White House used Florida hurricane to boost election prospects

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Big News Network.com Wednesday 23rd March, 2005 (UPI)

E-mails released by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office show the presidential election campaign was a factor in hurricane relief efforts last year.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday a consultant suggested Bush's re-election staff be brought into Florida to minimize any negative hurricane effects.

Two weeks later, a Florida official said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was handing out assistance money to everyone who needed it without asking for much information of any kind.

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Ok this is sickening!!!

now can this make it to the top of the corporatist news?

and making Americans sick!!!

Seeing as how he's basically a heartless prick unless there's SOMETHING in it for him.

(Dems) going to jail because they supposedly paid for votes?

How is this different?

Using government money ilegally!!!

He's going to JAIL, as he should be when you break the law.

But when your the president's Brother, and the former president's son.. we know what happens don't we.

They'll do anything, say anything, break the law, refuse to count votes, steal, cheat, kill - they'll stop at nothing. AND THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED.

That was the lowest hanging fruit in the world! an opportunity to legally hand out money weeks before an election is a politicians dream come true!

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The records are contained in hundreds of pages of Gov. Jeb Bush's storm-related e-mails initially requested by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct. 13.

The governor's office finally released the documents Friday, after threat of a lawsuit by the newspaper.

Democrats in Washington said the records confirm suspicions that the federal government used the hurricanes to funnel money to Florida, a key battleground state in the presidential election. "They weren't really asking for information, yet they were just doling out this money like it was Christmas," said Lale Mamaux, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-fema23mar23,0,4681016.story?coll=sfla-news-front

Good work on their part! :toast:

Look at the date they requested the emails! (props to lovuian for pointing this out to my tired eyes!)

that gives me chills!!!

They are such slimebuckets. I remember seeing pictures of the Widiot down in Florida, personally handing out bottles of water after the hurricane. It was so transparent.

i don't think it's much of a surprise.

I imagine there will be a lot more heavily-funded, "God"-created Natural Disasters in Florida the coming years. I remember watching on TV last Fall, as the News said Shrub was signing over Millions in FEMA funds to Jeb (HIS BROTHER!!!) in Florida. That happened FOUR times! Every time I heard the MILLIONS word, and Shrub-to-Jeb passing of money, I went uh-huh... I'm not surprised to hear now that a lot of that money essentially disappeared...not doubt to help "fund" the dubious Election.

My friend from Middle schools job was "totally saved" personally by *.

I couldn't even bring * up to him. He was a god in my buddy's eyes.

(granted if he lost his job, he was going to move back to PA, or NJ)

my backyard is still a disaster, my garage and fence were badly damaged, and I can't afford to repair them-plus, my insurance company dropped me (but compared to others, I got off easy).

I had to fight for some assistance. I guess they looked at our voter's registration and said "She would never vote for us. We'll let her wait." I had to send 5 different letters and then we got the "denial" overturned. And yes, now our insurance has dropped us as well.

eventually. What are you doing about insurance now? I've been so overwhelmed with other concerns that I haven't tackled that one yet (getting insurance for my 1925 home was tough enough to begin with)!

The house we were renting in Palm Bay was destroyed by hurricanes Francis and then Jeanne. I let my girlfriend make the FEMA claim to get some relocation assistance, since she still has an R on her voter registration (she hasn't changed it since Reagan's 2nd term, but doesn't vote R anymore...didn't vote Ronnie on term 2). I figured the same thing, that claims would go smoother for the republicans. They gave us around $450 without many questions at all.

The disgusting thing is the amount of money that went to Miami-Dade county, despite the fact that NO hurricanes came anywhere near that county. That was where the vote-pandering money was handed out to people. I read an article where some people reported no home damage, but somehow the hurricanes damaged their wide-screen TV (which, of course they never had). And people were smashing the windows of their cars, and pouring water onto their couches, etc.

money. FEMA went door to door here telling people to apply for money.

