Bill Nelson: Puerto Rico Has Been Treated ‘As Second Class Citizens’

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NELSON: "Well, Puerto Rico has been treated the citizens as second class citizens. They’re our fellow U.S. Citizens. You just don’t treat fellow U.S. Citizens that over 10 months they don’t get electricity restored. I’ve been to the mountains, places totally cut off. It took two weeks to even open up some roads. I went to another town in the mountains, eight months after the hurricane a third of that city still did not have electricity. Food rotted on the docks. There was no transportation distribution system. There were not supplies prepositioned. Gasoline was not prepositioned. Now, Ana, can you imagine if that happened to one of the 48 mainland states? People wouldn’t put up with it. And yet, that’s what has happened to our fellow U.S. Citizens in Puerto Rico. And then the insult to injury, lord have mercy, when the president says that almost 3,000 people did not die. That’s beyond the pale, and the FEMA director who ought to know better backed him up. That’s inexcusable."