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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Maybe, Guv?

...President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina before Helene made landfall. Tennessee governor Bill Lee, a Republican, did not ask for such a declaration until this evening, instead proclaiming September 27 a "voluntary Day of Prayer and Fasting." Observers pointed out that with people stuck on a hospital roof in the midst of catastrophic flooding in his state, maybe an emergency declaration would be more on point... 

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-27-2024?r=35ogp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email