Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not taking calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about storm recovery just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his state.
A source familiar with the situation said he was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political,” according to a DeSantis aide.
“Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” the DeSantis aide told NBC News.
The same person said “not to my knowledge” when asked if DeSantis had spoken to President Joe Biden.
Two other officials with DeSantis’ office said that so far, there has been no effort by Biden to reach out to the governor on Hurricane Milton.
This is such a bullshit thing to say. If the sadistic antihuman monster known as DeSantis didn’t accept contact from them regarding Helene, why would he expect them to immediately reach out to him on Milton? Current administration’s efforts would be better spent coordinating with someone who is actually interested in the well-being of Floridians.
No fucking duh it’s political, she is an a political post, you are in a political post. Not all politics is bad, some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need
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The GOP gave up on attempting to even put up a facade of “we’re trying to help you” at least a decade ago. At this point, they’ve convinced their voters that we cannot afford to help everyone, so we only help minorities. And because of that, they would rather we just help nobody.
When the reality is, we could very easily provide for all of the needs of every citizen several times over if people actually paid their fair share in taxes.
But you add in the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mindset that has infected the minds of American workers, and you end up with a bunch of sad, angry, jingoistic people who do everything they can to make sure nobody gets any help for anything.
Well, that is, until they personally need it. Then it’s different.
Almost as if there’s been a concerted effort for decades to push concepts like “rugged individualism” over collectivism, and “American exceptionalism,” while literally sabotaging our own education system so that people remain ignorant enough to continue voting against their interests…
some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need
And here is where you lose conservatives, and why, at its core, it is a rotten ideology.
Until it is literally them that needs the help. But then its different. They’re different.
Coward
Inb4 DeSantis claims the Government is ignoring Florida when it comes to hurricanes
He’s such a petty little bitch. Put your heels on and just take the call, Ronnie.
Party before country, right?
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I truly hope that’s what they’re doing.
Tampa’s mayor should get in contact directly. This is going to be very bad, and they are going to need all the help they can get.
Imagine endangering the lives of your constituents because politics.
You would think any man that short would want all the help he can get when the water starts rising.
I knew this was gonna happen. I honestly wondered a few hours ago “I wonder how many times the WH has tried to call Desantis and he just didn’t take the call to be petty.”
If he’s got legit governor stuff to do when there’s a Cat 5 on the way, I get it. I live on the coast. But I knew he would pull a stunt like this just to be a dick.
Pretty sure they have an auto dialer.
I’ll say this, if trump had won I don’t know a democratic governor who would consider not taking a call from pence after a national disaster. Every governor pulling this needs recalled
Run down the chain then. Local county officials have a lot less to lose by working with the federal government to save their constituents.
What a little piss baby loser
What a petty little man-child.
