Vance Attacks FEMA For 2023 LGBTQ Outreach

Sen. JD Vance writes for the Wall Street Journal:

A week went by while the citizens of North Carolina suffered without the equipment and soldiers needed to save lives and begin recovery. This is the sort of bureaucratic hiccup that engaged political leaders solve. A competent leader would have ordered those men and women into motion earlier, bureaucracy be damned. Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden treated the situation like a public-relations disaster instead of a real one.

FEMA even seems to be picking winners and losers among the American people. In March 2023, FEMA hosted a panel titled “Helping the LGBTQI+ Community Before Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation Considerations.” Ordinary Americans of all backgrounds know that especially when it comes to disaster relief, federal agencies exist to serve all Americans, not to give some groups special treatment.

President Trump and I are realists. We know there’s no perfect disaster recovery and that a storm like Helene will bring hardship to American towns no matter how well the government responds. But this wasn’t the response that the people of Western North Carolina deserved.

Read the full op-ed. No paywall. Many on X are savaging the WSJ to giving Vance a platform to spread debunked lies.

The Biden-Harris response to Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm since Katrina, has the people of the Southeast and especially Appalachia paying an extraordinary price for the administration’s incompetence, writes @JDVancehttps://t.co/AK6EWHWqMs

— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) October 8, 2024

the thing to know about this stupid opportunistic drivel op-ed in the WSJ by RJ Vance is that they published it under his name knowing almost certainly that Vance did not write a word of it. His campaign wrote it. I bet he still has not even read it. https://t.co/vHZ6qWqESa

— Thomas Goetz (@tgoetz) October 9, 2024

Today, the Wall Street Journal published an OpEd written by Vance.

This OpEd is filled with debunked lies about the current FEMA response.

It’s PROPAGANDA that will harm victims.

Shame on @WSJopinion !

Shame on JD!#wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue https://t.co/JLXoH5oB9c

— Just Joan 🇺🇸💙🏳️‍🌈💙🇺🇦💙🇳🇴 (@jmrbux2) October 9, 2024