Romney Adviser Admits FEMA Doing A Good Job Post-Sandy

Lakhota · 2012-11-04T22:50:42+00:00

By Amanda Terkel WASHINGTON -- Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, admitted on Sunday that the Obama administration is effectively responding to Hurricane Sandy, despite a torrent of criticisms from conservatives over the effort and Romney's own desire to change the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency operates. In the past week, conservatives have begun piling on President Barack Obama for his response to the superstorm, attempting to argue that he has fallen short and should not be out campaigning in the final days before the election. Perhaps the most pointed attack has come from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said President Barack Obama should "resign" for the failures of his presidency, including the Sandy response. "I don't know what the heck he was doing in Nevada while people were still being discovered dead in New York," said Giuliani on CNN on Friday. "If I were the president of the United States, I sure wouldn't be flitting around the Midwest and the West. I feel pretty darn offended seeing my president floating around campaigning while people are suffering." But in an interview on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, when host George Stephanopoulos asked whether Romney had "any quarrel with the way President Obama has handled the hurricane," Gillespie said he did not. "Well, from what we've heard from the governors, they're working well with FEMA," he said. "There's a good working relationship between the state and the federal government." More: Ed Gillespie, Romney Adviser, Admits Obama's FEMA Doing A Good Job Responding To Sandy (VIDEO)