Grimm combat: Bay Ridge rep at war with Boehner over Sandy relief
Almost two weeks have passed since House Speaker John Boehner shockingly refused to let that very unpopular body vote to approve a desperately needed $61 billion Hurricane Sandy aid fund. The very same measure had passed the Senate with wholehearted support from most Republican senators and almost all the Democrats serving there.
Moments after the so-called “Fiscal Cliff’ was avoided, chaos broke out on Sandy Aid.
New York Reps. Mike Grimm and Peter King, both Republicans, took to the floor to denounce the Republican leadership delaying financial support to tens of thousands from the Jersey Shore into Brooklyn and Breezy Point up to Connecticut. Despite a number of public protests by both Grimm — whose Staten District included Midland where six people lost their lives during the hurricane — and King, there has been no satisfactory explanation by Boehner. He still won’t say why he pulled the Sandy bill and exposed Grimm, King and other Republicans to public ridicule.