This FEMA supervisor who sent that message later claimed that the practice was not isolated to Lake Placid or even to Florida, and that The political discrimination within FEMA was far more widespread [than Lake Placid or Florida]. And so I am happy to hear that my Democratic colleagues now are saying that politics have no place in disaster response. But I'm disheartened to hear numbers throwing around without examining where those numbers come from. (01:36–01:48)
CLAIM
Asserts that political discrimination in FEMA extended beyond a single location.
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