Strange, along with Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon, Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft, Dr. Richard Powers, Director of the Alabama Department of mental health and Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack targeted members of the media of the "war room" at Meyer Real Estate on Monday at Strange 1 s letter and their future plan of action to discuss. Foreign and local officials continue to express serious concern for Gulf Coast residents and businesses who are struggling to survive the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the very difficult claim process.
"It is probably still smoking in his hands," said Strange of the two-page letter. ' It is not a Christmas card type letter, it is a serious assessment of the shortcomings of the process that we are experienced in Alabama.
Strange said that what drove him to write the letter statistics which were given to him last week during the meeting with the officials of law enforcement Baldwin County.
"You know, we're talking about the environmental impact of the spill and economic damage. But there is a third component that really surprised me what I heard about it. Domestic violence is doubled, drug use and production of illicit drugs is up, subsidised meals for our children at school are up. I would like to thank Mr Feinberg to understand that it is not companies and anonymous people, it is man pain because of this oil spill and it is essential that he take action now and the people of Alabama pay what he should. "
In his letter, Strange said he wrote had guaranteed by the Department of mental health that "the worst is yet to come, and that today 1 s stress and frustration will long-term physical problems as the problems with the GCCF are not diminished.
Strange noted that the GCCF pride in his recent announcement that has managed to process 54% of the balance payment (140,338 from 256,319), and he stressed some of the major concerns that he and local officials in response to the report have appeared. This includes how the GCCF fails of its reports the number of plaintiffs is denied by the Emergency advanced payment, which of the claims paid, almost all the option quick-pay no processing by the GCCF, and that requires while Feinberg remains concerns about fraud and lack of documentation, only 14.6% of the processed claims were reported that further documentation required.
"It is unacceptable for the GCCF and Mr. Feinberg continue working in this way," said Strange. "A multimillion dollar PR campaign is used to distort the truth, namely that people in Alabama pain and struggling to survive a situation that they had no control and that was caused by BP and others."
Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack called the crisis "the tragedy that keeps on giving."
"We are used to hurricanes in Baldwin County. If we have a hurricane in April of last year, we would have already cleaned up, rebuilt and are back in another year, "said Mack. "While the oil well can be capped, and a majority of the oil can be cleaned, we are still dealing with this."
Mack said his biggest concern was that we don't yet know that the community can impact the oil disaster in the future will have.
"As Attorney-General, Strange, we have a drastic increase in domestic violence, we have an increase in drug use, particularly in methamphetamine use, and these drugs have a direct impact, not only on our adult community, but even in our teens and children. We are very concerned from a law enforcement. "
After the press conference on Monday, strange, which has been named the Coordinating Council for all of the Gulf States, went to New Orleans for a legal hearing in the BP oil spill case.
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