Friday, September 9th, 2005...9:06 am
¡Ijuela! It Just Gets Worse
Some of us carping little liberals have been carping lately about Michael Brown’s rather thin resume. Now, it turns out that he may have even exagerated and lied about his previous career.
It’s bad enough that his last management experience ended with his getting fired after several threatened lawsuits (he managed an association that ran Arabian Horse Shows), now it turns out that he may have made up his only preivous experience at emergency management.
He claimed to manage emergency services in Edmond, Oklahoma. I have no doubt that given the constant threat of tornados and drought in the area that this is no small feat. However, he apparently served as some sort of glorified intern. He hadn’t even graduated from college yet.
The guy only seems to have been hired because the previous director, Joe Allbaugh, was his roommate in college.
When James Lee Witt came into the office back in 1993, the place was a shambles exactly because of this sort of cronyism. Witt and Allbaugh seemed to be able to put the place back together. Maybe President Bush was just so confident of the work that Witt and Allbaugh did that he thought he could put any bozo in charge and things would work out.
UPDATE: Wonkette, the blogger that needs to meet me, is reporting that rumors are swirling that Brown may be fired by the end of the day. Still begs the question: why did he get hired in the first place?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, not totally fired…yet.
9 Comments
September 9th, 2005 at 11:00 am
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September 9th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
You and your lady chasing…;p
September 11th, 2005 at 2:25 am
After thinking about it-that guy looks like a used car salesman.
September 12th, 2005 at 10:31 am
No, he has not been fired. He is still collecting a fat paycheck while a Coast Guard officer does him job for him for a considerably lower salary.
September 12th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
And he is still capable of messing up things since he is still in charge of “Operation Trash the US Government-FEMA devision.”
September 12th, 2005 at 1:35 pm
He resigned.
Of course they will now try to claim that all the problems were Michael Brown’s fault, but we have to make it clear that the mistake in judgement of hiring him in the first place is still an issue.
September 13th, 2005 at 6:12 am
Wow, you’d think that a member of the legislature would know the difference in cases of pronouns:
He: Nominative case, subject
His: Genitive case, possession
Him: Accusitive case, object
September 13th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
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September 13th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
Cannot expect much for 24K a year Ted.
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