Posted on 10/09/2005 8:51:48 PM PDT by NautiNurse
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Not long before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and his colleagues called officials on the Gulf Coast to offer their help.
Soon after the storm hit, the State of Louisiana signed up with Witt Associates, a disaster consulting firm. Within days, Mr. Witt had become a fixture at the state's emergency operations center in Baton Rouge, advising the governor and sleeping in a trailer. He even figured out a way for FEMA to reimburse the state for his firm's fees, which the company estimates at $4 million to $6 million over the next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
James Lee Witt story
No end to Clinton grifters, crooks and butt people.
For Whelen Engineering, based in Chester, Conn., Mr. Witt helped draft FEMA regulations requiring municipalities to alert residents with a voice siren, a Whelen product, which does not just sound but tells people where to go. Though the regulations have yet to be adopted, John Olson, the company's president, is pleased.
Kickbacks?
No end to Clinton grifters, crooks and butt people.
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An infinite source -- he has the whole radical liberal wing still pandering to him. A disgusting spectacle.
Stinks to high heaven!
With all the talk about Mike Brown's being underqualified for FEMA director, no one ever talks about how James Lee Witt did nothing more than administer the Head Start programs in Arkansas before his Clinton nod.
Tall and trim with striking blue eyes, Mr. Witt speaks with an a twang that reveals his country roots. He never went to college but ran a small construction business and became a county judge, a position that does not require a law degree. He met Mr. Clinton, who installed Mr. Witt as Arkansas's disaster chief and later
Exactly the same thing I thought when I read this paragraph. According to this, anyone who has ever experienced a disaster as a child qualifies to be a government player in charge of billions of $$$ per year once they reach adulthood.
It's a good (and profitable) gig if you know the right people.
MKM
It amazes me that most of those Clinton people just hang around, whereas the Bush people had real jobs as well-paid CEO's before they came back to government.
Not exactly.
Probably a.) fees from client governments, plus b.) commissions from sales of client products.
Unethical? Certainly. Illegal? Well, that would depend on the meaning of "is"...
Ugh, this sticks to the core.
Looks like he didn't do that great of a job then ... almost like the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago.
Looks like he didn't do that great of a job then ... almost like the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago.
Looks like he didn't do that great of a job then ... almost like the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago.
Does anyone still believe New Orleans or Louisiana should be rebuilt with Taxpayer's money?
I don't.....
Semper Fi
That headline makes it all sound so wonderful and fine. As we all know, a former GOP / Conservative FEMA official would never have garnered such a forgiving headline.
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