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The Wikipedia:political reactions to Hurricane Sandy include various political commentary and reactions from politicians. It includes the result of comments and positions by Wikipedia:Mitt Romney on the Wikipedia:Federal Emergency Management Agency. These positions were highlighted when Wikipedia:Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29th, 2012. It also includes the political response of Romney, his surrogates, and other Republicans to the President Obama's response to the storm. This includes the reactions of Governor Wikipedia:Chris Christie and Mayor Wikipedia:Michael Bloomberg.

Romney's current position is to cut the FEMA's budget by 20 to 40 percent.[1]


Explaining his position in the Republican Party Presidential primary debate on Wikipedia:CNN in June, 2011, Romney said: [2]

KING: What else, Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?
ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut—we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot...
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot—we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.[3]


When Wikipedia:Hurricane Sandy made landfall on 29 October 2012, the Wikipedia:New York Times posted an opinion piece titled, 'A Big Storm Requires Big Government'. The opinion piece argued that FEMA was needed in natural disasters and cited statements by Wikipedia:Mitt Romney proposing dramatic cuts to the agency.[4] This started a period of questions to Romney about his past statements and positions, which he declined to answer.[5] [6] Some commentators had previously suggested that Romney's refusal to rule out cuts to FEMA (should Wikipedia:Paul Ryan's budget plans be implemented) was evidence Romney plans to cut FEMA's budget by 20 to 40 percent. President Wikipedia:Barack Obama has proposed a 3 percent cut.[7][8]

Effect on campaigning[edit]

Following the storm, Mitt Romney recast an October 30 campaign stop, in which Senator Wikipedia:John McCain also spoke,[9] as a relief event, distributing $5,000 dollars worth of supplies for hurricane victims.[10][11]

Reactions to Obama administration disaster response[edit]

Governor Wikipedia:Chris Christie offered significant praise for the President and his reaction to the Hurricane. He also toured the areas of New Jersey that were hit by the hurricane.[12] Wikipedia:Michael Bloomberg endorsed the President, citing the storm as a reason why.[13]

Michael Brown, the FEMA director under President Wikipedia:George Bush during Wikipedia:Hurricane Katrina criticized the administration for seeking press before the storm.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Khimm, Suzy Obama cuts FEMA funding by 3 percent. Romney-Ryan cuts it by 40 percent. Or more. Or less.. Washington Post.
  2. ↑ CASSIDY, JOHN Romney Has a Christie Problem and a FEMA Problem Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#ixzz2ApYjw0VT. The New Yorker. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  3. ↑ CASSIDY, JOHN Romney Has a Christie Problem and a FEMA Problem Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#ixzz2ApYjw0VT. The New Yorker. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  4. ↑ A Big Storm Requires Big Government. New York Times. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  5. ↑ Wasson, Erik Reports: Romney ducks questions on FEMA funding. The Hill. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  6. ↑ Sabrina, Siddiqui Mitt Romney Refuses To Talk About FEMA After Hurricane Sandy Event. Huffington Post. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Khimm, Suzy Obama cuts FEMA funding by 3 percent. Romney-Ryan cuts it by 40 percent. Or more. Or less.. Washington Post.
  8. ↑ CASSIDY, JOHN Romney Has a Christie Problem and a FEMA Problem Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#ixzz2ApYjw0VT. The New Yorker. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  9. ↑ Rafferty, Andrew McCain rips Obama on Libya at relief event. NBC. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.
  10. ↑ A $5,000 Shopping Run to Walmart Turned Romney's Campaign Stop into a 'Relief Event'. The Atlantic. URL accessed on 2 November 2012.
  11. ↑ Sink, Justin Romney hosts ‘storm relief’ event in Ohio. The Hill. URL accessed on 2 November 2012.
  12. ↑ Horsey, David Chris Christie and Hurricane Sandy give Obama a timely boost. LA Times. URL accessed on 2 November 2012.
  13. ↑ HERNANDEZ, RAYMOND Bloomberg Backs Obama, Citing Fallout From Storm. [New York Times]]. URL accessed on 3 November 2012.
  14. ↑ Petri, Alexandra Obama response to Sandy — too fast? Bush’s FEMA head worries.. Washington Post. URL accessed on 31 October 2012.

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