When superstorm Sandy struck Fire Island off of Long Island’s south shore, it washed away more than 70 feet of a sand dune, revealing a shipwreck thought to be a cargo ship that dates back to just after the Civil War — or possibly a Canadian schooner that was lost in the 1920’s. (Photo: US Coast Guard via The New York Daily News)
FOR A RIDE Waves washed over a destroyed roller coaster in Seaside Heights, N.J., Wednesday. Parts of New Jersey sustained massive damage from Sandy. (Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images via The Wall Street Journal)
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“I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested. I’ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that’s much bigger than presidential politics and I could care less about any of that stuff. I have a job to do. I’ve got 2.4 million people out of power. I’ve got devastation on the shore. I’ve got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don’t know me.”
— New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in an interview with NBC on the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy.
In a separate interview with MSNBC’ “Morning Joe,” Christie added to the praise, saying that “the president has been all over this and deserves great credit.”
“He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything,” he added.
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Over the last two years, Congressional Republicans have forced a 43 percent reduction in the primary FEMA grants that pay for disaster preparedness. Representatives Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other House Republicans have repeatedly tried to refuse FEMA’s budget requests when disasters are more expensive than predicted, or have demanded that other valuable programs be cut to pay for them. The Ryan budget, which Mr. Romney praised as “an excellent piece of work,” would result in severe cutbacks to the agency, as would the Republican-instigated sequester, which would cut disaster relief by 8.2 percent on top of earlier reductions.
