Latin TimesBy M.B. MackJuly 11 2025A Texas county devastated by deadly flooding earlier this month rejected federal funds in 2021 that could have helped install a flood warning system, with local officials and residents arguing they didn't want to be "bought" by the Biden administration.As far back as 2016, officials considered a $1 million siren and gauge system to warn both locals and the flood-prone region's many visitors, the Texas Tribune reported. But despite multiple meetings and FEMA grant applications, funding efforts repeatedly stalled, first due to missing mitigation plans, then due to shifting priorities after Hurricane Harvey.In 2021, the Biden administration awarded Kerr County $10.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue a warning system.
Did you catch that last sentence? "...political pressure from conservative residents..." Possibly well over 200 dead because they didn't want anything from Biden!
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff's department upgrades and public employee stipends.
All because they hated Biden! CHRON.com wrote,
A newly surfaced video shows Kerr County commissioners and residents in 2021 delaying over $10 million in federal funds—dismissing it as "Biden money"—that could have been used for critical infrastructure upgrades. The decision is now under fire after the destructive July 4 Texas floods exposed weaknesses in the county's emergency systems.[...]In the video, Commissioners Harley Belew, Jonathan Letz, Tom Moser and Don Harris, along with County Judge Rob Kelly, debated whether to accept the funding. Despite warnings about urgent needs—like the sheriff department's outdated communications system—the court ultimately voted 3–2 to delay or decline using the money."We have an untrustworthy administration," said Commissioner Belew. "They've lied to us numerous times and used the virus to get what they want… I don't trust them. This money could come with mandates later."
Their hate cost 160 lives!
"Accepting the ARPA money and putting our County under existing and future executive orders would federalize us and make us all slaves," said Richard King, a 30-year Kerr County resident and Air Force veteran. King urged officials to reject the funds outright, citing the risk of losing local control and facing massive financial penalties.
Their mistrust cost 160 lives! AP News reports;
By CLAUDIA LAUERJuly 10, 2025As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort -- a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone alerts and firefighters going street-to-street telling people to get out.Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.The sirens are a testament to the determination of a community that has experienced deadly floods in the past, warning residents of devastating floodwaters that hours earlier had killed at least 118 people in communities along the same river, including 27 campers and counselors in neighboring Kerr County. That county did not have a warning system like the one in Comfort.Everyone in Comfort, a more than 2,200-person unincorporated community in Kendall County, survived the flooding with many people along the river evacuating in time, Morales said.
There has been a lot of push back on this... claiming it only tells half the story. The country did use the funds to up graded their communication system which they did and it helps with the flood. But they didn't upgrade their siren system! And that made the difference between survival and death.
Bottom line: their politics killed 160 people many of them little girls from the private school!
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