Previous "disaster-management" experience consisted of mainly cleaning-up Dumbo's coke-spills...
How many babies did DUMBO and his incompetant clowns MURDER after KATRINA?
"Former Edmond city manager Bill Dashner recalled for Time that Brown had worked for him as an administrative assistant while attending Central State University.
"Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt," Dashner told Time.
Edmond's population is about 70,000"
There was even an episode where Brown heroically supervised the EDMOND FD rescue of a kitty up a tree!
for the victims that were MURDERED by the gross negligance & WILLFULL incompetance of DUMBO'S "team"
"One medical assessment team — veterans of 31 disasters — can treat hundreds of patients a day, but for 11 days, it’s been repeatedly redirected by FEMA from Alabama to Biloxi to Dallas to Galveston. So far, they’ve treated one small cut.
“We joined the team to help people who need it and we are not helping anybody,” says a frustrated Tim Ward, logistics officer and EMT with Georgia-3 Disaster Medical Assistance Team.
Thursday, FEMA told them to pack up again and move to Houston.
For nine days a mobile communications unit has been sitting in Germany with a chartered plane standing by, ready to provide desperately needed equipment for first responders. Company officials complain they’ve placed hundreds of calls and can still get no answer from FEMA. “This is the most frustrating exercise in futility I’ve had in my entire professional life,” says satellite services provider Uri Bar-Zemer.
Last Friday, Mississippi asked FEMA for 20,000 trailers for temporary housing. On Monday, when nothing had happened, Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi asked President Bush to intervene personally. The next day he was told that 400 trailers were on the way.
“Just put it anywhere,” Lott said Tuesday, “Just get them there. We’ll put them in the right place!”
Thursday, NBC News found hundreds of trailers still sitting in a facility in Georgia.
“I believe that this response has been chaotic, indecisive and has caused the loss of lives that was unnecessary and unacceptable,” says Bullock."
posted on September 9, 2005 07:39:05 AM
mur·der Pronunciation Key (műrdr)
n.
1. The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.
2. Slang. Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous: The rush hour traffic is murder.
3. A flock of crows. See Synonyms at flock1.
v. mur·dered, mur·der·ing, mur·ders
v. tr.
1. To kill (another human) unlawfully.
2. To kill brutally or inhumanly.
3. To put an end to; destroy: murdered their chances.
4. To spoil by ineptness; mutilate: a speech that murdered the English language.
5. Slang. To defeat decisively; trounce.
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posted on September 9, 2005 08:10:52 AMHACKS + HACKS + HACKS:
Two Bush 2000 Florida recount aides were rewarded with top FEMA posts
Reversing an eight-year crusade to rid the now-embattled Federal Emegency Management Agency of political patronage, a newly elected George W. Bush in 2001 named two key players in his Florida recount fight to important FEMA posts.
Neither man, Jacksonville attorney Reynold Hoover (pictured at left) and Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, had any experience in emergency management before they were named by the Bush administration to FEMA, now under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hoover, a longtime "explosives expert" with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who became a lawyer in 1996, is still with FEMA as its director of national security coordination. Wallace left the Bush administration in 2004 to become deputy manager of the president's re-election campaign, and is now a lobbyist.
They are two more names to add to the list of political appointees and out-and-out hacks at FEMA. Many are calling for the firing of agency chief Michael Brown, the ousted head of a horse association who was hired at FEMA in 2001 along with his college roommate, top Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh. And it was reported yesterday that FEMA's No. 2 and No. 3 officials, Patrick Rhode and Scott Morris, are also former campaign aides.
Consider this quote:
"FEMA is widely viewed as a 'dumping ground,' a turkey farm, if you will, where large numbers of positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political appointment," the preliminary report said. "This has led to a situation where top officials, having little or no experience in disaster or emergency management, are creating substantial morale problems among careerists and professionals. "
Appropriate in the wake of the agency's bungled efforts over the last 10 days in Louisiana and Mississippi? Yes -- but the above quote is from 1992, during the administration of George H.W. Bush. It came from a preliminary report from the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, and it was written before FEMA came under fire that year for a tardy response to Florida's Hurricane Andrew. (Note: Any article not linked came from the Nexis search engine.)
The Andrew debacle was one of many factors in the first President Bush's failed re-election bid. They say that good government is good politics, and so when Bill Clinton arrived at the White House in 1993, he made a serious effort to rid FEMA of political hackery.
Clinton hired a professional, James Lee Witt, to run the agency and that May Witt told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, according to a Washington Post article, "that FEMA 'will not be doing business as usual' and that he was committed to making his organization 'one of the most respected agencies in this nation.'
Did he succeed? Here's what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote in a January 1996 editorial:
FEMA has developed a sterling reputation for delivering disaster- relief services, a far cry from its abysmal standing before James Lee Witt took its helm in 1993.
