Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Blasts Biden Admin for Only Including 11 Counties in First FEMA Declaration
“So we called the White House, we spoke to the — to the president’s chief of staff, the FEMA administrator, and said, ‘Look, you’re sending the signal that you’re not paying attention to some of these rural communities.’”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp expressed outrage at the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to include only 11 counties in the initial FEMA disaster declaration.
KEMP: “When the first emergency declarations came down, there was only 11 counties in that. A lot of people were outraged, including me, because there was such devastation in — in — you know up to 90 counties. So we called the White House, we spoke to the — to the president’s chief of staff, the FEMA administrator, and said, ‘Look, you’re sending the signal that you’re not paying attention to some of these rural communities.’”
Gov. Kemp says he was "outraged" that only 11 counties were included in the FEMA Disaster Declaration:
"We called the White House… and said… you're sending the signal that you're not paying attention to some of these rural communities."
Why were the RURAL COMMUNITIES left… pic.twitter.com/Qi1SDUWxG6
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 3, 2024
Biden picked the 11 counties on September 30.
FEMA quickly added 30 more counties the next day.
As Leslie wrote earlier, DHS Sec. Mayorkas cried that FEMA doesn’t have enough money.
Priorities, man.
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What was it they said about Bush during Katrina? So I guess Joe Biden hates white people.
And your point is what?
Hating white people is considered laudable today.
Everything for illegal alien criminals and foreign wars, nothing for Americans. You can’t hate the government enough.
“Mayorkas says FEMA doesn’t have enough money to make it through hurricane season, but apparently it had enough to spend $1B resettling illegal aliens into the U.S” ———–
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo
BOLD PREDICTION: This is a colossal unforced error on the part of the Biden-Harris administration that will lead to a calamitous election defeat across the board for democrats.
Harris could have VERY EASILY shown prompt leadership (even if she simply copied what DeSantis was doing) and would now be the woman of the hour. But, since she has no leadership skill (because she has no brain), people are dying because instead of FEMA leading recovery efforts, they’re actively thwarting them.
My condolences to everyone that’s affected by this awful disaster. Perhaps this is what we need to vanquish these marxists from our midst and take back control of our governance.
I think it’s even worse than that PM! Had Kamala had some vaguely half capable staff around her they would have seen the opportunity for her to display some leadership.
Instead she went fund raising with “her people” in LA while Americans suffered from a Hurricane!
As someone said here last week, he was afraid for what the October surprise could be! But here it is, an issue handled so badly that not even the Democrat whore media can save Black Diversity Hillary from herself 😂
“Had Kamala had some vaguely half capable staff around her”
I suspect by this point she has more staff openings than staff.
Leftists don’t know any of that.
Literally I was talking to one a couple days ago and I said I think this is going to hurt Biden and Harris.
You know what he said?
‘No, Kemp already said everything was great, Trump is just a liar’. Then he started spewing about ‘do you know how many Republicans have come out against him’ and starting ranting about Jan 6th.
They have NO IDEA it’s happening or how bad it is.
Too many Trump supporters in them thar hills. Uncle Bubba Sam knows it well.
You’ve made an excellent point. What TPTB seem to have underestimated is that if you cut off part of NYC from their polling place they’d just sit back and take it. Those that live in Appalachia are far more self reliant and given a month they’ll figure out how to get people to the polls.
Eric Coomer is nt concerned with that
Does Appalachia include the town of Athens, Tennessee?
Ironically, one of the most devastated counties in NC – Buncombe County (Asheville) – voted for Biden 60/38 in 2020. It was one of only two counties west of Charlotte that Biden won in the state. We’ll see if they’ve learned their lesson now.
That would be no.
When I encountered this article, the first thing that went through my mind was do these 11 counties vote majority Democrat?
I know right?
Kemp is largely responsible for Biden being in the Whitehouse
Hopefully, persons holding POTUS office from fraud have no immunity
Nitrogen hypoxia doesn’t send the right message…
Never let it be said that the Biden/Harris administration was entirely profligate with the public treasury.
The Governor’s choice of occupant for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is roosting there, so his anger is unmoving; his constituents should remember that if he runs for reelection.
The first day he was out there bragging about what a great job Biden was doing and that he had a personal conversation with him where Biden ‘asked what he needed’. The ONLY purpose of saying it was to try and help them politically when they were being absolutely savaged for their horrific incompetence.
NOW he suddenly he realizes that they’re incompetent morons?
Kemp can FOAD. I am so sick of that RINO trash.
“NOW he suddenly realizes that they’re incompetent morons?”
Not really. The voters have realized that Kemp supports an incompetent moron. That’s what Kemp realizes.
Good point.
harris went there looking for neatly mowed lawns
maybe NOT this town
but how many towns are being wiped out ( flooded etc) b/c the government has ordered dams be torn down so that the grasshoppers may thrive!!??
Rural areas simply don’t count as much as urban areas. That’s the message being sent here. Yes rural communities and lightly populated countryside often in remote and treacherous terrain is more difficult to get aid into. Far easier to bring a convoy semi trailers off the interstate to ‘designated distribution center’ than go up into the hills, mountains or out into the countryside. FEMA is broken based on what I’m seeing second-hand.
Rural communities and State gov’t should definitely take note of what’s going on here. When the urban goons demand new use of eminent domain for installation of additional high voltage power lines to bring electricity to cities and AI data centers ….just remind them the area is inaccessible and tell them to pound sand.
And this is a joke too …
https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20241003/biden-harris-administration-provides-more-20-million-hurricane-helene
I was working at a motel in Florence, SC while attending college when Hugo rolled through in 89, and we had several FEMA officials staying at State Senator Ed Young’s motel (my employer).
FEMA people are not nice and the one that owed $500 in phone charges to a 900 number that I couldn’t bill the federal government for got visibly angry with me, stalked me and made several attempts to get me in trouble.
I’m not getting on the initial declaration for the number of counties. Biden’s administration didn’t know what was going on at that point and neither did the governors if you want to be honest. No one knew how bad it really was. FEMA approved more the next day and more after that as conditions became known. However, after those declarations the lack of action is appalling.
Biden, and his administration, haven’t had a clue since January 2021