(10-01-2017, 10:56 AM)TJBender Wrote: Yes, because the mayor of a city in a US territory with no Congressional representation is watching her people die so she can have...a future in local politics?

Weaksauce argument for you and Trump to latch onto. She's a local government official advocating for her people and out there leading search and rescue teams when she isn't trying to get help from the mainland. The suggestion that she's intentionally holding things up is ridiculous and insulting to her. The federal government consistently botches disaster after disaster. Look no further than the delayed reaction in lifting the Jones Act. Why would this response be the fault of local government?

Oh, right, because a Puerto Rican woman dared to call out the Cheeto for handling Puerto Rico about as well as Bush handled Katrina.

The fact that you don't see her politicizing this disaster is crazy. She is a known corrupt entity and has completely spoken out contrary to what the Puerto Rican Governor and other agencies have stated. The Puerto Rican government has been corrupt for decades and their inability to properly prepare/reinforce infrastructure has caused the real issues. The U.S. has had FEMA on location two weeks before the first hurricane even made landfall. Once ocean ways were clear, ships were on their way. Planes were ready the day after the storms. The problem once again was infrastructure. No usable airports or safe airspace, no port workers, no truck drivers, no equipment drivers, clear roads, no power, nor fuel, etc. This is not a Federal Government botch, this is a Puerto Rican Government botch. This damage is so large scale that the DoD is having to take over to plan and engineer new infrastructure so supplies can get in and distributed. I can tell you the response is large and similar to our initial war/conflict deployments. USNORTHCOM has been coordinating DoD assets and responding hardcore.

http://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/

FYI, the Jones Act has zero implication on the initial response or distribution of supplies around the island.

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