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Florida Politics
Well well well, business as usual in Tallahassee. I'd put a spin on it but it seems like one of Bill Nelson's Staffers did it for me:
Dan McLaughlin, spokesman for U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla, said he was not surprised "that a consultant for the Bush administration would consider politics before the needs of hurricane victims."
For those of us Floridians, we've come to live a life where both our State and National leaders put politics over compassion.
And, like his elder brother, Jeb tried to cover it all up...oh there's more:
Like this:
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.
I'm honestly too pissed off to give quotes from the entire article. But for Jeb, I'll do a little more:
politics was foremost on the mind of FEMA consultant Glenn Garcelon, who wrote a three-page memo titled "Hurricane Frances -- Thoughts and Suggestions," on Sept. 2.
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FEMA should pay careful attention to how it is portrayed by the public, Garcelon wrote in the memo, conveying "the team effort theme at every opportunity" alongside state and local officials, the insurance and construction industries, and relief agencies such as the Red Cross.
"What FEMA cannot afford to do is back itself into a corner by feeling it has to be the sole explainer and defender for everything that goes wrong," he wrote. "Further, this is not what the President would want. Plenty is going to go wrong, and his Department of Homeland Security does not want to assume responsibility for all of it."
Garcelon, a former FEMA employee, recommended that "top-level people from FEMA and the White House need to develop a communication strategy and an agreed-upon set of themes and communications objectives."
This won't get much media play because of the Shiavo case, which dominates Florida news even more than National news.