McCain Mentions Communications

During Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday formally announcing his candidacy for president, he briefly mentioned public safety communications. “We must also prepare, far better than we have, to respond quickly and effectively to another terrorist attack or natural calamity. When Americans confront a catastrophe, natural or man-made, they have a right to expect basic competence from their government. They won’t accept that firemen and policemen are unable to communicate with each other in an emergency because they don’t have the same radio frequency. They won’t accept government’s failure to deliver bottled water to dehydrated babies or rescue the infirm from a hospital with no electricity. They won’t accept substandard care and indifference for wounded veterans. That’s not good enough for America. And when I’m President, it won’t be good enough for me.”