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BRENNAN: Do you expect though that Republicans will still help Californians in need even if they don't like their local politics and the party?

SEN. BARRASSO: I expect there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved ...

Republicans? Disgusting.
The strings attached: fill water reservoirs, not defund the fire departments, and clean up the forests so incompetent politicians in Los Angeles can’t destroy the joint again. Reasonable actions with positive outcomes are the opposite of disgusting.
 
The strings attached: fill water reservoirs, not defund the fire departments, and clean up the forests so incompetent politicians in Los Angeles can’t destroy the joint again. Reasonable actions with positive outcomes are the opposite of disgusting.
Nope. Local policy discussion/decisions should not take priority over getting aid to the citizens who desperately need it. While the GOP is happy to strive for political points when people are suffering, that shouldn't be how America operates.
 
Nope. Local policy discussion/decisions should not take priority over getting aid to the citizens who desperately need it. While the GOP is happy to strive for political points when people are suffering, that shouldn't be how America operates.
The tent-people in NC say “hi.”

Also, does Barrasso have any rationale behind those asinine assertions or is he just talking out of his ass?
 
The tent-people in NC say “hi.”

Also, does Barrasso have any rationale behind those asinine assertions or is he just talking out of his ass?
Barrasso is the Senate Majority Whip, so as a Republican Party leader it would come as no big surprise if he was "just talking out of his ass."
 

Fact-check: Los Angeles fires fuel falsehoods, including by Trump about water management
  • Regional water reservoirs in Southern California are at historical highs. Hydrants ran dry during recent firefighting because the city’s water infrastructure was not built to respond to fires so large.
  • A change in Northern California’s water management would not have affected the fire response.
  • Social media users revived Trump’s 2018 and 2019 claims about California’s forest management and said the current fires prove he was right. Newsom said the state has expanded its forest management efforts since then, and experts told PolitiFact that some of the fires began in shrubland that forest management wouldn’t affect.
 
FWIW, fire retardent

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There's a running spreadsheet that's being passed around industry folks currently showing over 200 people / families who have lost their homes (and in some cases, their businesses) to the fires. Massive losses to the musical family in LA.

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I cannot fathom the loss across all the people out there. So much devestation.
 
@crimsonaudio - did they do one for Helene victims too? Just asking - I don't really know. Thanks!

Hurricane Helene affected the following states:

  • Florida: Made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region
  • Georgia: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • North Carolina: Experienced severe destruction, with about half of all deaths occurring in the state
  • South Carolina: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • Tennessee: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • Virginia: Experienced catastrophic damage
Hurricane Helene also caused damage in Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
 
@crimsonaudio - did they do one for Helene victims too? Just asking - I don't really know. Thanks!

Hurricane Helene affected the following states:

  • Florida: Made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region
  • Georgia: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • North Carolina: Experienced severe destruction, with about half of all deaths occurring in the state
  • South Carolina: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • Tennessee: Experienced catastrophic damage
  • Virginia: Experienced catastrophic damage
Hurricane Helene also caused damage in Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
MusiCares always has money ready to help people in the music industry in need, most commonly healthcare issues unrelated to weather. I don't recall a major effort to fundraise and help victims of Helene but I also don't know that a large number of musicians (and industry people) were affected like these fires. They typically have enough cash on hand to handle issues (based on donations from Academy members as well as annual fundraisers) but from what I've seen these fires have had an unprecedented impact on the music industry.
 
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From Fox News:

Jessica: You hear Speaker Johnson.. he thinks aid should be conditioned..

If Joe Biden who by the way has signed every major disaster declaration right away and given everybody the capacity aid they are asking for and wanted to put more money in the FEMA budget and the Republicans took it down several billion dollars.

If he said, Louisiana I'm not into your politics, you should do things differently or Georgia or any other conservative state or Florida.

I mean he has been so bipartisan in this, it's not the moment to say this is going to be attached to something conditional about you doing this the way that I think you should.
 

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