood failure. And, why does she dress like a teenager? I hope she had her purse stolen again at the Naples dinner.

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ICE Barbie needs to adjust her clothes dryer settings…

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She looks like she’s been missing some meals. Maybe that’s the problem, she hasn’t been eating enough cake!

Or something like that!

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You don’t read the women’s fashion mags, apparently. One: you still can never be too thin or too rich, and Two: women are supposed to show ankle, no matter how tacky it looks with any footwear other than thong sandals.

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Cosplay Barbie is fundamentally incompetent and corrupt. Who’d a’ thought?

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I’m still shocked whenever their self-regard and contempt for common decency is revealed.

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She’s complying with the fi’s dress code for “girls” in the administration.

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there are still homes etc., in Florida that have been unable to get any help from FEMA.

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