Greenfield raps Romney response

[Mass]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles... /

Greenfield raps Romney response

By Megan Tench, Globe Staff | October 12, 2005

GREENFIELD -- Residents and local officials lashed out yesterday at Governor Mitt Romney, saying he had been slow to respond to the destruction caused by torrential rains in Greenfield and other parts of Western Massachusetts over the weekend.

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''Where's the governor now?" said Alan Harvey, 49, a construction worker who spent most of the day yesterday picking through his soaked belongings at Wedgewood Gardens, a community of mobile homes that was wiped out by the Green River, displacing all 75 residents.

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Greenfield's mayor, Christine Forgey, yesterday appealed for $1 million in emergency funds. She said she has been trying to get in touch with Romney, but as of late yesterday afternoon had been able to reach only Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey's chief of staff.

''I am urging the governor to declare us a national disaster area to get us federal funding to help with the devastation," she said.

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''The governor's office hasn't even acknowledged that it's rained," said Representative Christopher Donelan, a Democrat from Orange, as he distributed a letter he had written to Romney asking him to declare a state of emergency for portions of Western Massachusetts.

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[paineinthearse]

1. Of course he has been slow

The silver spoon can be in only one state at a time. Mittens has higher priorities, he's been politicking in North Carolina. See "http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1841604&mesg_id=1841604 - Romney warns of theocracy danger - <25 Replies> - in LBN. I'd point you to the Massachusetts forum cross-post, but it would not be as colorful a read as there have been only two replies, and those commenting about the lack of action in the forum.

But a word to Mayor Forgey. Mittens is Governor of the Commonwealth and unable to "declare us a national disaster area...". Sorry dear, you must be a rethug with delusions of grandeur. Only the PoUS can declare national disaster areas.

Nominated!