Mary Kay Mallonee – CNN Nov 9, 2024
A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after they advised their disaster relief team to avoid homes with signs supporting former President Donald Trump while canvassing in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the agency’s administrator said Saturday.
FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the actions of the employee “reprehensible” and said they have been terminated from their role.
“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors,” Criswell wrote in a post on X before describing the employee’s actions. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.”
“This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct,” she added.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer invited Criswell to testify at a hearing on November 19 to discuss the incident and FEMA’s recent response to natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, he said in a Saturday letter to Criswell.
“In the wake of the recent major disasters that impacted Americans of all political persuasions, it is critical that FEMA adheres to its disaster relief mission,” the Kentucky Republican wrote.
CNN reported Friday that the employee had been removed from their role and that the incident was under investigation. The agency did not identify the employee and said it believed it was “an isolated incident.”
“The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes,” a FEMA spokesperson said Friday.
The Daily Wire first reported on the incident, citing internal correspondence between the employee and workers canvassing homes in Lake Placid, Florida, in which the employee instructed them to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”
The agency is investigating how many houses were passed over by the canvassing team as part of the incident on October 27, the spokesperson told CNN. The agency on Friday deployed a new team to knock on doors in the affected area to contact those who may not have been previously reached.
The spokesperson declined to provide additional information on the incident or detail how agency officials were notified of it, citing the investigation, but said in the statement that FEMA officials are “horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct this situation and have ensured that the matter was addressed at all levels.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said following reports of the incident Friday that he had directed state officials to investigate the matter.
“The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days,” DeSantis, a Republican, wrote on X. “At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.”
FEMA, the spokesperson said in their statement, “helps all survivors regardless of their political preference or affiliation.”
British farmers are threatening port and supermarket disruptions in their ongoing inheritance tax protest. I sympathise with the hand that feeds me but it’s a bit rich for these wealthy people to actually threaten the country after many years of attacking the working man, saying they’re holding the country to ransom for striking for better pay and conditions.
The WEF may have won in Holland in their fight against farmers but they’ve miscalculated the class system in Britain–and farmers may work long and hard in boots and overalls but they are not blue-collar workers. As landowners in Britain many are closer to the ruling classes than to ordinary people.
I always said because it’s always obvious any group will become militant when their interests demand it, but I bet when the farmers’ militancy bites hard and the government feels it they and the media will call these actions supported by the National Farmers Union “leftist”. Rich landowners are not leftist. Didn’t uber-moaner Jeremy Clarkson recently call striking doctors Trotskyists? But isn’t he a Trotskyist now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbyJIs_iwPI
I’m no fan of Chump as I see him as the deeply compromised conman that he is, but the c*nt who issued that order deserves to be horse-whipped in the town square then hanged.
Oh no, the Zionist Trumptards didn’t get any Commie assistance. boo hoo..
the millions of white american idiots rejected a real white leader (Lincoln Rockwell) but enthusiastically support some degenerate Zionist conman/reprobate& believe this charlatan is going to ‘save America’.
The house gets blown over by a hurricane but the sign is still standing in the front yard?
Next time, build the house with whatever you used for the sign….jeeeeesh.
A Florida Senator says he’s aware of evidence that the order to avoid houses with Trump signs came from Washington, DC. He says the investigations will show that FEMA teams all over the state were following the same order.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/rep-greg-steube-fema-scandal-larger-than-thought/
By the way, new Trump signs were put up after the hurricane.
why are the stupid americans in those hurican aereas
building houses light in wood + plastics and not in
stone + cement like here in europa ? do they feel that this
planet is not their home to continue in this stupid manner ?
The thing that neither party or the media will dare speak about: FEMA’s “emergency” powers. They are total tyranny and far outside the Constitution.
I’m sure there are examples there in the U.K. and western europe of similiar agencies with the exact emergency powers. They will complain about this but no one will call for FEMA to be dismantled. Few if any Trump or Harris voter even knows the things FEMA is allowed to do when prompted.