Hey, be fair to the guy!! Cut a fellow okie some slack! Help me, Tom!
I think we would ALL agree that a guy whose last private sector job was organizing horse shows is PERFECT for the post... hell, he even is an adjunct professor of law at the world famous Oklahoma City University!!! Before the horse show stuff he was a family and estates lawyer...
Sure he may be a Bush political cronie, but if he can organize horse shows and deal with the legalities of wills and estates I am certain he is MORE than qualified to handle the greatest natural disaster in our nation's history- Tom Brosz will back me up on this!
Sure there may have been complaints that FEMA was the Bush dumping ground for his cronies...
Paul Light, a professor of organizational studies at New York University who has testified before Congress on FEMA's role in the Department of Homeland Security, said that for years, FEMA was a dumping ground for the politically connected.
But during the Clinton years, Light said, FEMA Director James Lee Witt "built a serious hierarchy around expertise. Somewhere along the line, FEMA has returned to being a destination of last resort for political appointees."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fema9sep09,0,2520597.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Just because someone got his job because of political connections doesnt mean that they cant do the job...
Well you wont have Mr. Brown to kick around any more! He still director of FEMA and now, after a job well done, he is going home to have a stiff maguarita and some sleep (his words not mine)