...the fertilizer plant explosion?  

The fertilizer plant is a private company which may have violated several laws leading to the disastrous results.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/west-fertilizer-company_n_3121110.html

Of course, conservatives will say that the explosion was caused by too many laws - an alphabet soup of regulators: OSHA, EPA, DHS as well as Texas state regulators.  Their answer is FEWER regulations.  Yeah, fewer regulations would make greedy corporations not cut corners.  Sure.

The same conservatives who held their breath 'til they turned blue when it came to bailing out the auto companies are holding out their hands begging like little bitches, led by chief Teabagger Ted Cruz, not in Senate at auto bailout time, but who voted AGAINST Hurricane Sandy relief:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/ted-cruz-bill-flores-aid_n_3117356.html

Wasn't it just last year that Rick Perry was talking about Texas SECEDING from the Union?  Now he may be taking affirmative steps toward secession by having Texas hoard gold:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/22/texas-takes-step-toward-secession-with-rick-perrys-plan-to-hoard-gold/

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/texas-may-start-hoarding-gold-secession-next-192407075.html

So Texas wants smaller government or even not to be part of the federal government, except when they want the federal government to pay for a disaster caused by a private company in their state.  Fuck those shit-kicking clodhopper hypocrites!!

resources, the governor declares the site a disaster area, and the disaster otherwise qualifies for FEMA assistance.

        None of the matters you listed have anything to do with FEMA assistance - you either qualify or you don't and we don't look to whether a private company caused the disaster, whether fault was involved, or whether the state is states-rights oriented.  

       Now whether Congress should aid a supplemental aid package when the state is not overwhelmed is another matter. This apparently is what Mr. Flores has in mind but this is not "hypocrisy" but "election planning." That's what Congressmen do - try to get fed aid for their districts.

Remember that "bridge to nowhere?" Don't confuse hypocrisy with good old fashion pork

Regarding Cruz's reasons for voting against Sandy Hook relief; I think those who wrote that legislation gave him plenty of cover for doing so. That's the problem when bills designed to do one thing, get amended such that other agendas get added to it. Too often, especially in the last several years, bills get written up, then poison pills are added to make certain they are never passed. It looks good for the side presenting it, and makes the other side look bad for voting against it, yet the first side never had much of any desire for it to pass in the first place.

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You say 100.000 signed the petition, and yet the state has a population of approximately 26 million. I think you are overstating the case.

...shocked to find hyperbole on P&R!

however I've seen no evidence much effort, by him, to push that agenda.