FEMA Ignores Florida Trump Supporters
Report: FEMA Official Instructed Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Supporters Homes
Elizabeth Weibel
An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed hurricane relief workers to skip over the homes of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a recent report.
Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, reportedly informed hurricane relief workers “verbally and in a group chat,” to “avoid homes advertising Trump,” in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, several “government employees,” told the Daily Wire.
The government employees explained to the outlet that as a result of the guidance, “at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags” in Lake Placid, Florida, had been skipped. As a result, residents did not have an “opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.”
The government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”
The Daily Wire noted that the government employees had been “part of a Department of Homeland Security surge capacity force team,” and had “volunteered” to assist FEMA, which was understaffed in the aftermath of a “second major hurricane.”
One government employee explained to the outlet that they knew FEMA had been “short-staffed,” and the government employees thought they “could go help and make a difference,” adding that they were instructed to “discriminate against people.”
“I know they’re short-staffed, I thought we could go help and make a difference,” the government employee told the outlet. “When we got there we were told to discriminate against people. It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.”
Marn’i Washington was the FEMA supervisor who told workers in a message to avoid homes advertising Trump as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida. She relayed these instructions both verbally and in a group chat, multiple government employees said. By ignoring the homes, residents were unable to apply for federal FEMA disaster relief assistance in the wake of the hurricane.
The backlash from top officials following the revelations has been immediate. FEMA spox said it was “deeply disturbed” and “horrified” by the employee’s actions, and that it has “taken extreme actions to correct this situation.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is calling an investigation from the Sunshine State’s Division of Emergency Management and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said he will open a Congressional investigation.
Ms. Washington has been removed from her duties. FEMA has deployed a new team to knock on doors in the affected area in an effort to make contact with those who were overlooked. I can only imagine the reception they’ll receive from the residents.
Hat tip to AW1 Rod for the link.
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Their receptions will likely be less than cordial.
And rightfully should be.
No surprise to me, I know a few folks who were hit by hurricanes in the past, and they’ll tell you that FEMA folks didn’t seem very eager at all to help anyone who was white.
FEMA workers were housed aboard several ships I worked aboard during disaster/hurricane relief assignments. They were mostly doing drugs and inhaling all the food before trashing the place.
“Eat till you’re tired, sleep till you’re hungry” we’d say.
DEI at it’s best
This would be one of many agencies where heads should roll. The rot starts at the top and its time to cut it way back if not eliminated entirely.
Let the affected people name in a lawsuit the one who sent this directive out. That person will be either forced to name names or bear the brunt of the lawsuit.
Unelected beaurocrats…. spit.
Fuck that. Hack Stone wants to see criminal charges filed against this person who violated the civil rights of tax paying American citizens.
This person should be left broken and destitute, like the hurricane victims they passed over.
MSM to report on it in …. (crickets)
Broken and destitute, like former senior executives of All Points Logistics who went on line to defend the false claims of being a US Navy SEAL? First thing is rip off her mailbox door…
It was Florida, they did not try and take away guns like they did during Katrina. That would not have gone over very well with some of the Sheriffs down there.
In many parts of NW Florida they would have had their asses handed back to them in a dirty used pizza box.
Fire her. Fire whoever knew she did this and DIDN’t fire her. Lifetime ban on federal employment for all involved. Press charges for civil rights violations for EVERY house that was skipped..
Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he??
If you’re going to dream, dream big. It doesn’t cost anymore.
Fire her? No, no, no. If true, She needs to go to prison for civil rights violations.
I said that too. Just make sure she’s not collecting a paycheck while going through court
She will be reassigned to a desk job away from the public at full pay while the investigation is dragged out, and eventually it will end up with a letter of counseling in her file and a 30 remedial ethics PowerPoint class.
Can you say pension? Sure you can.
Taking early retirement to spend more time with her family? How come federal agencies other than the DoD don’t shitcan incompetent and corrupt employees for loss of faith and confidence? And if you do lose your faith and confidence, will the government find you financially liable and deduct it from your pay?
