FEMA: If mayors don't fill out paperwork, NO HELP.

[tjdee]

Vanessa Williams, from the National Conference of Black Mayors, is on CNN right now with Carol Costello telling her that's what an assistant director of FEMA told them. I will try to find the transcript, the assistant director told them to find someone closer because there was paperwork they needed to fill out.

Costello said "paperwork"? Williams replied "paperwork".

So Williams and co. talked to (DEMS) Bill Clinton, Marty O'Malley, etc. who are being helpful.

I'm pretty sure Mr. Brown is going to get fired.

[ima_sinnic]

1. can you imagine the reaction after OKC if people had made

"paperwork" a condition of receiving assistance from FEMA?
omigod--Bill Clinton would not have lived to enjoy those blowjobs.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. How the fuck are you supposed to submit paperwork

in the middle of a disaster.

Didn't anyone in the Dept of Homeland Security even bother to read their own National Response Plan?

The Plan ensures the seamless integration of the federal government when an incident exceeds local or state capabilities.


What if this was a nuke attack and the Governor and/or the Mayor got killed in the attack. Then what would happen? HS would just sit around waiting because no one called them? Give me a break.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Blanco did put out a formal paper written plea.

What did Jeb Bush do? Make a phone call? Maybe we should investigate how Jeb got help.

[jmm]

4. and if the paper gets wet along with 80% of the city

people are suppose to just die :grr:?

[Solly Mack]

5. huh? what kind of half-assed excuse is that for incompetence?

it's not us...it's your lack of paperwork. right...sure it is

unreal

[NYC]

6. Chertoff should also be fired. FEMA is under Homeland Security.

Imagine if you had to fill out paperwork when an ambulance came to pick you up off the street.

Edit: Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard called it bureaucratic murder.

[Karmakaze]

7. Its more like...

having to fill out paperwork before 911 will accept your call, more paperwork before the ambulance is dispatched, yet more paperwork at the hospital emergency room and yet more paperwork on the way to the operating theatre.

Then when the doctor fails to show up for the operation, being told that YOU should have done a better job of filling out all the required paperwork.

[NYC]

14. That's a good description.

[bribri16]

10. No, Bush should be fired and Rove jailed. They changed FEMA

to what it is now, a disaster in own right.

[NYC]

13. Bush appointed Chertoff. Bush, Chertoff, and Brown.

Negligent homicide.

[tsuki]

8. BS. Total BS.

[tjdee]

9. Here is the link to the transcript--"We were getting no response whatsoeve

r." :grr:

"COSTELLO: What does FEMA say about this?

WILLIAMS: Well, unfortunately, when I had a conversation with the group, one of the assistant directors of FEMA, I was told that instead of our mayors calling us, maybe they should be reaching out to individuals that were closer to them so they could fill out the proper paperwork to get assistance.

COSTELLO: Paperwork?

WILLIAMS: Paperwork.

COSTELLO: Well I don't know, if you think about it, that would be virtually impossible for those mayors to travel, in the first place, and where would they get the paperwork from?

WILLIAMS: Well we've asked that we be able to expedite that process for them. And I actually was able to participate on a call with President Clinton in which he's been able to assist us with getting attention to this matter. But with that being said, we were told, because we are not an authorized signature or a town or city employee, we would not be able to actually assist the mayors on that level.

COSTELLO: So what is your organization doing to help?

WILLIAMS: Well, what we had done is day one we were just being inundated with calls from our mayors telling us the needs that they had in their communities. After, we personally, as well as mayors, our president, Mayor Roosevelt Dorn, made several calls to heads of state in Washington, D.C., and we were getting no response whatsoever.

We understood then that we needed to take matters into our own hands. So we actually formed the National Conference of Black Mayors Disaster Relief Fund in which we now have mayors on the ground that are members of our organization that have taken truckloads of supplies to these communities, that are helping mayors evacuate these communities and just have been just a blessing and a resource.

We've had mayors, such as John Street, Mayor O'Malley out of Baltimore, Maryland, just that has been a blessing to our membership. Mayor O'Malley, if I may just mention to you, has a caravan of 200 people getting to these cities because he's heard our voice and is trying to help us by bringing fireman and so forth to bring assistance."

More...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/05/lad.01.html

[expatriate]

11. This situation

gets more and more like Kafka's "The Trial" by the minute.

[MadeinOhio]

12. They should all be fired. What creeps...

This is why the city hates them so bad and became chaos.:grr:

[KamaAina]

15. FEMA assclowns: If mayors do fill out paperwork, NO HELP EITHER.

Who cares what you mayors of cities with black people who vote Dem think? :sarcasm: