The US Senate has been on FEMA's tail since January and will be opening hearings next month.
The funeral issue has pushed everybody over the edge, since it is clearly and simply understood by all that it is the job of the county medical examiner to say who has died of what. They are the sole authority.
The examiners say there were 123 hurricane-related deaths, yet FEMA doled out money for 315 funerals.
The helpful FEMA workers may have taken too much on themselves. The fact that they were not checked in their generosity by those higher up is the issue at hand.
Then there's that little deal with the $31 million bucks that went to Miami-Dade County although it suffered no hurricane conditions whatsoever.
Posted by floridacracker at April 12, 2005 09:07 AMIsn't there something in the state constitution that *requires* Miami-Dade to be given money when anyone else is? right up there with "the public's right to hideously expensive transportation boondoggles shall not be abridged"?
Some things never change. I grew up in Pensacola and dreamed of secession.
Posted by: Drew at April 12, 2005 04:43 PM