Another Media Event : Garrett Criticized  over Sandy Response
October 3,2014
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Here they go again , less  than a month after getting spanked with the silly “fake bridge-gate scandal ” . New Jersey’s mainstream media groups are back at it again looking to demonize Republican Scott Garrett  over a pro-ported embellished  flier on Garrets work on Sandy relief..

Yes Garret Voted against “Sandy Relief” just like he voted No over Katrina relief. The Heritage Foundation noted that “While Hurricane Sandy was a major disaster, the majority of the funds originally requested by the Obama Administration and in the subsequent Senate passed Sandy bill were to be spent beyond FY 2014.  Furthermore, far too much of the funding goes toward superfluous programs that are not related to Hurricane Sandy relief, from repairs to the Smithsonian Institution to upgrades to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration airplanes to more funding for the federal government’s epic educational failure known as Head Start, among myriad other extraneous items.  The inclusion of $16 billion in wasteful community development funds is also concerning, especially because the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated it would need a comparatively much smaller $5.2 billion for its “unmet needs.”  These non-emergency measures prove how irresponsible Washington has grown, unabashedly using a natural disaster to spend more taxpayer money.

This legislation not only contains glaringly excessive spending, but it also feeds into Congress’s problem of failing to budget responsibly. ” https://heritageaction.com/key-votes/no-on-supplemental-appropriations-for-disaster-assistance-2/

On top of the pork barrel  nature of the “Sandy Aid”  worse  yet has been the distribution of funds in New Jersey  which the Record not surprisingly failed to mention  that since the “Sandy Aid ” has passed even Jersey City’s Democratic mayor called New Jersey’s allocation of federal disaster relief a “disaster,” and said the state “has a poor track record” of working with local municipalities. https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/04/fulop_tells_congress_njs_distribution_of_sandy_aid_is_a_disaster.html

“The distribution of federal Sandy relief aid was arguably not entirely based upon non objective data, slow to be forthcoming, unresponsive to homeowners and business,” Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said. “In a word, the distribution of the aid was in and of itself a ‘disaster’ of our own making.”https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2014/04/fulop_tells_congress_njs_distribution_of_sandy_aid_is_a_disaster.html

Some people take their fiduciary responsibility very serious  Garrett said in April,  “Our fiscal situation is dire.  Each of our children and grandchildren are on the hook for nearly $56,000 of our $17.5 trillion dollar debt.  It’s time for us to put an end to the overspending and borrowing of more and more money each year.  Today, the House Budget Committee puts forth a budget that recognizes that the status quo is unacceptable and unsustainable.  Rather than continuing on the road to debt and decline, we instead offer a path forward that focuses on economic growth, expands opportunity, and restores fairness.  Years of foolish overspending have brought us to this point, but America’s current economic path is no laughing matter.”

Some people even politicians care about their Kids and the future and Scott Garrett is one of them . In April  Garret issued the following statement , “Our fiscal situation is dire.  Each of our children and grandchildren are on the hook for nearly $56,000 of our $17.5 trillion dollar debt.  It’s time for us to put an end to the overspending and borrowing of more and more money each year.  Today, the House Budget Committee puts forth a budget that recognizes that the status quo is unacceptable and unsustainable.  Rather than continuing on the road to debt and decline, we instead offer a path forward that focuses on economic growth, expands opportunity, and restores fairness.  Years of foolish overspending have brought us to this point, but America’s current economic path is no laughing matter.” 

Meanwhile Garret helped out with the Post Sandy clean up even taking time to hand out Turkeys for Thanksgiving at Lowe’s in Paramus . In Ridgewood Our Lady of Mount Carmel church  made a massive effort to reach out to the community offering food and shelter with little or no help from “sandy aid” .

The funny thing is now the New Jersey “media”like the Bergen Record or NJ .Com , the Star ledger and a few others , organizations that never covers Scott Garret, never attend his press briefings , never reports or bills or policy debates in Washington hosted by Garret , suddenly are experts on everything Scott Garret was up to during the post Sandy cleanup ?  We seem to have heard all this before

So this all begs the question , What was Investment Banker Roy Cho , doing in the aftermath or hurricane Sandy