Michael SMerk said it best this AM on CNN... Trump, if you want to visit, WRITE A CHECK. Don't shut down their interstate and use hundreds of first responders for a photo op tour, then leave. You claim to be worth 10 or 11 billion... write a check. A photo op just means people wait longer for help. If you want to arrive and use this place for publicity, at least help them.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/louisiana-governor-dont-need-visit-president-now Obama Takes Hit For Not Visiting Flooded Louisiana, But Guv Tells Him To Wait
Allegra Kirkland
Published August 19, 2016, 8:41 AM EDT
President Barack Obama has come under fire for declining to cut his summer vacation short to travel to flood-ravaged Louisiana, but the state’s governor said a presidential visit at this time would only cause more headaches for officials.
“It is a major ordeal, they free up the interstate for him,” Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday. “We have to take hundreds of local first responders, police officers, sheriffs, deputies and state troopers to provide security for that type of visit.”
“I would just as soon have those people engaged in the response rather than trying to secure the president,” Bel Edwards continued. “So I’d ask him to wait, if he would, another couple weeks.”
Historic floods in the Bayou State have killed at least 13 people and prompted mass evacuations, leaving at least 40,000 homes damaged. Though Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Craig Fugate have toured the flood damage and coordinated the federal government’s response, critics have blamed Obama for finishing out his two-week vacation in Martha’s Vineyard rather than traveling to Louisiana himself.
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Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) canceled a planned event in New York on Friday with plans to tour the flood damage in Baton Rouge instead, the Associated Press reported.
Bel Edwards’ spokesman, Richard Carbo, told the AP that Trump was welcome in Louisiana, “but not for a photo-op."
