Ashley B. Moody: “This FEMA supervisor who sent that message later claimed…”

“Members of the community were reeling after that storm, trying to figure out how they were going to provide for their family, safeguard their property. And yet FEMA employees were instructed to avoid homes that advertised support for the President. 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. 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.” (01:38–01:50)

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