“Frankly, some people understand how that didn’t make the federal government look good.”
Operation Blue Ridge has ended, and Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back against criticism of Florida directing limited state resources to North Carolina and Tennessee in the aftermath of Hurricane Helen.
DeSantis said Florida “did the right thing” and “saved lives” during the “humanitarian disasters” that occurred in North Carolina and Tennessee last month.
And what about the critics? They said they were beating the clubs for political purposes.
“Frankly, some people understand that rescuing people before the state of Florida has even set foot on the ground didn’t look good on the federal government. So for some people, We know it’s kind of political. They’re trying to act like we shouldn’t be helping,” DeSantis said Monday at the State Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee. spoke.
DeSantis also argued that it would probably have been logistically easier to send Florida search and rescue teams out of state rather than deal with the red tape of temporarily relieving them of their duties.
“In any case, by the time recovery operations, search and rescue operations were carried out after Helen, they would have been stopped. It’s easier to just bring them back because if you remobilize, there’s a period of time and it just takes a little bit longer for people who are not on active orders,” DeSantis said.
He added: “Any insinuation that we somehow rescued people and saved lives in North Carolina last week is 100% false that it has any impact on what we’re doing here today.” he added.
The governor previously said that Florida’s response to storm damage in the Blue Ridge Mountains to “bring people back safely” was “the same as when October 7th happened and Floridians were drawn into the Israeli-Hamas war. ” he said. Haiti began to become even more chaotic than usual. ”
On Monday, he declared the “mission” complete.
“We’ve helped Floridians who are still out there, but we’ve also helped a lot of North Carolinians who were in need and had been abandoned in a way. So it was a successful mission. It was really transformative.”
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