The sheriff's office in Rutherford County, NC, announced Monday that they'd arrested a man and charged him with allegedly threatening to harm Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers in the area. William Parsons, 44, of Bostic, NC, was charged with "going armed to the terror of the public," according to a statement from the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office provided to ABC News. The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office statement said deputies on Saturday investigated reports in the vicinity of Lake Lure and Chimney Rock that a "white male had an assault rifle and made the comment about possibly harming FEMA employees" working in the area.
I think so, but they went mainsteam under Obama. The Katrina clean up efforts were still going on well into 2010, well after midterms.
Early FEMA conspiracies were mostly circulated among sovereign citizen types. By Obama, they were being shared by Fox News and Breitbart.