Great find. I will be posting some interesting FR threads about James Witt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476788/posts
Louisiana governor hires FEMA ex-director James Lee Witt
Associated Press | September 3, 2005
Posted on 09/03/2005 7:29:17 PM PDT by HAL9000
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Arkansan James Lee Witt, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bill Clinton, joined the Louisiana government Saturday to help direct the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Witt, who ran FEMA from 1993 to 2001, said he will stay as long as he as needed.
"He will sit at the table for me, and he will be my voice at the table," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
Louisiana officials are getting stretched too thin and need help, she said.
"I like to hire the smartest people in the country," she added.
Witt has more than 25 years of disaster management experience.
FEMA had been strongly criticized in 1992 for its slow response to Hurricanes Andrew and Hugo. After Witt took over, the agency won praise for its vigorous reaction to Midwest floods and the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles.
Blanco said that, when she told Mike Brown, FEMA's current head, that she hoped to hire him, "he said, `That is absolutely the right thing to do. He will make a huge difference.'"
At the National Hurricane Conference in March, Witt said putting FEMA under the Homeland Security Department hurt its ability to deal with natural disasters.
On Saturday, he said, "Now's not the time to point blame at anyone."
Witt was head of the Arkansas Office of Emergency Services when Clinton was Arkansas governor.
Let's prompt Fox News to give to them everything he actually developed to date for the $500,000 he was given.
Anti Blanco, anti-Clinton, Anti-Witt Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
By the way, aside from corrupt Cronyism and the DNC, WTF is this Clinton stooge doing down here anyway? The only "bimbo eruptions" down in NO concern rape. Oh wait, never mind...
Now more than ever, prayers for ALL ! (Prayers for the outlying Parishes, prayers for Bush that he makes appointments to the Supreme Court that preserve our freedoms !)
Looks like somebody needs to point the finger at Jamie boy.
Everywhere I go here tonight I'm reading quotes from this woman that are hysterically funny.