FEMA extends Brown's contract by 30 days

[brooklynite]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday defended FEMA's decision to extend former director Michael Brown's post-resignation employment by another 30 days.

"It's important to allow the new people who have the responsibility ... to have access to the information we need to do better," Chertoff told The Associated Press as he flew to view Hurricane Wilma's damage in Florida.

"We don't want to sacrifice the real ability to get a full picture of Mike's experiences; we don't want to sacrifice that ability simply in order to make an image point," Chertoff said.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/13002851.htm
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I suppose this makes sense: Let people study's Brownie's approach to the job and do the opposite.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. How many of you

have done a lousy job and have been forced to resign, only to be re-hired? I didn't think so.

[sabra]

2. because he brings so much to the table... the wealth of knowledge

is essential for the transition :sarcasm:

[Wickerman]

3. pay off, job in name only

I'll bet Brownie hasn't been inside a FEMA building in weeks.

[brooklynite]

8. Actually, he's been stuck in traffic, going to dinner...

On Thursday, FEMA official Marty Bahamonde testified in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He was the first official from the agency to arrive in New Orleans ahead of Katrina. In the midst of the chaos and horror of the hurricane's aftermath, Bahamonde sent a dire e-mail to Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from Brown.

Instead, less than three hours later, an aide to Brown sent an e-mail saying her boss wanted to go on a television program that night. But first, the aide said, Brown needed at least an hour to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant, writing, "He needs much more than 20 or 30 minutes."

[kurth]

4. They haven't had enough of his idiocy?

[BOSSHOG]

5. brown should be charged with negligent homicide

instead he stays on the payroll. And there are those who question why we call it a culture of corruption. "Full picture of mike's experience??" Let poor people die! Conservatives are idiots and chertoff has been trained to know that those in organizations like free republic and the klan will continue to give them a pass.

[Rick Myers]

6. Lesse, he SUCKED, he QUIT, and WE keep paying him?

:grr::wtf::grr:

[Metta]

7. The full picture of Mike's experiences?

Is he serious? They both belong in jail. They're maintaining the image of a tragically failed agency, in Biblical proportions. This is what they want America to look like. Not caring how this plays out.

[onenote]

9. I can only assume that Chertoff gets kickbacks from Leno's joke writers

Its the only explanation I can come up with for why he would extend Brownie's contract.

onenote

[bklyncowgirl]

10. LOL!

[shavedape]

still doin a heckuva job, brownie

a heckuva bad job indeed.

[jbane]

15. absolutely, Brownie, Scootie, Rovie all top notch Medal of Freedom worthy.

[Beetwasher]

11. What A Fucking Scam, And We're ALL the Marks

Scumbags.

[daleo]

12. Someone should be extending his prison term by 30 years

Negligent homicide of hundreds (at least) really ought to be punished.

[stevedeshazer]

13. This last bit from the article says it all

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Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., whose coastal district was among the hardest hit by Katrina, said the contract extension is an insult to taxpayers, particularly those Gulf Coast residents "whose lives were in danger in the aftermath of that storm because of Mike Brown's incompetence."

"I've got tens of thousands of people living in two-man igloo tents tonight, and less than a quarter of the people who have asked for FEMA travel trailers have gotten them," Taylor said. "And at the same time they can find $140,000 a year to pay this incompetent son of a gun; that's ridiculous."

Brown did not immediately respond to a telephone call and e-mail seeking comment.
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Perhaps Brownie is waiting to respond while he has another steak dinner at Ruth's Chris?

[Tight_rope]

14. What in the hell are we paying him for...

"It's important to allow the new people who have the responsibility ... to have access to the information we need to do better,".

Now this statement is pure horse shit. Brown didn't know shit about doing the job that's why they removed him from the position. So what does he have that we need so bad that we can't get elsewhere. What "SECRET FILES"? IMO, any information we get from him now is sure to be bad information, considering he didn't know what he was doing in the first place.

It's like going to the ophthalmologist when you have a toothache. What in the hell is he going to tell you about your damn teeth.:spank:

[EndElectoral]

16. According to GW...Brownie was doing a heckuva job....

[HereSince1628]

17. What does Brown know? Bush's culpability?

[madmark]

18. These people really like to piss money away

[WhiteTara]

19. experiences like making sure he finishes

dinner first? I mean after all, people are only drowning and good reservations are hard to get. It takes true skill to hone those techniques.

Actually, I suspect that in good ole boy fashion, since youredoingaheckofajobbrownie still hasn't found a new gig and so the boys are fronting him for another month and telling he has to work harded to get back in good graces with the horse folks.
:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

20. Brownie has a mortgage, and kids and he probably "knows " about stuff

No doubt, he will have to find a way to make a living, if they cut him loose.. He might even "need" to write a tell-all book, so he will be kept close.. They are counting on the fact that the public will "move on" and they can ensconce brownie in some back office sorting paperclips for half a mil "salary", and then move him into some carefullt selected corporate boards..

They dare not cut him loose