Governor Cuomo Announces $2 Million to Support Displaced Hurricane Maria Victims Living in New York
Earlier today, Governor
Believe it or not it was last September that hurricane Irma and Maria devastated
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The President believed the
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Alright? The President says the job they did in
Now this is all federal speak, right? They could have better leveraged existing information. That means they could've talked to people and found out what was really going on. That's what that was trying to say. Now that the federal government has acknowledged its failure and now that we know that the president was wrong and maybe misinformed about the federal response, but now that we know the
Just to give you an idea of what we saw yesterday, and we were throughout a good part of the island throughout the past two days, so we saw areas around San Juan, the coast, but also the central mountain area: this is yesterday, and this is yesterday and this is the damage yesterday. So, you can see, 10 months later, the damage is significant and it is everywhere. People are still shoveling mud out of their homes. Today they are still shoveling mud out of their homes 10 months later. You still have garbage piled up on the side of the road. This looks like a condition that could have happened two weeks before. That's the way much of the island still looks. Now, there's always a duality: the richer people, the richer communities had the resources to do the reconstruction themselves. It's always the poorer people and the poorer communities that are the last to recover, right? Because they are the ones without the resources. But this is
So, 10 months later, we still haven't even met the basic needs. What our people are doing is basic repairs. They are fixing rooftops because the rooftops were blown away and the rooftops are leaking. So they're literally, 10 months later, still doing very basic repairs, of keeping water out of the home. We're not talking about new resiliency, new infrastructure, new power grid, new green projects. 10 months later, please help me fix my roof so the water doesn't come in. 10 months later, please take down the blue tarp so I can actually have a roof on my home. That's where we are in
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We are also faced with a situation where many people left the island in the aftermath of the storm. We have about 11,000 Puerto Ricans in
And our other responsibility as New Yorkers is to demand federal responsiveness from the federal government. The federal government has now admitted what they refused to admit. They were either negligent or incompetent or uncaring. Maybe they just didn't give a darn. But whatever the motivation, whatever the reason, they compounded the damage and the harm that happened in
You have a federal report that damns the actions of the federal government. You have a federal report that says the President of
I will say today what I said on the first visit, the situation in
Let me make a statement on another topic and then I will turn it over to my colleagues. The speed camera bill - the speed cameras expire today. Speed cameras were authorized by the state legislation. They provide extra safety in school zones to stop vehicles from speeding. They have been proven to be highly effective. They have been proven to save lives. Many families have lost loved ones and the speed cameras were a reform that was put in place after the loss of life. At least learn and change and grow, and that's what the speed cameras are. We've been debating this issue in
Now, they don't want to admit they're against it. So they come up with excuses and point fingers. "We should have a special session." You don't need a lightning bolt from heaven. You don't need divine intervention. You don't have to do a novena. The bill is on their desk. The Assembly passed it. Just go back to
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