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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuffPo: As Governor, Mitt Romney Was Slow To Respond To Disasters In His State, Local Critics Say
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney argues that federal disaster response should be handled at the state level, but when disaster struck Massachusetts, he was missing in action, according to some of the state's local politicians.
On Oct. 9, 2005, heavy rain storms caused the Green River to rise to historic levels and begin flooding into Greenfield, Mass. The flooding destroyed a trailer park and demolished swaths of low-income housing. Roads were impassable. The flood waters submerged the town's water treatment plant.
As the rain fell and the Green River rose, Greenfield's then-Mayor Christine Forgey tells The Huffington Post that she did not hear from Romney. About 75 people, including many retirees, lost their homes in the trailer park, she says. Still many more were displaced. Forgey says a resident opened up the high school and used it as a crisis shelter. A radio station launched a food and clothing drive and the Red Cross provided services.
On the first day, Forgey says she did not hear from Romney. Nor the second day. Nor the third. Romney wasn't in Massachusetts when the flood hit, and the emergency did not alter his plans. The Associated Press reported at the time that the governor had been scheduled to speak to an economic club in North Carolina. "If the governor thought for one second he was needed here today, he would be there," a spokesperson told the AP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/mitt-romney-disaster-response-massachusetts-_n_2041142.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)he would govern much like bush if not worse
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)no doubt about it!
LisaL
(44,967 posts)LisaL
(44,967 posts)How could election even be close?
SunSeeker
(51,502 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It's not.
They claimed it was close the last time too.
It wasn't.
By rights Mitt should lose more than McCain.
Cha
(296,746 posts)Too busy counting his money in the Cayman Islands and turns out Cheating his Mormon Church out of their tithings. What was that he and the mrs were muttering about giving to charity? Freaking LIARS.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He sent his brain dead LTGOV out to assess the damage from flooding in one city. She stepped out of her SUV, there were a bunch of people left homeless crying on the sidewalk, pleading for help... she flipped her hair, adjusted her hardhat, took a few pictures pointing at the water, got into her vehicle...and LEFT. She couldn't even be bothered to SPEAK to the people huddled by the side of the road waiting for the Red Cross.
He SUCKED as a governor--it's why he won't win "his own state" (as he calls it--it is not his state, he was not born here, he did not grow up here, and he was paying resident taxes in Utah when he took out papers to run for governor).
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)His LT gov was visiting her parents with a health crisis. The crap hit the fan on that thing, he has been running ads sayiong how wonderful he is ever since, and they are back onTV now -- NOOOO, I really hate that guy
Cut fromthe ROmney cloth except he is not as rich and has no excuse of bad upbringing.