FEMA employee fired after telling relief team to skip houses with Trump signs following Florida hurricane

[MichMan]

A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after they advised their disaster relief team to avoid homes with signs supporting former President Donald Trump while canvassing in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the agency’s administrator said Saturday.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the actions of the employee “reprehensible” and said they have been terminated from their role.

“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors,” Criswell wrote in a post on X before describing the employee’s actions. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.”

“This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct,” she added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fema-employee-fired-after-telling-relief-team-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs-following-florida-hurricane/ar-AA1tMlOm?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[XanaDUer2]

1. Why, sounds like something a MAGAT would do!

Nt

[a kennedy]

2. Exactly what I thought....but we DO HAVE TO HEAL.......ok, may-be not for awhile yet.....

but, that’s wrong, ya gotta help EVERYONE in time of need. JMHO.

[stopdiggin]

4. the very fact that it would need be affirmed

and underlined ....
discouraging doesn't quite cover ... but, just proves that we have boobs and low caliber people in many places/positions.

[Igel]

5. Wasn't sure if the jpg of the instructions were valid.

Now I assume they were.

But I understood why the lapse was made: There was a long list of dos and donts for staff coming in to help offer help and pass along information to residents. All of the dos and donts dealt with staff safety, and this was when all the news was abuzz about threats towards FEMA staff.

Wrong, but understandably (because blinkers and myopic views of the "locals&quot so.

Giving a degree of insight into the "team" was not just recommending "water" but options such as "coconut water."

[stopdiggin]

9. happened a while back - - not in response to election -(nt)-

[hardluck]

3. Good. Deserved to be fired.

[SKKY]

6. As well they should be fired...

...that's the shit MAGA does. Not us.

[Jack Valentino]

8. Maybe they should have only made a 'private list' of those houses with Trump signs---

like that MAGAt sheriff in Ohio encouraged MAGAts to do with those people who had Harris-Walz yard signs....

[stopdiggin]

10. shouldn't be making any kind of lists period

knock on doors - listen - try to help ...

[Jack Valentino]

12. We did. It didn't work.

However, I am playing the devil's advocate--- I don't believe in 'making lists' either--

but this FEMA employee was only doing what they thought was the most effective response in an impossible situation--- since Trump & co was spreading the misinformation that if you accepted FEMA assistance, you would lose your home, among other incredible falsehoods--

if I were them, I probably would have skipped the Trump-sign houses too.
Let them "do their own research"

[Jack Valentino]

7. Sounds like common sense, after what Trump/MAGAts said about FEMA---BUT

it was improper behavior for a FEMA employee. Full stop.

They just made the mistake of trying to prioritize assistance towards those
who were more likely to accept it...

[lame54]

11. Trump just found his new fema head

[Jack Valentino]

13. HA!!!! That IS funny! I salute you!

We all realize how little he cares about his own supporters

[JulioIglesiasFan]

14. Could

you be any more giddy about the arrest?

[MichMan]

15. What arrest are you referring to?

No mention of anyone being arrested in the OP.

[The Grand Illuminist]

17. Political affiliation, ideology, and party are NOT protected classes.

That is the scapegoat.

[alarimer]

18. Might have been worried about getting shot.

Given how much the right has denigrated FEMA.