Fired FEMA Official: Avoiding Trump Supporters Also Happened in Carolinas
“So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance, not just in the state of Florida, but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas.”
FEMA fired Marn’i Washington for telling workers in Florida after Hurricane Milton to avoid houses with signs supporting Donald Trump.
Washington told Roland Martin it’s not an isolated incident. It also happened in the Carolinas after Hurricane Helene:
They all alleged that these actions were made on my own reconnaissance and that it was for my own political advances.
However, if you look at the record, there is what we call a community trend. And unfortunately, it just so happened that the political hostility that was encountered by my team, and I was on two different teams during this employment. They just so happened to have the Trump campaign signage. FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then deescalation.
So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance, not just in the state of Florida, but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas.
Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you that they do not know. But if you ask the DSA [Disaster Survivor Assistance], crew leads, and specialists what they are experiencing in the field, they will tell you demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports.
The FEMA official who was just fired for telling workers to avoid homes impacted by the hurricanes in Florida if they had Trump signs says that it was not "isolated" and that FEMA workers were instructed to do it in the Carolinas too. pic.twitter.com/BpBdZFSSPR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 12, 2024
Scorched earth. I love it.
On Monday, Rep. Greg Staube (R-FL) told Fox News that “there are alleged text messages from Washington, DC to the supervisor advising them and directing them to do this.”
The House Oversight Committee already vowed an investigation.
I think everyone figured it wasn’t an isolated incident.
How awful.
Here is Washington’s full interview. Holy moly.
Former FEMA official Marn'i Washington, fired for allegedly telling workers to avoid Florida homes impacted the hurricane if they had Trump signs, says this was not an “isolated” event
She says FEMA is lying & this was standard protocol in other statespic.twitter.com/iAAqoXB55Y
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Her ignorance is only exceeded by her ignorance. And her misuse of the English language…..
“made on my own reconnaissance”
Unless she scouted out the area ahead of time, she’s failing at sounding intelligent.
For anyone in the Cincinnati area: “How does this afternoon find you, Mr. Burjank? I happen to be one of the Cincinnati Bengals, who wish to remain synonymous, because what I have to say might besmirch my reparation.”
That’s not her, that’s the faulty transcript. She didn’t say “reconnaissance”, she said, or attempted to say, “recognizance”. It came out as “recognices”, which isn’t a word, but it’s clear which word she was attempting to say.
Which is an odd word to use in this context, since it means basically a promise to a court to do something or face a penalty. Most people know it only in the phrase “released on his own recognizance”, i.e. the court didn’t demand anything more than the person’s promise. Somehow she seems to have confused it with “of his own initiative”.
You would defend a murderer with a bloody knife in his hand.
You would gladly hang an innocent person if you didn’t like her.
The comment about her English usage was simply false. It was based on a false premise. You can’t dispute that. But you don’t care.
You don’t care what is true or false, only what is most useful to you, today. Tomorrow when your interests change your opinion will change too, because it’s not based on anything else.
DEI, Baby!
“I think everyone figured it wasn’t an isolated incident”
Tip of the iceberg.
I believe her in part. There may indeed have been Trump supporters who gave a piece of their mind to FEMA workers and this was welcomed as an excuse to avoid such properties for worker safety. An investigation will probably support her in this claim. However, it was a stupid thing to do. No way did this ignoramus do it alone.
Have you ever dealt with FEMA?
I did after Hurricane Hugo in 1989-90. They talk down to you and are pure assholes, to put it mildly. I can see why someone got their ass on their shoulder and from my experience the FEMA official instigated any confrontation.
I don’t doubt some random hurricane victim got lippy with some FEMA underlings nor that it happened often enough for a policy (official or informal) to be made to avoid confrontation by simply bypassing the homes of the folks most likely to be less understanding of gov’t ineptitude; those with Trump signs.
The things is that’s tough cookies. Part of the job. Just like the countless videos online of LEO who overreact and escalate when someone refuses a questionable to unlawful command. Public employees, particularly those who are in direct contact/public facing with Citizens gotta be able to keep their cool in the face of criticism. If they can’t set their ego aside they need new work elsewhere where they don’t interact with the public; maybe passing out office supplies at HQ or handing out hand towels in the bureaucracy bathroom.
