Alabama senator's power play kept coronavirus cruise ship evacuees in San Antonio
Last weekend, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff was confident that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would transfer some passengers from the coronavirus-infected Diamond Princess cruise ship out of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to federal facilities in Anniston, Ala.
He’d reached an understanding with the agency after swapping emails with one of its top officials. Darcie Johnson, the HHS director of intergovernmental affairs, thanked Wolff for “the partnership and your patience while we worked through these logistics” and added, “This should help lesson (sic) the burden on San Antonio.”
That was Saturday. But the deal crumbled overnight like a stale cookie.
Alabama’s six-term Republican senator, Richard Shelby, boasted on Twitter the next day he had scotched efforts to bring some of the cruise ship passengers to his state.
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