I appreciate your take, you having worked in the Federal govt before. Yesterday or the day before Heather Cox Richardson post talks about the governor refusing federal help. ( And she also made the connection between Rs wanting less regulation and how the industry pushed back on additional safety regs certainly could have had an impact here, but I digress.) The social fabric is frayed already and things like this and the response on multiple layers only add to it.
One more example of the disconnect between government and the people government is supposed to serve. The primary culprit appears to be the (Republican) governor of Ohio. But if we weren't so polarized, do you think it would matter which party the governor came from and which the president came from? Doesn't the governor know that he's supposed to represent all the people of his state, regardless of their party affiliation? I have no doubt that Biden would order as much federal support as possible--if he were asked to do so. How, why do Republican governors get away with their efforts to discredit the Democrats at the expense of their states' constituents? When a disaster happens, can't we please set aside our partisan rigidity for the sake of the people?
I appreciate your take, you having worked in the Federal govt before. Yesterday or the day before Heather Cox Richardson post talks about the governor refusing federal help. ( And she also made the connection between Rs wanting less regulation and how the industry pushed back on additional safety regs certainly could have had an impact here, but I digress.) The social fabric is frayed already and things like this and the response on multiple layers only add to it.
One more example of the disconnect between government and the people government is supposed to serve. The primary culprit appears to be the (Republican) governor of Ohio. But if we weren't so polarized, do you think it would matter which party the governor came from and which the president came from? Doesn't the governor know that he's supposed to represent all the people of his state, regardless of their party affiliation? I have no doubt that Biden would order as much federal support as possible--if he were asked to do so. How, why do Republican governors get away with their efforts to discredit the Democrats at the expense of their states' constituents? When a disaster happens, can't we please set aside our partisan rigidity for the sake of the people?