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(157,336 posts) Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:22 PM Monday

Kerrville city manager referred to Kristi Noem as 'basically homeland Barbie' after flooding media briefing, texts show

Source: KSAT-TV San Antonio, TX

Published: July 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Updated: July 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM

KERRVILLE, Texas – Kerrville leaders were largely caught off guard by the deadly July 4 floods in the Hill Country, text message and email records released this weekend by the city show.

The hundreds of pages of records, provided to KSAT Investigates following a series of public records requests, include a text thread from Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice in which he referred to U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem as “basically homeland Barbie.”

The text was sent July 5, hours after Rice and Noem had taken part in a press conference in Kerrville regarding the then-ongoing search and rescue efforts in the region. Rice did not respond to an email seeking comment Sunday, a day after city officials released records showing his communications from July 3-5.

At least 137 people died statewide, 108 of them in Kerr County, during the historic flooding event earlier this month.

Read more: https://www.ksat.com/news/ksat-investigates/2025/07/28/kerrville-city-manager-referred-kristi-noem-as-basically-homeland-barbie-after-flooding-press-conference-texts-show/

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Kerrville city manager referred to Kristi Noem as 'basically homeland Barbie' after flooding media briefing, texts show (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP

But isn't Barbie Cute and Kind and a decent lil Doll BOSSHOG Monday #1

Yeah, this is an insult to Barbie. soldierant Monday #10

This warms my shriveled heart. Jirel Monday #2

I don't read anything into it. LeftInTX Monday #9

I think it's funny that he was stupid enough to do it and got caught. hamsterjill Monday #12

Wow, that's a very conservative area that went big for Trump. tanyev Monday #3

What a surprise! When an airhead, bimbos incompetence hurts you personally, THEN you see the light. FadedMullet Monday #4

I prefer hildegaard28 Monday #5

Cry me a river, trumpers who didn't want government. ananda Monday #6

wow Mr. Pot...good call!!! ret5hd Monday #7

Hee-hee, but the level of incompetence is astounding! LeftInTX Monday #8

_ LudwigPastorius Monday #11

'Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's carefully crafted image as a tough woman has taken a hit' riversedge Tuesday #13

Tough persona...what is tough about shooting defenseless animals and people? travelingthrulife Tuesday #14

BOSSHOG

(43,446 posts)

1. But isn't Barbie Cute and Kind and a decent lil Doll

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:33 PM

Monday

And BLOND?

soldierant

(8,774 posts)

10. Yeah, this is an insult to Barbie.

Reply to BOSSHOG (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:39 PM

Monday

And, yes, mostly she's blond, but I have collected a few brunettes including a Latina and an Asian Barbie -and a several black Barbie s. I make them into collector dolls - which takes a long time - but I have a Kamala Harris doll and a Nancy Pelosi doll and am working an RBG doll and a Michelle Obama doll (I don't even have all the supplies for that one - I'm aiming for first inaugural gown) and am still in the early planning stages for a KBJ - but all I need for RBG is the robe now - and I just need to make two of them.

Then they just came out with a Type 1 diabetic Barbie - and she has dark brown hair. Otherwise, she looks like every other Barbie except for the medical equipment. She may have a different name - I know the one in a wheelchair they called "Becky" (and I also have her) - but they are all made the same way so they're all Barbies to most of us.

Jirel

(2,355 posts)

2. This warms my shriveled heart.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:37 PM

Monday

I’m from the area. The guy calling her Homeland Barbie is scum supreme, make no mistake. But I love the circular firing squad this will create.

LeftInTX

(32,856 posts)

9. I don't read anything into it.

Reply to Jirel (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:54 PM

Monday

hamsterjill

(16,153 posts)

12. I think it's funny that he was stupid enough to do it and got caught.

Reply to Jirel (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 11:26 PM

Monday

I'm just outside SA. It was all over the news this afternoon.

tanyev

(47,287 posts)

3. Wow, that's a very conservative area that went big for Trump.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:07 PM

Monday

It’s unlikely that Rice is a secret liberal.

FadedMullet

(362 posts)

4. What a surprise! When an airhead, bimbos incompetence hurts you personally, THEN you see the light.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:23 PM

Monday

hildegaard28

(610 posts)

5. I prefer

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:53 PM

Monday

To call her Cruella de Noem. She has more in common with Cruella De Ville.

ananda

(32,659 posts)

6. Cry me a river, trumpers who didn't want government.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:00 PM

Monday

You FAFO'd.

ret5hd

(21,646 posts)

7. wow Mr. Pot...good call!!!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:29 PM

Monday

yes, Ms. Kettle is black.

LeftInTX

(32,856 posts)

8. Hee-hee, but the level of incompetence is astounding!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 07:47 PM

Monday

On July 3rd the Mo Ranch (one of the very few establishments that prepared for anything)was prepping for bad weather. The Mo Ranch has a long history of connecting with the Hunt elementary school during bad weather.

Kerrville was like Jaws, except it was "The bike parade" instead of the beach.

Emails received by Kerrville Emergency Management Coordinator Jerremy Hughes show that the city’s fire department waited until 8:55 a.m. on July 4 to tell all off-duty personnel to report to their respective stations.

This is totally, unacceptable!!!, Totally unacceptable.... Kerr County received a call from Hunt's VFD around 5 am!!! Kerrville flooded at 6 am. This video was taken around 6:30 am, about 10 miles downstream from Kerrville. By 8:55 the river had significantly receded.

&ab_channel=WAAY31News

LudwigPastorius

(13,037 posts)

11. _

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Mon Jul 28, 2025, 10:01 PM

Monday

riversedge

(76,811 posts)

13. 'Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's carefully crafted image as a tough woman has taken a hit'

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 04:58 AM

Tuesday

Kristi Noem Derided as ‘Homeland Barbie’ by Texas Official After Deadly Flood
PLASTIC-WRAPPED
Newly released texts show Kerrville’s City Manager mocking the Homeland Security chief.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-derided-as-homeland-barbie-by-texas-official-after-deadly-flood/

Tom Latchem

Reporter
Updated Jul. 28 2025 6:27PM EDT
Published Jul. 28 2025 2:42PM EDT

KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 11: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a round table event with President Donald Trump at the Hill Country Youth Event Center to discuss last week's flash flooding on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Trump traveled to Texas one week after flash flooding along the Guadalupe River swept through cities, mobile home parks and summer camps, killing 120 people. Ninety-six of those killed were in Kerr County, where the toll includes at least 36 children. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s carefully crafted image as a tough woman has taken a hit.

In the aftermath of deadly flooding in Texas over the July 4 holiday that claimed 137 lives, Noem faced criticism from Ken Pagurek, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) urban search-and-rescue division, who quit

travelingthrulife

(2,946 posts)

14. Tough persona...what is tough about shooting defenseless animals and people?