Rick Scott apparently voted no on hurricane relief
Should be a blue slip process like with judges. Home state Senator doesn’t want free money? That works for me.
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DeSantis voted no on giving money to NJ for hurricane Sandy.
He’s not interested unless it’s a government program he can defraud personally.
Yeah, like nothing should be built on barrier islands that is insured by taxpayers. They should be beaches and parkland, and if businesses want to build boardwalks or whatever, cool - insure them on your own. Like we’d be so much better off building shoddy shacks for boardwalk businesses that get knocked down in a Cat 1 but are cheap to replace - or super expensive hotels/resorts that are built to survive a Cat 5.
Barrier islands should be, crazy idea here, barriers that protect the mainland somewhat from storm surge. And perhaps we should build even more of them, has that been researched one way or another? It seems like dredging up sand to build a series of barrier islands might help protect the mainland from storm surge at a somewhat reasonable cost, and we can build to code to protect against winds.
You’ve just described Jones Beach on Long Island, which, incidentally, is also unlike almost any other beach in the country precisely because they allow so little actual building there, and is a wonderful public park. Obviously we won’t do this, but that’s what we should have everywhere.
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Just saw a little blurb that said 10,000 people are unaccounted for. Obviously that number will go down, but it’s going to be bad.
It might be bad, but I was listening to the news when the full context of that number came up. Apparently before the hurricane 20,000 people signed up for some kind of thing with the state where they indicated they were sheltering in place or something. After the hurricane the state sends something out automatically to them. As of this morning, only 10k had checked in, but there’s widespread power, internet and cell service outages so…. I wouldn’t put much stock in that “10k missing” number.
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Great article from around Irma:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/08/hurricane-irma-florida-215586/
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The home insurance industry is interesting. Collect premiums from rubes. Pay CEO benefits and bonuses. Storm hits. Actually, we are bankrupt.
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And Indiana
Rubio no-show on vote. You would think he’d be there to support getting Florida up and running so DeSantis can go back to being a giant dick to refugees ASAP.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1576265121692794882?t=lzOkCNRGRrpuPf9xpeN6rA&s=19
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Lol, Wut?
Biden should veto it saying that a majority of Florida reps (both Senate and House) have indicated that they don’t want the relief, so he’s not going to force them to accept money they don’t want.
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This is a legitimately great idea
i’m not advocating we do what the poster said… but trying to say “dems delivered for floridians” will never get through to the republicans anyway. all 16 of those republican house members, plus scott and rubio already have teams making the “we brought money back to real floridians after the hurricane” messages… and they will pair them with stock photos of them handing out supplies, and fox news will eat that shit up.
and they will probably do an even more convincing job of it than the dems, and independents who aren’t hooked in will think their random red congresscritter helped them out…
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The best approach would be to delay it for a day or two
“The representatives for florida have voted against this bill. This clearly means there is a problem here. So we will seek to work with the honourable representatives to understand”
Sound like the good guy. But keep it in the news for a while"
How much will this hurt them in the next election?
