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I've been in the middle of a lot of these disasters. It's not fun. Citizens are in pain. Help doesn't come fast enough. Mistakes have been made. Federal government can't solve historic failures/deficiencies of a city or territory through a hurricane response. 1/
I've spent two different nights in two god forsaken places truly believing that I would get fired. It's nature of job. As a former commandant of the Coast Guard told us that night "we are expendable. The Gulf isn't."2/
But what you can't do is create more pain for a community in distress. You can't make it about you. You can't get into the scrum. Not your job (now I can but I have no government responsibilities.) 3/
A leaders job in a crisis is to provide a community two things: numbers and hope. Numbers of response teams, tents, housing, food, supply chain, etc. numbers that show you are going big. And hope. That tomorrow will come. Such an easy thing to do. And Long chose blame. 4/
I'm sure he was overwhelmed. Tired. Under pressure from WH during Puerto Rico. But he made it about him. And while he may have many strong attributes, and his leaving might have to do with wall funding (unclear now), 2 words: numbers and hope. 2 more: Puerto Rico. 5/5
