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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMayor of San Juan live on Rachel. She is extraordinary. PLeading for the world to help save
them from dying. They just played the earlier recording that many of us have seen but she is live now. She sounds really hoarse, like she is sick or has just been using her voice so much that she is hoarse. This is heart wrenching.
They are being asked to register on the internet for help and they have no internet!
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Mayor of San Juan live on Rachel. She is extraordinary. PLeading for the world to help save (Original Post)
Amaryllis
Sep 2017
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BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)1. She made me cry!
I AM SOOOOO MAD!
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)3. Me, too.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)5. How he can just go away and golf
and not hear her pleas - he is a pig
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)7. And me.
She is passionate and eloquent, speaking up for her people. Not only for San Juan but for the entire island. I don't think we've heard the last of her; I hope not.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)2. I posted about her too. I hope she's recognized as a hero for trying.
What a godawful position she's in. This is insane.
gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)4. This is beyond the pale.
I am outraged. These are Americans neglected by a racist despicable jerk.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)6. KNR
Leith
(7,809 posts)8. I Really Wish She Would Have Said One Thing
"There was better response under Obama."
She was hinting at it when she mentioned the response to the earthquake in Haiti.
She was hinting at it when she mentioned the response to the earthquake in Haiti.