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Official Who Ignored Request for Water During Maui Inferno: 'Water Requires Conversations Around Equity'
RedState ^
| August 17, 2023
| Jennifer Van Laar
Posted on 08/17/2023 12:35:05 PM PDT by Ebenezer
During the inferno that devastated part of the island of Maui, wiping entire towns off the map and possibly killing more than a thousand people (once a full assessment can be made), people on Maui begged state officials to allow West Maui stream water to be diverted to fill up reservoirs for firefighting. That request went to M. Kaleo Manuel, Deputy Director of Hawaii's Commission on Water Resource Management, and he delayed approval of that water for five hours - five hours in which the once-contained fire exploded. By the time the approval was received, workers were unable to reach the siphon release so that the water could be diverted. Now we're learning that Manuel, an Obama Foundation Leader for the Asia Pacific Region, is a climate change activist and DEI devotee who's said, "Like, we can share [water], but it requires true conversations about equity."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: climateactivist; denialofwater; equity; fire; hawaii; incompetent; lahaina; maui; mauifires; obamafoundation; official; spacelasers; water; wildfires
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This is the type of incompetent nutjob the Democrats like to have in power as long he embraces their radical, woke agenda.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:35:05 PM PDT
by
Ebenezer
To: Ebenezer
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:37:21 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: Ebenezer
No tears from me as Hawaii embraces Democrats...
To: Ebenezer
Should be charged with manslaughter for every death.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:39:13 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
To: Ebenezer
Mauiians got BURNED by their own ideology.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:39:51 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: Ebenezer
And the people there will still vote for an even more progressive democrat.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:40:06 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Ebenezer
Finally, somebody who was willing to put the DIE in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.
-PJ
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:40:07 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Fledermaus
Sacrifice him to the volcano Gods.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:41:25 PM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(Make orwell fiction again)
To: dpetty121263
No tears from me as Hawaii embraces Democrats...Lots of innocents there who aren't Democrats........You laughing at them too?....Sheesh!
To: Ebenezer
To: Ebenezer
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:42:19 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: Ebenezer
Deflecting singular responsibility
"We know we can do better. We're all in this together.”
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:42:26 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
To: Ebenezer
I really do not get. How many more billion tons of evidence do people require that shows anytime democrats dominate a city, town, state, everything goes to hell? Yet the people STILL vote overwhelmingly democrat in these areas. Are they masochists? They love pain?
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:42:32 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Ebenezer
I wager the residents there voted 99% for Crazy Maizie and Slow Joe the Pedo.
To: READINABLUESTATE
Why not. Over 1000 were sacrificed to the water god.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
To: Ebenezer
Share this article because it’s an excellent example of Democratic idiocy, and evidence that woke is dangerous to human lives.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:42:48 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: Ebenezer
100% guaranteed zero heads will roll, and Democrats will be re-elected across the board at every level of government in Hawaii ...
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
To: Fledermaus
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement! There)
To: Ebenezer
OK, so if one privileged minority is going to go thirsty for a day a city must burn down because the city isn’t occupied by that privileged minority.
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posted on
08/17/2023 12:43:35 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The gender binary is true. There are two sexes of the species Homo Sapiens. You are one OR the other)
To: Ebenezer
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