Who let’s this idiot collect one more dollar of public money?
Some of the more amusing statements include that descriptions of his background were near defamatory. Strangely, the information contained in this Time Magazine piece is never actually refuted other than a declaration that it wasn’t true.
In more fun, Think Progress isolates a bizarre bit from Brown
BUYER: So I?d like to know why did the president?s federal emergency assistance declaration of August 27th not include the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines?
BROWN: ?[I]f a governor does not request a particular county or a particular parish, that?s not included in the request.
BUYER: All right.
Orleans Parish is New Orleans. I was listening to my colleague, Mr. Jefferson?s, questions about when they talked about, you know, they asked for this assistance for three days and then president responded the very next day, not the day that it was made ? the request ? but the governor of Louisiana actually excluded New Orleans from the president?s federal emergency assistance declaration?
BROWN: Again, Congressman, we looked at the request.The governors make the request by?
BUYER: Let me ask this. Since you went through the exercise in Pam, was that not shocking to you that the governor would excluded New Orleans from the declaration?
BROWN: Yes.
BUYER: When that request came in excluding these three parishes, did you question it?
BROWN: We questioned it. But I made the decision that we were going to go ahead and move assets in regardless because
And as anyone who followed this would know Blanco asked for a fairly broad declaration from the President that included the New Orleans Metropolitan area
Under the provisions of Section 501 (a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. ?? 5121-5206 (Stafford Act), and implemented by 44 CFR ? 206.35, I request that you declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period beginning August 26, 2005, and continuing. The affected areas are all the southeastern parishes including the New Orleans Metropolitan area and the mid state Interstate I-49 corridor and northern parishes along the I-20 corridor that are accepting the thousands of citizens evacuating from the areas expecting to be flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
The uncharitable view is that he lied. My guess is he really was so stupid as to not even go back with his current free time and figure out what happened. He’s not even competent to cover his own butt.
Why Buyer didn’t understand that Blanco did cover the New Orleans Metro area is bizarre as well, but at least he wasn’t there.
Thanks for the delailed account of Brownie’s testimony. I found it to be so chilling that someone with his lack of expertise had such an important job.
Patronage jobs can cause such dangers as this episode illustrates.