ew, ew, ew…
michael brown, george bush’s appointed head of fema, is gross.
not only has he botched the katrina rescue efforts, but it turns out that his resumee is full of lies.
ugh. the bush administration just go from grotesque to grotesque-r(if ‘grotesque-r’ is a word. if it’s not it should be, purely to describe the bush administration).
how can anyone think that bush and his administration take national security seriously when they appoint people(aka-shameless, disgusting liars)like michael
brown to incredibly important posts?
for a look at the head of fema, and some other fema ineptitude, here you go.
-moby
“brown,â more unqualified than you thought
astoundingly, fema director michael brown is even more unqualified for his job than previously believed. the reason: he’s been lying on his resume. a 2001 white house press release states that “from 1975 to 1978, brown worked for the city of edmond, oklahoma, overseeing the emergency services divisions.” brown’s official government biography says he servedâ “as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight.” time magazine contactedâ claudia deakins, head of public relations for the city of edmond and got the real story. deakins revealed that brown “was an ‘assistant to the city manager’ from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees. ‘the assistant is more like an intern,’ she told time. ‘department heads did not report to him.'” it’s just one of several fabrications brown has made about his professional experience.
brown falsely claims he was named “outstanding professor”: in a profile on findlaw.com, brown claims he was named “outstanding political science professor, central state university.”â charles johnson, a member of the university’s public relations office, said brown “wasn’t a professor here, he was only a student here.” (johnson added, “‘he may have been an adjunct instructor’ … but that title is very different from that of ‘professor.'”) johnson said the chair of the political science department at csu was not aware of the “outstanding political science professor” award.
brown falsely claims he’s a director at a nursing home: on his findlaw.com profile, brown “states that from 1983 to the present he has been director of the oklahoma christian home, a nursing home in edmond.” an administrator at the home told time that brown is “not a person that anyone here is familiar with.” the nursing home doesn’t have a board of directors anymore and when it did, no one remembers brown being on it. according to a veteran employee brown “was never director here, was never on the board of directors, was never executive director. he was never here in any capacity. i never heard his name mentioned here.”
brown’s conduct may jeopardize his law license: brown is a member of the oklahoma state bar. according to the “oklahoma rules of professional conduct,” conduct involving “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” is a violation constituting “professional misconduct.” oklahoma state law specifies that “any lawyer violating these rules of professional conduct shall be subject to discipline.” discipline includes “disbarment, suspension of a respondent from the practice of law for a definite term … public censure or private reprimand.” note to other members of the oklahoma state bar: according to rule 8.3 of the oklahoma rules of professional conduct, “a lawyer having knowledge that another lawyer has committed a violation of the rules of professional conduct that raises a substantial question as to that lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, shall inform the appropriate professional authority.”
incompetence at fema runs deep: the washington post reports that “[f]ive of eight top federal emergency management agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters.” the top three officials — brown, chief of staff patrick j. rhode and deputy chief of staff brooks d. altshuler — “arrived with ties to president bush’s 2000 campaign or to the white house advance operation.” because of high turnover in recent years, “nine of 10 regional directors are working in an acting capacity.” the result: “[e]xperts inside and out of government said a ‘brain drain’ of experienced disaster hands throughout the agency, hastened in part by the appointment of leaders without backgrounds in emergency management, has weakened the agency’s ability to respond to natural disasters.”