As reported today by CNN, Mayor Dawn Zimmer told CNN and others the following (bolding mine):
After Sandy, Hoboken was 80% underwater. Zimmer told CNN last week that Hoboken received only about $300,000 of the roughly $100 million in state funds the city requested for flood prevention.
Reed, Christie's spokesman, told CNN that Zimmer asked for $100 million from a roughly $300 million pot of money for which there was $14 billion worth of requests.
Enter the ever-accurate Faux Noise.
Buried in a denial piece entitled NJ lieutenant governor denies claims of withholding Sandy aid funds we find this tidbit (bolding again mine):
A state website that tracks the distribution of Sandy aid shows that Hoboken received a $200,000 post-storm planning grant in October out of a $1.8 billion pot of money controlled by the state. Hoboken also received a $142,000 state energy resilience grant.
Besides state money, Hoboken has received $70 million in recovery funds distributed by the federal government, according to the Christie administration. Zimmer said she has applied for $100 million to implement a comprehensive plan to help insulate her city from future floods.
"...only about
$300,000." and $200,000 + $142,000 =
$342,000 seem to be numbers which are far closer together than either of these numbers are to $70 million or any other impressive numbers being tossed around by Zimmer deniers.
It is shocking fun when Faux Noise actually gets something right, if even in a bad article.