Drowning Constituents to Own the Libs.

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz is about as horrible as they come.

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Hurricane Ian is going down in the history books as the deadliest hurricane to hit Florida in decades. Looking at the images coming out of Fort Meyers and the surrounding area in particular has been particularly difficult, with entire communities completely leveled and so many people having to rebuild their lives entirely.

But of course, in the midst of all of this we can count on Florida’s own lawmakers — particularly Matt Gaetz — to remind us how disturbingly callous they really are, and I stumbled across an article that highlighted Gaetz and his recent antics.

Cheryl Teh with Business Insider writes:

“Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling for the US to send aid to Floridians in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian — but he also voted “no” to a bill that carved out cash for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to do just that…

…In response to Insider’s request for comment, a Gaetz representative directed Insider toward Episode 73 of Gaetz’s “Firebrand” podcast — in particular a segment where Gaetz weighed in one what the Gaetz representative called bad policy and bad legislating. In the podcast, the congressman accused Pelosi of trying “to dictate budget…