Mike Lawler

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71 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 17 Dec

Mike Lawler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Obviously, Texas is proceeding forward.
The challenge here, you look at New York.
Kathy Hochul has some, you know, chutzpah here.
The fact is she tried to do partisan gerrymandering back in 2022, and the New York State Court of Appeals threw out the map because it violated the state constitution.
I was executive director of the state Republican Party just over a decade ago when, in fact, New Yorkers went to the polls and adopted a constitutional amendment to ban gerrymandering and require an independent redistricting commission.
That is the law of the land in New York.
It does not allow for mid-decade redistricting.
internal review warning the federal emergency management agency is not prepared for hurricane season which starts june 1st here is the main takeaway john quote as fema transforms into a smaller footprint the intent for this hurricane season is not well understood thus
FEMA is not ready.
In other words, amid staffing cuts and shortages, plus directives by this administration to further downside for disaster relief to be pushed away from the federal governments and to the states.
Not only do FEMA employees believe that they are not prepared for hurricane season, they don't even know what their role is, what their job will be.
Other slides in this PowerPoint presentation pointed to problems with morale as well as interagency.
agency coordination.
One top FEMA official told me today they've been afraid to speak out but now feel like they need to share what is going on inside the organization that is illegal.
Another FEMA staff member put it to me this way, I want to read from my notes, quote, my impression of our readiness is that it is a physical impossibility for FEMA to be able to support disasters.
With even a similar efficiency to last year, hundreds of years of cumulative learned experience and expertise have been lost.
And, John, we know that hundreds of FEMA employees have both been fired and taken those voluntary buyouts afforded by this administration.
Today, the acting administrator at FEMA held a 30-minute town hall where he was asked, are we prepared for hurricane season?
He said, give me a few weeks to figure that out.
He doesn't have a few weeks.
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