And to the Greatest Page as well. Yea, even unto the end of the Spin Cycle.

election? and that it took so long to be released to the paper?

forgot - "AP Uncovers Ridge Meetings with Pollsters During Presidential Campaign
Published: February 17, 2005 11:25 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Ridge's get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush's re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by the AP under the Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000807456

Well, at least they didn't politicize the "War on Terror". oops -

"Cheney: Kerry win risks terror attack
Edwards says Cheney 'crossed the line' with comment

Wednesday, September 8, 2004 Posted: 0109 GMT (0909 HKT)

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) -- A November win by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would put the United States at risk of another "devastating" terrorist attack, Vice President Dick Cheney told supporters Tuesday."

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/cheney.terror/

Well, at least they didn't lie about what Bush will do if he gets re-elected, oops -

"Kerry Warns of Social Security Changes
No Privatization Planned, Bush Campaign Says

By Jim VandeHei and Chris L. Jenkins
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, October 18, 2004; Page A05

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct, 17 -- John F. Kerry accused President Bush of having a secret, second-term plan to privatize Social Security starting in January, telling a church audience Sunday that the idea is "a disaster for America's middle class." '

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40474-2004Oct17.html

You know you can't believe anything they have to say. I can't understand why they can't be straight shooters like Cheney, Delay, etal...

Oops -

Report says bin Laden eluded U.S. forces in Tora Bora

WASHINGTON (AP) — A commander for Osama bin Laden during Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union who helped the al-Qaeda leader escape American forces at Tora Bora is being held by U.S. authorities, a government document says.

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President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney asserted during the presidential election that commanders did not know whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora when U.S. and allied Afghan forces attacked there in December 2001. They dismissed assertions by Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, that the military had missed a chance to capture or kill bin Laden while al-Qaeda made a last stand in the mountainous area along the Pakistan border.

The document, provided to The Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information request, says the detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "assisted in the escape of Osama bin Laden from Tora Bora." While not identified by name or nationality, he is described as being "associated with" al-Qaeda and having called for a holy war against the United States.

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The document is what the Pentagon calls a "summary of evidence" and was presented against one of 558 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay on Dec. 14 for a hearing to determine whether the prisoner was correctly held as an "enemy combatant." The assertion about his efforts and bin Laden's escape is made as a statement of fact; it does not indicate how the information was obtained.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-03-22-bin-laden-report_x.htm?csp=34

from disaster victims to help them steal some more!!!

Bush followers are on the lowest rung of the food chain next to snakes!!!

It's even more sickening because the hurricanes may have been caused by the climate change the Bushes are allowing to advance unchecked

even though it sure felt like it at the time...



September 19th, 2004
That's What I'm Talking About

>snip< Note the gruff looking fellow and his shattered home. Note George W. with his arm slung around him like they were old college roommates. And most importantly, note the somewhat faded American flag.

Ask yourself, why the fuck is there an American flag in this photo of an apparent moment of spontaneous compassion?

Why? 'Cause Karl Rove made damn sure that someone is around to set-dress every photograph that comes out of Florida over the next few days. 'Cause the only thing better than a beatific-looking Bush mourning with his fellow man, is a beatific-looking Bush doing so with an American flag.

If you Americans vote for this fellah because of kind of proganda, you are falling for the same kind of game the original Propaganda Minister ran back in the 30's and 40's for his beloved Fuhrer. Remember; Bush invaded a sovereign nation for a reason that was overwhelmingly false, started a war that has cost over a thousand American lives, killed over 10 000 Iraqi civilians and turned a majority of world opinion against the United States. But half of the American population is still thinking of voting for him.
http://www.nunt.com/dailymingus/04_sep13.shtml

and get those brown people to like us and "appreciate" how good we really are

though it's nice that there are e-mails that prove the bushie brothers are scumbags.

Here he was tossing money around and posing for photo ops like mad right before the election, in a state that was undoubtedly going to be a close call. Meanwhile, in southern MD, people are still hurting from when Isobel struck in 1993. Of course, MD was a rethuglican lost cause.

these days.

:kick:

Let us not forget that aspect!