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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCompany With Controversial Contract to Help Puerto Rico Is Feuding with the Mayor of San Juan
Company With Controversial Contract to Help Puerto Rico Is Feuding with the Mayor of San Juan
http://time.com/4997772/san-juan-puerto-rico-whitefish-energy-holdings-carmen-yulin-cruz/
In the midst of backlash over its $300 million contract to restore Puerto Rico's power grid, Whitefish Energy Holdings is openly sparring with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.
Whitefish has been under scrutiny ever since it signed a contract with Puerto Rico's semi-public power utility PREPA without a competitive bidding process. The company, based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's home state of Montana, was also only founded two years ago, and had just two full-time employees.
Cruz has voiced her own criticism of the company, saying the contract should be "voided right away" and calling the deal "alarming" in an interview with Yahoo News published Wednesday. She also called its efforts to restore power to Puerto Rico, where millions are still without electricity more than a month after Hurricane Maria battered the island, "inadequate," Yahoo reports.
On Wednesday, Whitefish fired back with a statement on Twitter. "We share the mayor's frustration with the situation on Puerto Rico," the company wrote, "but her comments are misplaced. ... We find her comments to be very disappointing and demoralizing to the hundreds of people on our team that have left their homes and families and have come here to help the people of Puerto Rico."
Cruz responded to the statement on Twitter, calling for transparency from Whitefish. From there, things got ugly, with Whitefish tweeting what many, including Cruz, interpreted as a threat to pull employees from the battered island.
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Company With Controversial Contract to Help Puerto Rico Is Feuding with the Mayor of San Juan (Original Post)
KelleyKramer
Oct 2017
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.99center
(1,237 posts)1. Has the world gone insane?
Carmen Yulín CruzVerified account @CarmenYulinCruz
"If @WhitefishEnergy feels that asking for transparency is misplaced, what are they afraid we will find."
Link to tweet
Whitefish Energy @WhitefishEnergy
Replying to @CarmenYulinCruz
"Weve got 44 linemen rebuilding power lines in your city & 40 more men just arrived. Do you want us to send them back or keep working?"
Link to tweet
SunSeeker
(51,512 posts)2. Jesus. Is Whitefish having Trump write their tweets?
KelleyKramer
(8,901 posts)4. That's what I thought
It sure sounds a lot like Trump
And what a terrible move from a PR stand point (which also sounds a lot like Trump)
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)5. Isnt Whitefish just 2 people that will needs months to hire contractors?
Skittles
(153,111 posts)8. oh make no mistake
these grifters had them lined up the moment that hurricane hit
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)9. All 84 of them
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)6. Cruz was not tweeting as a woman having an opinion
She was tweeting as the top politician in her political party, unless she was tweeting as a private citizen.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)7. Trump keeps draining that swamp
and turning it into a rat-infested sewer.
tanyev
(42,516 posts)10. Seems like the 2 man company would be way too busy right now to get into Twitter spats.
Of course, it seems like the President of the United States would also be way too busy to get into Twitter spats, so there's that.