Juan Gonzalez (NY Daily News): Disaster used as Political Payoff

[brooklynite]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has done it again.

Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief donations into a political payoff - until it was challenged.

All last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the agency's Web site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity run by controversial right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.

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Those who know Robertson's record raised such an uproar that on Sunday FEMA suddenly rearranged its entire Web site for hurricane donations.

Gone was Operation Blessing's name and choice location. Replacing it was an alphabetical list of nearly 50 national relief organizations.

At FEMA, they take a while to get things right.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/343805p-293471c.html

[misscoko34]

1. caught their asses huh?

their hands got slapped while dipping in the cookie jar. fixed their asses.

[BurtWorm]

2. Juan was talking about this on Democracy Now this morning.

I noticed Operation Blessing is on a list the NY Times posted of FEMA approved charities today. That "charity" needs to get off the list NOW!!