She fired:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-employee-fired-telling-workers-to-ignore-trump-supporters-homes-hurricane-relief/
No doubt that the FEMA TOE flow chart starts at PENN AVE
NPR
ABC
CBS
CNN
MSBS
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Wow.
FEMA has outlived it’s usefulness. It should be gutted and dismantled completely. Time and time again that agency has come up short. Private groups have been much more successful using their own boats, planes, helicopters, and gathering and distributing supplies that people actually need.
With Chicoms building up nuclear weapons, FEMA may need to return to its original Cold War purpose– civil defense. They’ll be shocked.
And Brandon sat at the beach. And the 82nd Airborne sat at Bragg. For a week. Helicopters could have dropped water, food, medicine. Medics could drop in. After Andrew, Bush sent the 82nd to Miami to provided security and food. But everybody knew those were MAGA people in western N.C. and Brandon wanted them isolated, unable to vote. You can bet the response would have been different in the research triangle corner of the state, around Raleigh and Durham.
Whiz Wheel®™ spins:
Marn’i D. Washington (FUBAR) 38 x 7 = 266
I’d love to see: 1) what the FEMA org chart looks like—how many levels between the head and the apparently the team leader from “Crew 33” who leads 13 people (judging by the message shown elsewhere); 2) at which level was this guidance formulated; 3) how many of those levels of “leadership” (sic) passed it along without a second thought; and, 4) how people ABOVE whoever first published that guidance lead such that people below them thought it would be okay to publish blatantly discriminatory guidance.
You can’t leave your politics at the door when people are struggling? You need a brutal beat down.
Yep. The Chief of Staff and every other senior manager at whichever field office should be shitcanned.
My opinion remains the same: Abolish FEMA!!!
Some supporting arguments for my opinion:
Contrast ICE with FEMA. Whereas ICE gets a ton of heat for (dramatic pause) acting within the roles, purpose, and intentions with which it was founded, FEMA gets a ton of justified heat because it is bloated agency mired in bureaucracy that has lost sight of it’s original purpose and intent.
So, yeah, abolish FEMA.
Inherwebz is blowing up over this skrunt. A quick Foo of Giggles has multiple links with her name(s) attached to it. I won’t post the linkys but will drop this one screen shot. She did, in fact, tell people this…
People like this, regardless who they are, deserve to face a wall.
You know that FEMA is a bullshit organization by the simple fact that in every disaster movie that’s been made in the last 30 years, it’s FEMA, and the “Dedicated FEMA Disaster Manager” who is the hero of the movie, and is able to come up with solutions on the spot with a simple cell phone call, or two-way radio, and the help of a spunky scientist who is a 25 year old woman with model looks and who somehow happens to be an expert in whatever disaster the world is in at the moment. Oh, and there’s a precocious teenage girl…and a dog.
“Ms. Washington has been removed from her duties.”
Why wasn’t Marn’i Washington fired and indicted? I fully understand that it nearly takes an act of Congress to fire a federal employee. She should be fired immediately, along with any of her superiors that were aware of this horseshit. The low level employees that willingly went along with this can go too. Civil suits should follow. Fuck ‘em all. Twice.
Ditto. I suspect her political discrimination was not exclusively and solely her idea.
Desantis checks in:
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/11/09/justice-is-coming-ron-desantis-orders-investigation-into-femas-disaster-relief-discrimination-n2403537
Hell yeah!
There is a regulatiuon in Federal Civil Service that states that if a government employee acts contrary to or outside the scope of their duties, they lose the protection of Civil Service. Tht means if this particular affirmative action hire is found to be acting illegally, they can be sued, and they will have no support or legal assistance from the government, among other things.
Sue the bitch’s tits off.
Anyone who took part in that should receive a concertina wire catheter and a broken glass + lemon juice enema