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| Trump Admin Tells Minnesota Governor To Get Bent Over $16 Million Aid Request Following Riots |
| 2020-07-12 |
| [Zero Hedge] The Trump administration has denied a request by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) for $16 million in federal aid to help rebuild widespread damage in Minneapolis caused by rioters protesting the death of George Floyd. Late Friday, Walz spokesman Teddy Tschann confirmed that the July 2 federal aid request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was denied. "The Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial support," said Tschann in a statement. "As we navigate one of the most difficult periods in our state’s history, we look for support from our federal government to help us through." Over 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism following Floyd's death on May 25 while in police custody. According to Walz, over $500 million in damages ensued. Many small businesses and grocery stores, pharmacies and post offices were damaged during the unrest. In his letter to FEMA, Walz said what happened in the Twin Cities after Floyd’s death was the second most destructive incident of civil unrest in U.S. history, after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. On Thursday, Republican Rep. Tim Emmer (MN) sent a letter to President Trump asking for a "thorough and concurrent review" of how state officials handled the civil unrest so that "every governor, mayor and local official can learn from our experiences." "If the federal government is expected to assist in the clean-up of these unfortunate weeks, it has an obligation to every American — prior to the release of funding — to fully understand the events which allowed for this level of destruction to occur and ensure it never happens again," wrote Emmer. "Current damage estimates are now five times their original projections, but the extent of the destruction cannot be calculated solely in dollars and cents," continues Emmer's letter. "Thousands of livelihoods have been permanently disrupted, future economic development plans have been derailed as businesses reconsider investing in and around the Twin Cities, and numerous public lifelines for the community have been cut leaving Minnesotans searching for alternative means of care for their families. "To date there have been no federal analysis of the actions that were - or were not - taken by local and state officials to prevent one of the most destructive episodes of civil unrest in our nation's history." |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #17 Mr. Friedman has claimed a great many things over the years. Has even one proved to be true? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-12 22:56 |
| #16 New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman claims to have coined the term, having used the phrase "the pottery store rule" in a February 12, 2003, column. He has said he referred to Pottery Barn specifically in speeches. According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited the rule in the summer of 2002 when warning President George W. Bush of the consequences of his planned military action in Iraq: |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-07-12 18:09 |
| #15 Let the White Libs who voted these POS's in pay the cost |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-12 17:17 |
| #14 Wasn't it John Forbes Kerry who once admonished us thusly - 'if you broke it, you bought it'? Same thing here. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-07-12 17:14 |
| #13 2 would have been better to give MN the funds but put lots of conditions about requiring an independent review that assures that MN/SP has a protocol for assuring safety of public buildings and a procedure for dealing with public officials who allow rioting They'd welsh on the deal in no time, and a subsequent denial of funds by Trump would be more politically painful than just saying "no" from the start. Let's see if the administration sticks with this. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-07-12 15:29 |
| #12 White men |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-12 14:55 |
| #11 Is Minnesota holding anyone responsible for the riots? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-07-12 14:19 |
| #10 Those with losses can sue the city for compensation. |
| Posted by: Chunky Ebbanter9368 2020-07-12 12:37 |
| #9 Is federal money free? In this case it must be the stick approach. If the state govt does not like it single them out and let he citizens know. In Portland the feds need to step in as the gov and city has failed. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-07-12 12:19 |
| #8 The feds need to publicly bring Out the series of events before the govt of Minnesota and the American public. It must be clear that the state officials, city councils and mayors that actions and inactions have huge consequences. The goal is to help the citizens recover but the govt has has to have the monkey on its back to comply. That means having adequate law enforcement with a mandate to enforcement of the law. This means that governors take responsibility. Serious tough love. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-07-12 12:08 |
| #7 Use the defunding of the police cash. You six year olds tore it up, own it. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-07-12 12:08 |
| #6 Behavior which is rewarded is reinforced. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 11:22 |
| #5 Re: #2 Trump is doing this correctly. He needs a simple slap-down not a complicated negotiation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-07-12 11:20 |
| #4 Trump's Minnesota voters were not from the Peoples Dumbocrapic Rethuglic of Minneapolis, so I don't think this move will hurt him. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-07-12 11:17 |
| #3 The people of MN and Minneapolis voted these clowns in. They own it. Those are the same pols who without a bat of the eye holds all antebellum white southerns as bigots and white supremacists and got what they deserved in 1865. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-12 10:50 |
| #2 would have been better to give MN the funds but put lots of conditions about requiring an independent review that assures that MN/SP has a protocol for assuring safety of public buildings and a procedure for dealing with public officials who allow rioting |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-07-12 10:44 |
| #1 We know that Minnesota is considered a Dem/Socialist stronghold, but I was somewhat surprised to see that the numbers were rather close in 2016. So, being an election year, let's see if Trump continues to flip off Minnesota. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-12 10:19 |