PEOPLE GET FOUND OUT – AT 5:29 P.M. ET:   Remember the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and how she behaved after a severe hurricane hit the island?  She was all over TV, denouncing President Trump and suggesting that genocide was occurring.

The liberal press made her into a heroine.  Her people have apparently decided that she ain't.  From Fox: 

The mayor of Puerto Rico’s largest city became an international star when she donned a T-shirt and baseball cap and begged for help after Hurricane Maria left San Juan in shambles. And she became a darling of the left when she took aim at President Trump for not doing enough to help her people.

Six months later, constituents of Carmen Yulin Cruz are still struggling for food, shelter and power, and many have turned on the leader who they say turned her global close-up into a never-ending parade of self-promotion.

“If we don’t get food and water into people’s hands, what we are going to see is something close to a genocide,” Cruz told an international audience after Hurricane Maria roared onto the island in September knocking out power and leveling entire neighborhoods in its path.

Her subsequent feud with Trump over recovery efforts turned her into a liberal star. She’s been on numerous national television shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and scored a high-profile invite to the State of the Union as the guest of New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

After the speech, Cruz characterized the president’s pledges of support to Puerto Rico as “hypocrisy.”

But while Cruz’s pitch-perfect soundbites make for good tv, there’s a growing frustration among her constituents who feel forgotten and say Cruz’s personal political ambitions are coming at the expense of the very people she’s supposed to be representing.

She hired extra photographers to follow her around post-storm and is even scheduled to make multiple appearances in Holyoke, Mass., next month.

COMMENT:  She appeared to be a self-promoter right from the start.  Maybe some reporters should have begun their coverage of her act by asking her why San Juan was so unprepared for the storm.  But that would have been an attack on a woman and a minority, a twofer, and that is not allowed. 

March 1, 2018