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reply posted on 4-9-2005 @ 09:26 PM by Muaddib
Originally posted by Nerdling
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His public biography is listed on the FEMA site here and prior to his high level FEMA appointment it lists no significant job experience before the appointment to his post.
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Well, thanks to the member redhat we know that the above is not true.

Background
Brown holds a B.A. in Public Administration/Political Science from Central State University. He received his J.D. from Oklahoma City University's School of Law. While attending law school Brown was appointed by the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee of the Oklahoma Legislature as the Finance Committee Staff Director, where he oversaw state fiscal issues.

During the 1980s he lived in Enid and practiced law there. He also taught at OCU law school as an adjunct.

In the 1970s he served as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight in Edmund, Oklahoma, and as a city councilman, although most of his career was spent in private practice. He ran for Congress in 1988 and lost decisively to Democratic incumbent Glenn English.


Then we can continue reading the following.

After President Bush entered office in January 2001, Brown joined FEMA as Deputy Director and the agency's General Counsel. He was an old friend and former college roommate[6] of Joe Allbaugh,


If you continue reading the information wikipedia provides, you will find more useful information as to why he was asked to resign.

Before joining DHS/FEMA, Brown was Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association from 1999-2001, a position from which he resigned under duress after an onslaught of lawsuits over suspensions he dished out to those accused of cheating at horse shows.


So it seems he did have former experience on the job he performed. He did not just take over the job from scratch.

However there were other allegations which even include the following.
In a September 3, 2005 editorial, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called Brown a "blithering idiot" for not being aware that 15,000 hurricane victims were stranded in the New Orleans Convention Center, after this had been widely reported.

On September 4, 2005, the New Orleans Times-Picayune called for Brown to be fired in an open letter to the President, citing his "bald-faced" lies about food provided to refugees. They expressed incredulity that Bush told Brown, "You're doing a heck of a job."


Now are those accussations real, or are they just more political propaganda used by some people?

We all know by now that several helicopters that were sent with provisions and to take people out were shot at by criminals who continue to take advantage of the situation. We can safely assume by this that not everyone got food, water or the provisions needed.

Now, if it is true and it was possible for help to have arrived earlier, despite what the criminals were doing, then this matter should be persued. But I get tired of people trying to use such a disaster to further their own political propaganda.

This is a time for all the people in the US to stand together instead of concentrating on bickering and whinning that their political side would have done things better and faster....

There will be more than enough time later on, after all the people that need help are safe and sound, to find wether or not these charges are true and whether or not Brown and the Mayors should be fired from their jobs for not doing the job faster.




[edit on 4-9-2005 by Muaddib]


reply posted on 8-9-2005 @ 11:16 AM by Nerdling
Originally posted by rancid1
Hey Nerdling you can see why he was tossed from the IAHA. At this url.

His "supervisors" were giving cosmetic surgery to horses.


You can give cosmetic surgery to horses?!

Ohh Naomi! Look at me, my haunches are so fat! *mopes*
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