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2024-11-10 Government Corruption

House Oversight calls on FEMA director to testify after official tells workers to avoid homes with Trump signs

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-10 00:35|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 FEMA woman who 'told workers to avoid Florida homes with Trump signs' is fired

Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-10 00:46|| 2024-11-10 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 So this happened when? and it just came to light a couple of days ago? Seems like if it were as far out of normal procedures as the admin is claiming, some worker bee would have blown the whistle as soon as the instructions came out.

BTW__ what's in a name? "Marnie" was a grifter in the novel and movie of the same name.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-11-10 08:27|| 2024-11-10 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Fire the FEMA director at minute one. She was gonna get replaced anyways, but a firing before the clock even strikes one on 1/20 will send a message.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-11-10 08:34|| 2024-11-10 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Get the House Oversight start talking about repealing the Civil Service Act, given that 90%+ are registered for one party and act accordingly. It is not a non-partisan bureaucracy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-11-10 09:26|| 2024-11-10 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Only the President gets to fire people. They can impeach the FEMA person. That would definitely be a signature end to this shart of an administration. In reality, everyone will be too busy job searching to do much with this. The political theatre is closed until January.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-11-10 10:04|| 2024-11-10 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 report from earlier this week showed that a FEMA supervisor advised her team to “avoid” Florida homes “advertising Trump.” That supervisor, Marn’i Washington, says she is a "patsy” and that FEMA made her a “scapegoat.”

Washington told the Washington Examiner that not only did she and her teams canvas houses with Trump signage, “we’ve registered and provided resources to Trump supporters.”

The language in the leaked screenshot was “shorthand,” according to Washington. She explained the full context: Washington let her supervisors “know specific streets we could not do because of hostile political encounters,” and according to communications obtained by the Washington Examiner, she was encouraged and supported in her decision to avoid certain streets “to keep the team safe.”

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-11-10 11:00|| 2024-11-10 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Suuure. Then name names. Turn on your higher-ups!

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-10 11:04|| 2024-11-10 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Turn on your higher-ups!

Or cry racism and sexism and fall on your sword, hoping the Machine will find you a cushy spot to land. I suspect Marni was *not* an isolated instance at FEMA.

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-10 11:13|| 2024-11-10 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 They need to take FEMA and make the Vice President the head of it.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-11-10 11:26|| 2024-11-10 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10 ^
Or place it under Musk. It’s basically logistics which will fall under the auspices of efficiency.

Posted by Warthog 2024-11-10 17:44|| 2024-11-10 17:44|| Front Page Top

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