Stormy
By ddepledge
The National Weather Service Employees Organization endorsed U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono for U.S. Senate on Sunday in part because of her opposition to $126 million in House Republican budget cuts to the weather service in 2011 that could have impacted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach.
But this year, it is the Obama administration that has been criticized for proposing about $30 million in cuts to the weather service for fiscal year 2013, including money for tsunami awareness and the maintenance of deep-ocean tsunami warning buoys.
House Republicans rejected the Obama administration’s cuts and restored the money in their version of the annual spending bill for commerce and justice programs approved in May. The Senate looks to follow.
Former Gov. Linda Lingle’s campaign pointed out on Thursday that Hirono, like most Democrats, voted against the Republican-backed bill.
“Hirono voted against the best interest of our state – a state in a tsunami high-risk zone – and against one of our most important life-saving tools, by voting against fully funding the Tsunami Warning Network,” retired Maj. Gen. Robert G.F. Lee, Lingle’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
Political Radar
September 14th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
“The Perfect Storm”. It actually happened October 30, 1991.
Better known as the “Halloween Storm” which hit the entire
Eastern Atlantic Seaboard.
September 11, 1992, Hurricane Iniki hit Hawaii.
With all the high tech equipment in Japan,
no one could predict the magnitude of damage that would come after.
An earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster. April 11, 2011.
Fukushima, Japan.
Our future depends on the whether of two running for Senate.
September 15th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Oops! The Weather Service Union should have probably looked at her actual voting record before supporting her…simply having a D after her name obviously is not going to help the union.