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 HumanBean
Joined: 6/26/2005
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Ex-FEMA head to start disaster planning firm

DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

“If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way,” Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Brown said officials need to “take inventory” of what’s going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

In the aftermath of the hurricane, critics complained about Brown’s lack of formal emergency management experience and e-mails that later surfaced showed him as out of touch with the extent of the devastation.

The lawyer admits that while he was head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency mistakes were made in the response to Katrina. He also said he had been planning to quit before the hurricane hit.

“Hurricane Katrina showed how bad disasters can be, and there’s an incredible need for individuals and businesses to understand how important preparedness is,” he said.

Brown said companies already have expressed interested in his consulting business, Michael D. Brown LLC. He plans to run it from the Boulder area, where he lived before joining the Bush administration in 2001.

“I’m doing a lot of good work with some great clients,” Brown said. “My wife, children and my grandchild still love me. My parents are still proud of me.”
 alienboy
Joined: 9/10/2004
Msg: 2
Michael Brown's New Job
Posted: 11/25/2005 10:20:35 AM
Why do republicans constantly get rewarded for incompetence and failure?

I blame the education system.




(just kidding)
 beachcomberbenn
Joined: 10/31/2005
Msg: 3
Michael Brown's New Job
Posted: 11/25/2005 10:22:43 AM
I heard Cheney is going to start a non-profit, Rumsfeld is going to start a dove farm, and W. is going to start a school for the gifted.
 dmotz39
Joined: 3/19/2005
Msg: 4
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Posted: 11/25/2005 10:29:26 AM
Clinton is going into the dry cleaning business......specializing in Blue Dresses......Hillary want to be a ballirina when she grow's up......And Vince Foster wants to live again.....
 Takoma
Joined: 4/19/2005
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Michael Brown's New Job
Posted: 11/25/2005 1:32:31 PM
I'm sure he'll do a heckuva job.
 Takoma
Joined: 4/19/2005
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Posted: 11/25/2005 1:37:03 PM

Clinton is going into the dry cleaning business......specializing in Blue Dresses......Hillary want to be a ballirina when she grow's up......And Vince Foster wants to live again.....


That's really pathetic. And not funny. Must be redneck humor. Haw haw. I get it now! Yup, yup, yup.
 WorldCitizen
Joined: 11/4/2005
Msg: 7
Michael Brown's New Job
Posted: 11/25/2005 2:15:43 PM

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.


and who, besides the federal and state governments would PAY HIM for such a service?

Believe me... you don't start up a business like that without assurances that you will get clientele.

He's still workin' it... for sure.

Yaknow... everyone in politics does appointments where some big fundraiser or rich person gets a job they're not qualified for... but in republican administration, even after a huge embaressment like this, he'll never go back to the little hole they pulled him out of. He'll keep on getting money from the administration for SOMETHING... This is one reason big business gives the gift that keeps on giving to the GOP.
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