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Big kerfuffle recently about purported incidents of FEMA workers neglecting or avoiding Florida homes with MAGA or Trump signs. One FEMA worker has been fired in connection with the alleged incident. That worker, Marn’i Washington, is now speaking out, and her story is that workers encountered extreme hostility at houses with MAGA signage. This tracks with documented incidences of threats against FEMA workers, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and paranoia fed by right wing news sources, and unfortunately, the Republican Presidential Candidate.
We have a political party, now in control of the highest levels of government, who not only have an agenda of denying the catastrophic effects of climate change, but are positively motivated to undermine any coordinated response to those effects. Reminder: Project 2025, the blueprint now being implemented for the Trump administration, proposes the breakup of FEMA.
The fired FEMA employee accused of telling her survivor assistance team not to go to Florida homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump tells “ Dan Abrams Live” she is being used as a scapegoat for a common agency practice.
“Firstly, I’m being framed,” said Marn’i Washington Monday. “There’s no violation of the Hatch Act. I was simply following orders.”
Washington told NewsNation the instruction to avoid certain houses based on campaign signs was from her direct superior based on previous team encounters, adding that “safety precautions are not politically driven.”
Instead, they’re trend-driven and can change day by day, she said.
“It just so happened that, unfortunately, most of the hostile encounters, those running trends, did have those campaign signs,” Washington explained.
“So again, it’s a collective effort in order for everyone to feel comfortable, in order to render the servitude. I don’t have a horse in that race. My orders come from my superior, and I simply just execute,” she added.
“It just so happened that the political hostility that was encountered by my team … they just so happened to have the Trump campaign signage,” she told Roland Martin in an interview on November 12, calling FEMA’s decision to not contact Trump-supporting households a tactic of “avoidance.”
The direction from FEMA officials to avoid pro-Trump households is in line with other tactics of avoidance, Ms. Washington told Mr. Martin. Some homes in Florida have either rocks or trees in their yards that are painted purple, which FEMA associated with a number of threats from homeowners against the agency’s employees, which led FEMA to tell their team members to avoid homes with those purple rocks and trees as well.
“Instead of a privacy sign or a ‘no trespassing’ [sign], they would rather paint purple,” Ms. Washington said.
