Is Obama Angry with Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews?
Brooklyn pols were apoplectic yesterday when FEMA’s list of counties eligible for disaster aid included every New York City borough but theirs. Borough President Marty Markowitz pronounced himself “dumbfounded.” City Council Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia asked, “Are they kidding?”
Waterfront sections of the borough were flooded from end to end, part of the seawall facing the Atlantic Ocean collapsed, and soil was weakened under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights.
City and federal disaster officials said the omission was simply a bureaucratic lag, and Brooklyn will surely be added within days.
Still, some wondered whether President Barack Obama’s administration might be miffed with Brooklyn, where Orthodox Jews angry about his Israel policy hope to flip a congressional seat that was once solidly Democratic. One Democratic officeholder wondered about Obama: “Maybe he realizes that [Assemblyman] Dov Hikind lives in Brooklyn?”
mimmy
surprised? not I.
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boruch hashem///
gam zu litovah :)
Brian
This is absurd. There are no Jewish communities in the affected areas.
not news
what? everyone screams for less spending now you want to spend when we dont need it??!!!
Obamba
yummy
Other Things On His Plate
They can’t seriously think Obama gets involved in these type of decisions. He has plenty of other more pressing things on his plate right now.
no one special
Would seem that it’s time for Brooklyn politicians who have influence (or are respected).