GOP lawmaker asks Biden for disaster relief after voting to defund it

[turbinetree]

By Oliver Willis -October 4, 2021 5:15 PM

Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) is seeking a federal disaster declaration after a major oil spill occurred in her congressional district.

Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) has requested federal help with an oil spill on Oct. 2 in her Southern California district just weeks after she voted to shut down the government and cut off billions of dollars' worth of federal disaster relief funding, including millions to fight fires and drought in her own state.

A reported 126,000 gallons of oil have leaked from an oil pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach owned by Amplify Energy, leading to beach closures and warnings of ecological disaster. Officials say they have begun to find dead birds and fish washing up onto the shore.

Steel's 48th Congressional District includes the Huntington Beach region.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-congresswoman-michelle-steel-southern-california-oil-spill-disaster-declaration-joe-biden/


You know what maybe she should go on local TV and the radio and explain why she wanted to defund this stuff .....just her asking is BS..... she already has shown what she wanted to do....I have no patience for hypocrites.......mad:

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Indeed........

The hypocrisy is mind-boggling!

[ananda]

2. I say start a gofundme page.

...

[ffr]

3. And after the federal government does the right thing to clean up the mess, she'll be re-elected

able to continue on with her small, choke government in the bathtub, agenda.

And the rest of us get to pay for it!!!! Talk about welfare leach!

[NotHardly]

5. She's likely to have a lot of 'splain'n to do for her crowd..

Want money ... hahahahahha... ask nice like.

[rpannier]

8. Huntington Beach has a lot of people who oppose the mask mandates

Last year and into last spring there were a lot of photos of people at the beaches and other crowded areas
I guess it's a libertarian enclave, full of the stupidest

[kozar]

4. Or maybe

Amplify Energy should pay for their own mess rather than us!



Koz

[Whiskeytide]

7. I'll never understand why this is not ...

… the first outcry when something like this happens. Businesses like this that risk catastrophic damage to the environment should be required to purchase insurance to protect the public. If they fail to do so, board members should go to jail. It’s really pretty simple.

[MissMillie]

15. Chicken Dinner!!!!(n/t)

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[halfulglas]

6. It depends. How safe is her district?

By next year she'll probably blame Democrats whether or not she gets a lot of funds her way and they may believe her. I have become such a cynic.

[thenelm1]

9. Huntington Beach is Orange county I believe. n/t

[haele]

17. Her district is safe red.

Huntington Beach full of vacation rentals, real estate tycoons, and late boomer tech entrepreneurs/retirees who forgot what an economic jump start the GI bill gave their parents.

Even in the 80's, Huntington Beach was Republican stronghold.

Haele

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. My pig trough can only be filled. Everyone else can starve

Amazing how two-face Republicans are.

[justhanginon]

11. Republican hypocrisy raised to an art form. Disgusting!

[monkeyman1]

12. I'd say get back to me when you apologize for being really stupid !

[monkeyman1]

16. that's better !

[TeamProg]

18. I just called her office [phone]. They answered! I said I'm from California and

Ms. Steel's district should NOT GET ONE PENNY OF FEDERAL DISASTER MONEY after she voted NO on Fed disaster money for fires and drought in the rest of her own state.



Steel, Michelle
California 48th R 1113 LHOB [phone]

Education and Labor
Transportation and Infrastructure

[TeamProg]

19. Her offices. Please call them! "Not ONE PENNY for the HYPOCRITE!"

Office Locations
Washington DC Office
1113 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]


Huntington Beach District Office
17011 Beach Boulevard
Suite 570
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Phone: [phone]

[lagomorph777]

20. We need a rule to zero out funding for states or districts whose Senators/Reps...

vote against funding.

[femmedem]

22. We didn't like it when TFG tried to limit pandemic aid in blue areas. Your suggestion is the same.

Aid shouldn't be politicized. Not by them. Not by us.

But I fully support campaign ads stating that if she had had her way, no aid would have arrived!

[Captain Zero]

23. Right if she had her way, this Aid would have been DEFUNDED

nt

[TeamProg]

21. I've called both offices - Call them !

Office Locations
Washington DC Office
1113 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]


Huntington Beach District Office
17011 Beach Boulevard
Suite 570
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Phone: [phone]

From American Independent:

Steel's request for assistance comes just two weeks after her vote on Sept. 21 against the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act. The measure, which passed despite all 211 House Republicans present voting against it, includes funding to keep the government running and suspends the debt ceiling. It also contains $28.6 billion in vital funding for disaster relief, including millions to assist those affected by wildfires and drought in California.