But Tom! I don't know anything about Arabian horses!
Or about emergency planning, except how to get kids out of the library during a fire drill and where to go if required to evacuate the area.
But that's kind of the point, isn't it? Someone who knows a lot about the latter ought to be in charge of the agency responsible for Federal emergency management.
Instead we had someone in charge who knows a lot about horse management, which may be how he got the job (judging by his resume, real and imagined) in the first place.