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This is a deliberately deceptive mischaracterization. The funds raised were never intended to be in the form of direct checks written out to fire victims or 100% for rebuilding support. The nonprofits used it for emergency housing and rent assistance, for food security, childcare, for trauma counseling and mental health services, for helping displaced workers, foster children, for helping small business recovery, for animal welfare, for environmental remediation and so on. And they were completely up front about that. Money was never diverted or misappropriated. And with a disaster of that scale $100m is just a drop in the bucket. To go stomping around gesturing at the burnt remains a few months later expecting that everything would have been solved overnight and that $100m was more than enough is absolutely clueless. |