How did Witt turn FEMA around so quickly? Well, he is the first director of the agency to have emergency-management experience. He stopped the staffing of the agency by political patronage. He removed layers of bureaucracy. Most important, he instilled in the agency a spirit of preparedness, of service to the customer, of willingness to listen to ideas of local and state officials to make the system work better.
But if Clinton and Witt stopped the staffing of FEMA by political patronage, George W. Bush re-started it within days of taking the oath of office -- rewarding some of the people who'd helped him become president in the grueling 2000 Florida recount.
One of those was Wallace (pictured at left) -- a young lawyer who, according to a July 14, 2002, article by the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg -- "fought on behalf of the GOP in Palm Beach County during the butterfly ballot brouhaha." He was hired in 2001 as FEMA's general counsel and was the chief lawyer for the agency on its Sept. 11 recovery effort. After his 2004 stint as a top official in the Bush campaign, he was hired in March as a D.C. lobbyist for a Florida-based law firm, Akerman Senterfitt.
Hoover, the former ATF agent turned attorney, was active in the Duval County GOP at the time of the Florida recount, and because a point man in the Jacksonville area. He initially served as FEMA's chief of staff for a time, but he's currently listed on the agency's organizational chart as director of the Office of National Security Coordination.
Of course, we all know that Bush has rewarded a number of people who went to bat for him in Florida in 2000 with plum jobs. One of those is his new UN ambassador John Bolton, who -- as the Herald article reminds us -- "[burst] into a Tallahassee library on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign to stop a recount of Miami-Dade County ballots." Another was recently picked by Bush to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts.
What's more, Wallace and Hoover -- and Brown and Rhodes and Morris -- aren't the only political hires at FEMA. Indeed, the officials tasked with the response to Hurricane Katrina -- Dan Craig, the director of the recovery division -- is another. As his bio notes, "Craig worked as a campaign advisor, and political fundraiser and research analyst" and was also a lobbyist. At the risk of stating the obvious by this point, he did not have emergency management experience.
posted on September 9, 2005 09:52:21 AM
yes, Ron. That is what we expect of you conservatives when your guy is at fault... "who cares." We should never expect more from your side, huh? Pretty pathetic don't you think? I would guess you would care when it is Portland, or... god forbid, Vancouver (Portland's little sister) that gets wiped out with an earthquake. How will you feel when FEMA takes their sweet time to respond while your family members die? Will that be a dead horse? Will you care then? Probably not.
posted on September 9, 2005 10:05:39 AM
Rusty I have already said Brown should be fired. But then again that must be selective reading which seems to permeate the left.
Nothing more can be said about Brown that I care about, he is a dead horse in my opinion.
Oh and Royce Pollard disagrees with you about Vancouver being Portland's little sister. We are her bedroom though.
posted on September 9, 2005 10:16:55 AM
NEWSFLASH Michael Brown being sent back to WASHINGTON .... 2 weeks too late
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posted on September 9, 2005 10:55:50 AM
Somewhere in Texas a small village is missing its VILLAGE IDIOT.
Linda_K and Karl Rove are now in charge of damage control for this White House and the CON-servative movement in regards to the New Orleans mess. "BRING IT ON" Linda and Karl "BRING IT ON" YES!!!
Turns out Turd-Blossom desired a Double Latte MOCHA and turned to the MOST QUALIFIED Dumbo Adminstration official to do carry-out for him: Fudge-Brownie!
Upon delivery of TWO (count em: TWO) cups of coffee, Dumbo was overheard mumbling:
"Yer doing a HELL of a job, Brownie..."
How many covert heros has this slimeball murdered?
posted on September 9, 2005 11:12:31 AM
Ron, after I typed the "little sister" comment, I laughed and told my girlfriend that I probably offended you on that comment, which was totally intentional. lol. When you get a chance, you should swing on by our store and introduce yourself.
posted on September 9, 2005 12:56:23 PMDUMBO BACKS FUBAR'S FUDGE-BROWNIE!
(all the way over the clift...)
"Amid harsh criticism of federal relief efforts, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff announced Friday that Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FUBAR), is handing over Hurricane Katrina relief duties to a Coast Guard official and returning to Washington to oversee the national office.
“Other challenges and threats remain around the world,” and Brown is needed to prepare for those, Chertoff said at a news conference in Baton Rouge.
“Michael Brown has done everything he possibly could to coordinate the federal response to this unprecedented challenge,” Chertoff added. He sidestepped a question on whether the move was the first step toward Brown’s leaving FUBAR.
He went on to note that, with Brown's EXTENSIVE experience as past President of the International Arabian Horse Association before taking CHARGE of FUBAR, Brownie should be uniquely qualified to BROWN-NOSE all the HORSES-ASSES in the Dumbo Adminstration."
How many covert heros has this slimeball murdered?
for the victims that were MURDERED by the gross negligance & WILLFULL incompetance of DUMBO'S "team"
We are her bedroom though.
