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2017-09-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Something close to genocide': San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz begs for more relief

[Independent] The mayor of San Juan issued an emotional "mayday call" for help for the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico, saying "we are dying here" as a pair of Democrats sought an emergency oversight hearing.

"I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island," San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín said during a press conference. "I am asking the President of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives," she added, warning that "if we don’t get the food and water into peoples' hands what we are going to see is something close to a genocide".

In a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Rep Elijah Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, and Rep Stacey Plaskett, the US Virgin Islands’ delegate to Congress, sought to convene a hearing to address what they called the slow pace of federal help in the aftermath of successive battering hurricanes.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-30 07:23|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Where are our Cadillacs, you racist jankees ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-30 07:33|| 2017-09-30 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 determined to make this "Trump's Katrina", cuz these fooking losers have got nuthin' else

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-30 08:08|| 2017-09-30 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 YOU live on the train tracks. You know it is coming some time. Why did YOU not make sure YOU had a rainy day fund? or people that could drive trucks, or cut wood.

Why are you $80 Billion in debts with only Four million people?

You are no Mayor, you are just another liberal democrat harpee. Just like you FIdiot Governor.

You should not be in charge of shit. Now grab YOUR FIdiot Governor and make him give the FEDS permission to take over.

Bitch.

Posted by newc 2017-09-30 08:38|| 2017-09-30 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Democrat's "Leadership" in action. "Stuck on Stupid" was the phrase used during a similar time.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 2017-09-30 09:19|| 2017-09-30 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 San Juan: all of the corruption of new Orleans, none of the jazz.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-30 09:54|| 2017-09-30 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 "San Juan: all of the corruption of new Orleans, none of the jazz."

HAAAA!

Posted by newc 2017-09-30 10:10|| 2017-09-30 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 When this is all over the Mayor should be investigated to see if she was part of all of those missing hurricane funds.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-09-30 11:46|| 2017-09-30 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Word is their port has piles of relief supplies but this Democrat mayor can't seem to coordinate the delivery of those supplies within her own city. Or is letting those sipplies sit on the dock while she does nothing but bitch at Trump.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-30 14:08|| 2017-09-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 "I am asking the President of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives,"

Ms Yulin, You are the Mayor, and as such the person in charge of San Juan. You're suppose to be the one taking charge and not whining for someone else to do your job for you!

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-09-30 14:11|| 2017-09-30 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 San Juan: all of the corruption of new Orleans, none of the jazz.

Pappy wins this one!

Posted by SteveS 2017-09-30 14:46|| 2017-09-30 14:46|| Front Page Top

#11 She supports a FALN terrorist whose sentence was commuted by Obama.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-30 16:57|| 2017-09-30 16:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Logistic channels are open from the world. What is not open is internal. Not to say we won't help, but how?

No one is capable of clearing that Freeway? Let's start with a place to drive Our perishable goods out, and with secured convoys?

Posted by newc 2017-09-30 18:19|| 2017-09-30 18:19|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm told (Uncorroborated) is that she's good little communist. We'll see, as she gets under the magnifying glass, of at least SOME of the media paying attention

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-30 19:57|| 2017-09-30 19:57|| Front Page Top

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