{"id":6134,"date":"2017-09-10T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2017-09-10T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:19:38","slug":"miamis-republican-mayor-just-issued-bold-message-trump-hurricane-irma-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/10\/miamis-republican-mayor-just-issued-bold-message-trump-hurricane-irma-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s Republican Mayor Just Issued A Bold Message To Trump As Hurricane Irma Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-16.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-16.jpg 3000w, http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-16-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-16-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-16-600x300.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/div>\n<article id=\"post-59765\" class=\"post post-detail post-59765 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-politics\" data-id=\"59765\" data-url=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/2017\/09\/10\/miamis-republican-mayor-just-issued-bold-message-trump-hurricane-irma-strikes\/\">\n<div class=\"post-head-container\">\n<aside class=\"post-meta cf\"><\/aside>\n<header class=\"post-title entry-header\">BY\u00a0<span class=\"author-name vcard fn author\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a title=\"Posts by Brian Tyler Cohen\" href=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\/author\/bricohen12\/\" rel=\"author\">BRIAN TYLER COHEN<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-twitter fa-2\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/header>\n<aside class=\"post-author\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-info-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-info-out right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-info-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-author\" class=\"left relative\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-post-date\" class=\"left relative\"><span class=\"post-date updated\"><time class=\"post-date updated\" datetime=\"2017-09-10\">SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 (OccupyDemocrats.com)<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content-container\">\n<div class=\"post-content entry-content cf\">\n<p>As Hurricane Irma bears down on the Florida coast and threatens unprecedented devastation, Miami Mayor Tom\u00e1s Regalado issued a stern message to the President.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThis is the time to talk about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane\/article172080587.html\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;talk about climate change&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:8,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane\/article172080587.html&quot;}}\" data-beacon-parsed=\"true\">climate change<\/a>,\u201d Regalado said. \u201cThis is the time that the president and the EPA and whoever makes decisions needs to talk about climate change. This is a truly, truly poster child for what is to come.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regalado\u2019s remarks come on the heels of both tacit and outright denials of the existence of climate change by Trump. From pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/265895292191248385?lang=en\">declaring<\/a>\u00a0that the phenomenon was \u201ccreated by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,\u201d the President has shown an alarming unwillingness to accept the science behind climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf this isn\u2019t climate change,\u201d he said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to be political, but the fact of the matter is that this is a lesson that we need protection from nature. So, I think this is a lesson for the people to say you know what? We have to be prepared,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regalado\u2019s comments come amid unprecedented and unrelenting storm surges in the Atlantic. Only days after Hurricane Harvey decimated Texas \u2013 in what FEMA Director William \u201cBrock\u201d Long has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/fema-director-says-harvey-is-probably-the-worst-disaster-in-texas-history\/2017\/08\/27\/ef01600a-8b3f-11e7-8df5-c2e5cf46c1e2_story.html?utm_term=.b1f6ae11f654\">called<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cworst disaster in Texas history\u201d \u2013 Hurricane Irma prompted calls for the evacuation of over 6.3 million Floridians, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/miami-mayor-climate-change-hurricane-irma_us_59b417dee4b0b5e5310683ae?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&amp;ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&amp;section=politics&amp;section=politics\">largest<\/a>\u00a0evacuation in American history. Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia has made landfall in Mexico and Hurricane Jose, another Category 4 storm, is fast approaching the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>Whether these misguided politicians truly deny the science behind climate change or are simply shilling for the fossil fuel companies who finance their campaigns, their selfish actions are putting millions of Americans\u2019 lives at risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0BRIAN TYLER COHEN\u00a0\u00a0 SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 (OccupyDemocrats.com) As Hurricane Irma bears down on the Florida coast and threatens unprecedented devastation, Miami Mayor Tom\u00e1s Regalado issued a stern message to the President. \u201cThis is the time to talk about\u00a0climate change,\u201d Regalado said. \u201cThis is the time that the president and the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/10\/miamis-republican-mayor-just-issued-bold-message-trump-hurricane-irma-strikes\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}