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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Romney actually tell people not to evacuate? I know he said FEM was "immoral" Like to know
why his religion would say that BUT I've gotten a couple tweets claiming he told people not to follow instructions.
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Did Romney actually tell people not to evacuate? I know he said FEM was "immoral" Like to know (Original Post)
diabeticman
Oct 2012
OP
I got a couple friends who tweeted me that Romney told people not to follow orders to leave.
diabeticman
Oct 2012
#3
Thanks. I should have known but my friends are die hard Romney fans so they love saying things
diabeticman
Oct 2012
#7
brucefan
(1,549 posts)1. What
Are you talking about?
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)3. I got a couple friends who tweeted me that Romney told people not to follow orders to leave.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)2. There's a quote from him floating around
where he told a flood victim to call 211.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mitt-romney-211_n_1848432.html
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.
Chiarello said she told Romney, "I lost everything" and that the presidential contender advised her on how to get assistance. "He said that he was going to do the best that he could for us," she said.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.
Chiarello said she told Romney, "I lost everything" and that the presidential contender advised her on how to get assistance. "He said that he was going to do the best that he could for us," she said.
"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.
drthais
(870 posts)8. i am in Louisiana AND
this is a true story...
it was after Hurricane Isaac a couple of months ago...
people in LaPlace (right next to New Orleans)
had been flooded out...in an area which has NEVER flooded before
he told some poor person to 'go home and call 211'
yeah, right.
like they HAD a home, or HAD a phone.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. Not that I know of n/t
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)5. This thread will explain it:
Posted in GD by nichomachus:
Romney says not to evacuate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021662658
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)6. No. It was a joke post here on DU. nt
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)7. Thanks. I should have known but my friends are die hard Romney fans so they love saying things
Romney said. This seems odd for them. I wanted to make sure It wasn't true.