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Lest we forget: (Original Post) hedgehog Aug 2012 OP
As the media prepare to go to N.O. for the effects of this storm, out pops all of the history livetohike Aug 2012 #1
Compare and contrast: hedgehog Aug 2012 #2

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
1. As the media prepare to go to N.O. for the effects of this storm, out pops all of the history
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 02:44 PM
Aug 2012

of Bush, Brownie and incompetence. Just in time for the convention. Hoping everyone on the coast is safe.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
2. Compare and contrast:
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 02:49 PM
Aug 2012

W. Craig Fugate began serving in the position of Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in May 2009.

Prior to coming to FEMA, Fugate served as Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. In that role since 2001, he managed 138 full-time staff and a budget of $745 million. His agency coordinated disaster response, recovery, preparedness and mitigation efforts with each of the state's 67 counties and local governments.

Fugate began his emergency management career as a volunteer firefighter, Emergency Paramedic, and finally as a Lieutenant with the Alachua County Fire Rescue. Eventually, he moved from exclusive fire rescue operations to serving as the Emergency Manager for Alachua County in Gainesville, Fla. He spent a decade in that role until May 1997 when he was appointed Bureau Chief for Preparedness and Response for FDEM.

http://www.fema.gov/leadership/william-craig-fugate

Michael D. Brown
Before joining the DHS/FEMA, Brown was the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association, (IAHA), from 1989-2001. After numerous lawsuits were filed against the organization over disciplinary actions that Brown took against members violating the Association's code of ethics,[6] Brown resigned and negotiated a buy-out of his contract.
After Bush
entered office in January 2001, Brown joined FEMA as General Counsel. He was the first person hired by his long-time friend, then-FEMA director Joe Allbaugh,[10] who also ran Bush's election campaign in 2000. Allbaugh later named Brown his acting deputy director in September 2001. Bush formally nominated him as deputy director on March 22, 2002, and the Senate confirmed him many months later after the recovery efforts in New York had subsided. Brown oversaw the recovery efforts for New York and surrounding states with the White House Office of Domestic Policy's Reuben Jeffery III who later became chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. After Bush announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security Allbaugh left government and Bush nominated Brown again in January 2003 for the directorship. Brown was sworn in to his position on April 15, 2003. Prior to his nomination as Under Secretary the White House appointed Brown to head a transition team creating the Emergency Preparedness & Response Directorate within DHS.

Before that, shortly after the September 11 attacks, Brown served on the Consequence Management Principals' Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks. Later, Bush asked him to head the Consequence Management Working Group to identify and resolve key issues regarding the federal response plan. In August 2002, 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. As undersecretary, Brown also directed the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center, the National Disaster Medical System and the Nuclear Incident Response Team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown

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