Esquire just published a very telling passage from the conservative-leaning Lowell Sun newspaper. This was published just after serious floods that happened in Massachusetts on Mother’s Day, 2006:
We find it inconceivable that Gov. Mitt Romney claims the state can do nothing to help those residents still struggling to rebuild homes and businesses after the May flood. Massachusetts is sitting on millions in unspent emergency funds from Hurricane Katrina and more than $1 billion in cash reserves, yet Romney has failed to even respond to the Lowell delegation’s requests to discuss additional aid for victims. The governor’s spokesman — since Romney can’t be bothered to comment now that the photo opportunities have dried up even though some residents’ basements haven’t — said the state will not consider spending its own money for flood victims until it’s clear how much cash the federal government will give.
Part of the reason why flooding was so bad? Huffington Post explains:
In the spring of 2004, Peabody, Mass., got drenched with rain, which flooded the downtown area. After the storm, then-Gov. Mitt Romney asked President George W. Bush to declare Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk Counties federal disaster areas, according to the Boston Globe.
That fall, the state legislature proposed spending $5.7 million on a flood prevention project to protect against future floods. Those funds would be matched by $22 million in federal money.
Romney vetoed it.
When you’re dealing with a candidate as sketchy and shifty as Romney, his brief record as an elected leader is perhaps the most telling guide you have. Romney has demonstrated an inability to prepare for the future, and then an inability to face the consequences of his actions when the future arrives.
I guess this answers my comment from the climate change post. Forget a couple days, apparently a couple hours is too big of an ask.
Paul, why haven’t you written a post yet about how NY is predominantly Democrat, therefore there will be less votes for Obama next week because presumably more Democrats have died in the last 24 hours, and lament that if only just a few more of those corpses had cast their ballot earlier then this storm wouldn’t be such a huge victory for Republicans at the ballot box? Obviously can’t be because you’d find that type of post tasteless.
Are you actually paid by Obama’s campaign? I have little faith in either candidate (less so in Romney) but you really come across as a troll. Not so much someone people should rely on to form opinions (which they should form on their own if they are not sheep)