Disaster used as political payoff (By FEMA to Pat Robertson)
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/343813p-293471c....
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has done it again.
Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the
federal disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief
donations into a political payoff - until it was challenged.
All last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the
agency's Web site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity
run by controversial right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition
founder Pat Robertson.
For anyone wishing to donate only cash, the agency's site listed the
names and phone numbers of three groups: the Red Cross, Operation
Blessing and America's Second Harvest, a national coalition of food
banks.
That first list was followed by a second, longer list of several dozen
religious and nonsectarian charities. This second list was for anyone
who wanted to give either cash or noncash gifts.
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