FEMA official who allegedly told workers to avoid Florida homes with Trump signs fired
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Via: vic-eldred • one week ago • 18 commentsBy: Story by Matthew Sedacca, Dana Kennedy
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T he Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor accused of ordering her subordinates to skip Florida homes with Trump campaign signs has been fired.
Marn’i Washington was sacked for telling disaster relief workers in Lake Placid, Fla., to “not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said Saturday.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” she said, adding, “This employee has been terminated and we have referred the matter to the Office of Special Counsel.
“I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this never happens again.”The disturbing directive was allegedly made in late October, as Washington, 39, worked with a FEMA team in the central Florida town in the wake of Hurricane Milton.
“Avoid homes advertising Trump,” she wrote in a “best practices” memo to employees, a copy of which was obtained by Daily Wire.
The instructions also advised them to stay hydrated and to “follow the rules.”
She also gave the direction verbally, according to the report.
Washington’s sister April Brown, 39, claimed she was stunned to hear about her sibling’s brazen actions.
“I’m completely shocked,” she said. “I can tell you that she set out to help and serve all people. With her being in that position with FEMA I can’t see her doing anything like that.”
Washington, who according to her now-deleted LinkedIn has been employed by FEMA since 2019, also works as a regional manager in the Bay Area for the property management firm Avanath Capital Management LLC and lists herself as an owner of the logistics company Olam Industries LLC.
The former FEMA employee, who her sister said grew up in Oakland, has a strong fixation with the history of slavery.
She posted on her Facebook page in 2019 about supposedly the first slave ship to travel to the Americas in the 1500s as well as an article about how California tried to ban free black individuals in the mid-1800s.
“I’m steadfast and extremely unpredictable,” she wrote on her social media page, adding a kiss emoji.
It is unclear why Washington ordered her staff to play politics with their relief efforts, but local officials tore into the former fed discriminating against residents.“In times of need, we’re all Americans,” Dustin Woods, 39, a pastor and member of the town’s Local Planning Agency board, told The Post.
“There are no parties when we are recovering.”Lake Placid Mayor John Holbrook said hearing about her discrimination “really sickens me.”
“When it comes to politics and religion, everybody should just keep that separate” from their jobs, he added.
Workers told the Daily Wire they ultimately skipped about 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags between late October and early November due to Washington’s edict, denying those residents the chance to sign up for federal relief aid in the wake of the harrowing Category 3 storm that caused an estimated $50 billion in damage across the state.
“Trump sign no entry per leadership,” one worker wrote in FEMA’s tracking system when explaining a skipped home, according to a screenshot obtained by the outlet.
Lake Placid was less severely impacted by the destructive storm compared to communities on the state’s west coast, with officials suggesting the damage largely amounted to tornadoes hitting a handful of neighborhoods, and a trailer home park.
Many residents have taken it upon themselves to clean up the destruction and debris with assistance from Highlands County, Holbrook said, adding that he hadn’t noticed a ton of FEMA activity in the area.
“We’re picking up most of the debris ourselves,” he said.
Washington issued her memo after Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and several local residents affected by Hurricane Helene began lashing out at the Biden-Harris administration over the federal government’s sluggish disaster response.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis seethed that the former FEMA employee’s directive was a clear display of the Biden-Harris administration’s “weaponization” of government.”
“At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump,” he added.
Washington did not respond to requests for comment.
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They weaponized just about all of the federal government.
Oh, and if anyone wonders who she is:
Here she is:
Marn’i Washington was reportedly fired from her position at FEMA. Marnâi Washington/Facebook
I dont think anyone was "wondering" what her skin color was . Oh, maybe a few here.
It's vitally important to the right wing.
We weren't surprised. The usual suspects once again.
Who gives a fuck about her skin color?
The worthless ass and those that followed her order w/o question deserve to be fired and have charges brought against them.
Of course the Biden administration won't follow through on the rest of them.
Typical tepid, feeble response, to outright politicization and weaponization of the government by Democrats.
Who said a fucking thing about her skin color.
I guess vic posted the pic because he thinks she's hot?
And yet it was a leftist that pointed it out. Nothing new really.
It seems like you were.
I think at the very least she needs to be called out.
She got fired. Is that the end of it?
Wow, someone got fired for not doing their job...World changing news... /s
If she were a county clerk following her religious beliefs, you’d FTFO.
If your religion tells you to discriminate, you need a new religion, (and a new job).
Oh yea, something separation of church and state...something something... LOL
So she shouldn't have been fired? Who the fuck are you arguing with?
Of she targeted the alphabet club.
STRETCH
Her actions warranted her firing. It was a despicable personal decision that affected those in desperate need. Inexcusable.
Let the analysis end, please. It serves absolutely no purpose.