Radnofsky says Texas is getting shorted
2006-09-28
Source: Marshall News Messenger
email this
print this
del.icio.us
digg this
rss feedJust days after the first anniversary of the largely-forgotten Hurricane Rita, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Ann Radnofsky talked of several key issues in her campaign, including statewide topics of drought and hurricane relief.
Marshall is Ms. Radnofsky's 522nd campaign stop, and she spent Tuesday afternoon in a meeting with Marshall Marshall Messenger editor and publisher Phil Latham.
The wife, mother of three, teacher and retired attorney outlined areas of importance in the hour-long session.
"I've spent plenty of time in East Texas," Ms. Radnofsky said. "But I haven't neglected any part of the state either. I will tell you that hurricane issues, the incompetence of (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the inability of Texas....to get our fair share for Texas of FEMA money and of hurricane relief money is on everybody's mind."
One can't drive toward Orange without seeing the devastation of Rita, Ms. Radnofsky said, which although significantly less than Katrina, still destroyed more than 600,000 homes across 85,000 square miles, according to FEMA estimates.
Congressional leaders, including Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson have dropped the ball in getting aid to Texas, Ms. Radnofsky said, and she is not sure why "the entire delegation with all of its power, including the governor, and our senior senators and our junior senator and the statewide delegation was ignored, in terms of what our needs were.
Click here to see the full article.
