HUD Secretary Ben Carson gets stuck in elevator during public housing tour

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Anyone who closely followed the 2016 presidential campaign likely has a favorite Ben Carson moment. There was the time he walked away from a live CNN interview because he realized he didn’t know where his luggage was. There was the time he neglected to walk onstage during his turn at the ABC debate, causing a grinning Senator Ted Cruz to walk around him. And now, the newly minted Secretary of Housing and Urban Development has just inked another comically awkward moment into the history books.

While touring affordable housing in Miami with former Heat star Alonzo Mourning, Carson got stuck in an elevator for nearly 20 minutes as the NBA legend waited outside.

Carson is in Miami as part of a national listening tour, during which he hopes to hear from people who rely on public housing and from organizations that support it. This comes less than a month after The Washington Post obtained a budget outline, which appears to show President Trump’s plan to slash HUD’s funding by more than $6 billion.

Ironically, if that occurs, the budget cuts will severely impact HUD’s maintenance funds (i.e. their ability to execute much needed repair work on public housing facilities, like the elevator Carson just got stuck in).

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hud-sec-ben-carson-gets-stuck-in-elevator-during-public-housing-tour/

[Warpy]

1. He probably grumbled that nobody fixed it fast enough

when the residents have put up with it for years. Why can't all those lazy people get out and fix the damn thing and rescue him? You know, like they've all got the tools and expertise.

Bet he thinks those old folks on the upper floors should just get their exercise lugging groceries up and garbage down six or seven floors.

Oh, wait, there's our problem, "he thinks." He doesn't.

He just goes to places to have his picture taken. That's his only job.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Not as bad as when he was stuck on an

escalator and has to be rescued by the FD! 😏

[IronLionZion]

3. Is he going to fix it with budget cuts?

Budget cuts are the solution to every problem for a Republican

[NYC Democrat]

4. He probably just used it as an excuse to take a nap.

[rurallib]

5. Will Trump send in missiles?

How else will they learn a lesson?

[Sunlei]

6. want to see Ben Carson "touring affordable housing" across America & fixing all broken elevators

not brain surgery to improve 'affordable housing' is it Ben?

[Ilsa]

7. If only we could trap 45 in an elevator for four years. NT

[machoneman]

18. Good one!

Actually, he was too stupid to understand one has to push the buttons to make it go!

[Yavin4]

8. Why? Why?! Oh Whyyyyyyy?!!!

...did they fix it and let him out. The perfect opportunity to leave him forever and walk away.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Just like 45 got stuck during the campaign!

This theme should follow these clowns around forever.

[jodymarie aimee]

10. Jesus God

I live in a HUD bldg. for disabled....

[Freethinker65]

11. Let us pray

[redwitch]

12. Ben Carson is stuck on stupid. Just like the rest of this bunch.

And yeah, they should have left him in there a bit longer.

[Doreen]

13. Should have lit a fire under the elevator and made

him haul his ass out just like he thinks the poor people should have to do when the maintenance disappears. I think it is hilarious that that happened to him. He knows first hand what happens when the money for maintenance is taken away. Then again he will probably just put people out in the streets and say damn them all.

[angrychair]

14. Two things

First, why was Alonzo Mourning giving this asshole (and by extension, republican45) a photo opportunity?
Fuck Ben 'I will cut you fool' Carson! Why lend your name to this know-nothing waste of space (like the space wasted in the grain silos shaped like pyramids)...I look on anyone cooperating or associating with anyone on this administration as being collaborators with fascists and Neo-Nazis.

Second, how do we know these idiots just didn't know how to work an elevator?

[TNNurse]

15. When I saw the headline, my first thought

was that he was alone and could not figure out how to make the elevator go.

[flying rabbit]

16. ...

[truthisfreedom]

17. I'm surprised he managed to get in. Remember when he was called on stage and waited in the wings?

How did he know to get in? Did someone push him?