BY Dan Friedman 
 
 New York and New Jersey lawmakers said they will turn the other cheek and support aid for tornado recovery in Oklahoma, whose lawmakers want federal emergency aid for tornado relief even though all but tow opposed aid for Hurricane Sandy. 
 
 Those pledges came after conservative Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe’s said Tuesday that he voted against aid for Sandy victims but wants it for his state because the two situations are “totally different.” 
 
 Inhofe said Hurricane Sandy bill was loaded with pork. 
 
 “They had things in the Virgin Islands,” Inhofe said on MSNBC. “They were fixing roads there, they were putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C. Everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won’t happen in Oklahoma. 
 
 Inhofe got his facts partly wrong. The Sandy relief bill initially contained money for projects outside of areas damaged by Sandy, with the hope of attracting enough votes to get it through Congress. 
 
 That spending represented a small portion of the massive bill - and much of it eventually was dropped from the legislation after objections by Republicans in the House. 
 
 The Sandy relief legislation did not contain money to put roofs on homes in Washington, but there were funds to repair museum roofs damaged by the hurricane. 
 
 Oklahoma’s other senator, Tom Coburn, a Republican, wants any federal aid for victims of Monday’s tornado to be offset by cuts elsewhere in the federal budget, his spokesman said Tuesday. 
 
 Democrats, who oppose offsets emergency disaster aid, said Coburn will have to vote against help for his own constituents if he wants to stick to his position. 
 
 "I am gonna go with no offsets," said Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)who said lawmakers are starting to assess how much aid Oklahoma will need. 
 
 "Sen Coburn is consistent in his views and he is consistently wrong,” Mikulski said. 
 
 Both of Oklahoma’s senators and three of its five House members voted against the $60.2 billion aid package for Sandy victims. 
 
 Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), whose district includes the tornado-shattered town of Moore, Okla., voted for the Sandy package. 
 
 Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) who helped move Sandy aid through the House, declined to address Inhofe’s statements but said that he would never deny the state aid because of its elected officials’ opposition to the Sandy aid. 
 
 “I don’t want the people of Oklahoma to suffer for something politicians have done,” King said. “I’ve been through this. I will support them 100 percent.” 
 
 -With Joseph Straw 
 
 dfriedman@nydailynews.com 
 
 @dfriedman33 ||||| New York Rep. Peter King on Tuesday said he’s willing to overlook the “hypocrisy” of lawmakers who opposed aid for his state in the wake of Superstorm Sandy but might support funding for tornado-stricken Oklahoma. 
 
 “I think there’s a lot of hypocrisy involved here, [Sen. James] Inhofe saying Sandy aid was corrupt but Oklahoma won’t be,” King (R-N.Y.) told POLITICO. “But I don’t want to hold the people of Oklahoma responsible for what elected officials are saying, for the husband and wife without a home, for the people who lost all their worldly possessions.” 
 
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 King, who stressed that he wasn’t looking for a fight, emphasized that aid should be provided to Oklahoma — which sustained a deadly tornado on Monday — without the requirement of budgetary offsets. 
 
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 “I’ve always believed that but certainly, going through it myself [during Sandy], seeing the devastation a national disaster brings to a district…it’s a [national issue], not a local issue, like Sandy wasn’t a New York, New Jersey issue,” he said. “It’s an American issue, we have an obligation to come forward.” 
 
 Inhofe (R-Okla.), for his part, said on MSNBC on Tuesday that he had wanted reduced Sandy aid because “everyone was getting in and exploiting the tragedy taking place” by adding funding for unrelated projects to the measure, but said “that won’t happen in Oklahoma.” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) indicated early on Tuesday that he would support offsets for Oklahoma aid. 
 
 King was a vocal critic of those in his own party who didn’t back full Sandy funding. 
 
 “I won’t hold it against anyone,” King said of lawmakers who opposed Sandy aid but could support Oklahoma help without offsets. “I don’t want suffering people in Oklahoma to be held hostage while we engage in political fights, saying ‘I told you so.’ I want to deal with it on the merits.”
– You knew this was coming: Peter King, who fought hard for Superstorm Sandy aid for his home state of New York, thinks there's "a lot of hypocrisy" when it comes to lawmakers who opposed Sandy aid but are in favor of tornado aid. The subject of his attention most specifically seems to be Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe. King's take is that Inhofe essentially said "Sandy aid was corrupt but Oklahoma won't be" yesterday on MSNBC. King is peeved, but tells Politico he'll overlook the perceived dig because "I don't want suffering people in Oklahoma to be held hostage while we engage in political fights, saying 'I told you so.'" As for Inhofe's statement, the New York Daily News reports that he "got his facts partly wrong" when he said that "everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place" post-Sandy by slipping pet projects (like "putting roofs on houses in Washington, DC") into the bill. Though the initial Sandy relief bill did include money for areas that were not damaged by the storm, that was just a small portion of the bill and much of that was ultimately dropped. As for Oklahoma's other senator, King thinks aid should be given to Oklahoma without requiring offsets, as Tom Coburn called for.