Promoted by Steven D. Is there nothing Bush won’t do to screw over Democrats, no matter how much suffering he causes?
Bush and FEMA under David Paulison are playing political favorites again.
Any state with a Dem governor is going to get shafted when it comes to emergency aid.
Said the Springdale Morning News yesterday:
Alabama is a Republican state. Arkansas is a Democratic state. But this White House wouldn’t dare distinguish among human suffering by whether a state was red or blue. Would it?
One can only wonder if Mike Huckabee might have had more luck with this current regime or whether Mike Beebe would be having better luck if we could fast-forward a couple of years to the Obama or Clinton administration.
At this writing, 11 days after the Dumas tornado, all we know is that Alabama got an affirmative answer in two days while Arkansas has yet to receive any answer at all.
Now, people probably know a bit about how New Orleanians felt like in late August and early September 2005.
Suckers.
Alabama, Florida and Georgia, all hit by tornadoes, seem to be getting assistance and have been declared Federal disaster areas, despite the fact that FEMA had decided to deny Federal assistance to any states hit by tornadoes on Christmas Day, 2006.
All these states have Repub governors.
Arkansas doesn’t. FEMA says the state has a surplus and can take care of its own.
Beebe says that all funds for state emergency aid have been used, and that Federal assistance is warranted.
Meanwhile FEMA is attempting to sell off 60,000 trailers–including 8,000 sitting at the municipal airport in Hope, Arkanasas–when housing is still at a premium in New Orleans.
The stricken in Arkansas are only three hours from having a home brought to them. But FEMA isn’t letting the citizens of Arkansas have them.
Or Katrina evacuees and survivors–who could come home to or stay in New Orleans–if they wanted.
Update [2007-3-8 21:15:9 by blksista]:
See also this Raw Story account with a CNN story embedded.