Previously, Mr. Brown served as FEMA's Deputy Director and the agency's General Counsel... Mr. Brown served on the President's Consequence Management Principal's Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks...the President asked him to head the Consequence Management Working Group to identify and resolve key issues regarding the federal response plan... President Bush appointed him to the Transition Planning Office for the new Department of Homeland Security, serving as the transition leader for the EP&R Division. Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. Brown practiced law in Colorado and Oklahoma, where he served as a bar examiner on ethics and professional responsibility for the Oklahoma Supreme Court and as a hearing examiner for the Colorado Supreme Court. He had been appointed as a special prosecutor in police disciplinary matters. While attending law school he 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. His background in state and local government also includes serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight and as a city councilman.This FEMA bio just shows that Brown was politically connected; not qualified. I agree that the mayor of NO, and certainly the pathetic governess, bear most responsibility for the chaos in NO, but Brown is a lightweight, who got appointed WAY above his level of competence. His job is too important.
This FEMA bio just shows that Brown was politically connected; not qualified. That's absolute horse manure. His legal and financial background brought him into disaster preparedness, all the way up to General Counsel (an executive position) of FEMA. From there to Deputy, then Director. Of course he had political connections. So did Rumsfeld, and Condi, and Dick Cheney, and Colin Powell, and Tom Ridge, and Tommy Thompson...
Brown was and is WELL qualified to be FEMA's head.
Even though your post is as nonsensical as the rest of them, I give you credit for at least looking at his bio.