Houston Councilman, "I beg you not to send the Red Cross a penny. They are inept"

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In part of a broader rant that also roped in a perceived lack of assistance from his native New Orleans ("Send me your darn trucks, Mitch," he said, a plea for the Big Easy's mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to send waste trucks westward to haul off storm debris),

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Uhhh sorry Houston, NO needs them to continue filling up to 30% of capacity at home.

A football player........by himself........using social media, has raised more than Red Cross. And at least JJ Watt knows how the money will be spent, unlike slapdick Red Cross CEO.

FWIW, Kingwood was ravaged and is still reeling.

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A football player........by himself........using social media, has raised more than Red Cross.

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I think a lot of people are on to the Red Cross. Definitely affecting their donations. Most folks I know were looking to donate time/money to targeted causes.

You are much better off donating your money to a local charity or church than the Red Cross.

A co-worker just got back from volunteering in Houston last weekend. He was there doing water rescues. He said the Coast Guard caught the Red Cross driving around with empty trucks when they were supposed to be/said they were hauling supplies. These trucks had nothing in them and the CG caught them lying about it.

Almost sent more money to RC. Had already given to Beck's Mercury One. I trust Beck. I think that TRC has become like the US Government...more of an employer than an efficient deliverer of service.

We are working through our church in BR, but I'd contribute to the Salvation Army before the Red Cross any day.

A group of us went and volunteered last weekend to cook for which wound up being 2,600 people. We brought travel trailers, food, fuel, etc. completely self-sufficient. Goal was to get to Houston but on made it to Lake Charles and had a contact beg us to come to the arena where the Cajun Navy and others were staging... well that was a shite show...

What we did find out is that The Red Cross closed 5 evacuation spots run by volunteers and forced them to go to the Alexandria location that they had set up. They even took hot food cooked by volunteers and threw it away. They were threatening the volunteers and locations with being arrested (who the frick gave TARC any sort of power is beyond me).

Here is the kicker... TARC gets 14.00 a plate for each evacuee paid by FEMA (tax payer dollars).

To be explicitly clear. frick THE RED CROSS. They need to be dissolved immediately. Lucky for us, we were able to find a private location and help the Orange Texas OEP as well as a lot of other people on food delivered.

If it's any organization, it's the Salvation Army for me.
I'd also keep away from the 5 amigos (POTUS's).
Believe that money is laundered through a Bush foundation.

It, like many of these organizations, started off with good, honorable and needed cause and ended up becoming too big and too beaucratic.
It's sad