During a press conference today, Texas Governor Rick Perry was accused of impsing a media blackout on some of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ike on the Gulf Coast of Texas–specifically Galveston’s West End and Bolivar. (VIDEO HERE)
At today’s briefling, Houston TV reporter Wayne Dolcefino posed some hard questions to Perry, who dodged many, offered some Nixonian answers on death tolls, and blamed city, county, and federal officials for lack of access to the areas in question.
When asked by Dolcefino about the death toll in Bolivar, Perry gave a somewhat odd answer:
I don’t think there has been any fatalities confirmed. And, I think that’s a very important issue until next of kin has been notified of, if there has been fatalities, that is appropriate. I don’t think you or your firends in the media would want to go out on a limb before that, would you?
When Dolcefino pressed Perry on fatalities, Perry denied knowing of fatalities in Bolivar. “There have been none confirmed, to me,” Perry said.
Dolcefino went on to compare the media’s lack of access to the situation in Myanmar, where the media was denied access to many areas hit hard by disaster there.
In addition, some sources tell Capitol Annex that local government leaders and some legislators have already begun to criticize both the state response and FEMA’s response to Ike, although none of that has been covered by the media yet.
Capitol Annex is continuing to follow this story and will bring you updates as we know more.
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