On September 9, Donald Trump dismissed the idea of granting the people of the Bahamas documentation waivers for various reasons including that the U.S. is “also recovering from the hurricane.”
Terrie Rizzo, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, hit back:
“Donald Trump’s hostility to granting temporary protection status and documentation waivers to the people of the Bahamas because the United States is also recovering from Hurricane Dorian is petty and it is small-minded. The Bahamas has a population of less than 400,000, the idea that the world superpower of the United States would somehow be burdened by providing aide to our neighbors in their desperate time of need is absurd and appalling.”
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.” (Dr. Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Hussain Almashhadi, World Health Organization)
It’s been said that volunteers aren’t paid because they’re worthless but because they’re priceless! And you’re not only priceless—you are also essential. Good causes can advance without money, but they can’t advance without volunteers!
Thank you for picking up the phone, pounding the pavement and knocking on those doors, putting pens to those cards, making those calls, stuffing those bags, collecting those funds, throwing those parties, organizing those events, attending those unending meetings, and doing all the other unacknowledged and thankless actions you take to make our voices heard and our votes count in Charlotte County.