“They need to work elsewhere.”
“Would you like a large fry with that Big Mac?”
“by simply bypassing the homes of the folks most likely to be less understanding of gov’t ineptitude; those with Trump signs.”
Disgusting. It’s like a defective mezuzah.
It stops aid now, but it didn’t stop the vaccine gestapo back when.
I see. Trump hurricane victims are so violent to Federal assistance that avoidance was the only course of conduct allowed.
I have been through 4 hurricanes, 2 with Fema teams flown in the day afterwards. The type of conduct she alludes to is unlikely in the extreme.
Lets take this to the extreme. Did anyone die becuase of this.
How many of you have dealt with FEMA in the past? I did in 1989-90 after Hurricane Hugo.
If any confrontation occurred I am 100% positive the FEMA official instigated it. They are the worst excuses for humanity and love to throw their weight around.
The head of FEMA is a lesbian and she has already told her people to be extra generous to the LBGT+ crowd. This message about Trump supporters came from the top.
So we’re past the “it didn’t happen” stage and the “it happened, but it was an isolated event done by one person” stage. Now we’re on the “You’re darn right it happened, it was policy because those Trump people are evil and deserved it” stage
We’re at the point where, “We used voter rolls to determine who got aid.”
Again and again and still again: It’s not enough to fire these wretched petty tyrants. PUT THEM IN PRISON for wreckless endagerment, depraved indifference, gross malfeasance which put lives at stake, and threatened public safety.
But, oh no, we can’t hold any one in govt. accountable for their actions because we just luv playing wack-a-mole here in *clown world* so it can happen all over again.
Good grief.
This is a lie. We were assured that it was not happening in western NC although I spoke with church groups, national guard units and truck drivers for several companies that assured me it most certainly was happening. One national guard unit was deployed and then stopped on the side of the road by FEMA for 4 days and refused entry into the area. Several truck drivers for major outfits like WalMart and Amazon told me , I know the drivers through over 30yrs of driving, they were directed away from where they wanted to go and to offload at FEMA warehouses only or they would be arrested, trucks impounded and their licenses revoked.
I’m willing, at this moment, to take her at her word. Now, I’m curious though and want to know (1) why is she so upset that an outside contractor leaked the text message giving the directive and (2) why is she not sharing the message (written or digital) that she recieved instructing her to follow this? Seems a bit like there was some clear “profiling” afoot at FEMA.
As I posted 18 U.S.C. § 241, If a death occured then the 10 years can of to life or death penalty. Scorched earth. Full kit, no knock warrants, zip tied 4am on front lawn for hours and every available trick to prevent bail. Followed by re-arrest by state officials with same tactics. You can’t hate them enough.
U.S. citizens have so much to be proud of.
Such leadership
Maybe FEMA staff needs additional taxpayer-funded travel and lodging and ball playing.
FEMA was non-existent in Georgia. All the counties affected were heavy Trump supporters.
Everything she says may be true.
The key is to not let her off the hook because she was “just following orders.”
The word you’re looking for is “conspiracy.” As in, “All members of the conspiracy are able to be charged with the crimes of the others in the conspiracy.”
People in regions directly impacted by natural disasters are shell-shocked. I’ve witnessed the effect first hand, and there’s no mistaking its effect on their immediate post-catastrophe behavior.
Some of the people I interacted with (in a ad-hoc wildfire refugee camp) just needed someone to talk to over a hot cup of coffee/cocoa .. at midnight or 3am. To unload their personal story. All I did was listen to their story. That’s it. Listen. And I think they felt better for it – heck if I did anything but stand there – and at a loss for words.
Sometimes there would be three people sitting at the outdoor long table all telling their stories at once – like a counter at an all nite diner – with me nodding and refilling coffee cups.
Because they couldn’t sleep. And I was just the guy manning a privately owned and funded (free food) full service catering truck 10pm-7am.
First response teams.
FEMA literally need to deploy grief councillors along side the usual first response search/rescue and first aid teams. Train them together in units.
Everyone is familiar with Red Cross first aid certification courses, we need the same instruction for ordinary people to be certified for emergency field grief response.
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