Originally published September 23 2005
Man behind FEMA's "embarrassing" Katrina response was fired from previous job
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Federal Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Mike Brown only got the position as FEMA chief because of his friendship with the former head of the emergency management group, former associates said, and The Boston Herald reports the GOP activist was fired from his previous job as a horse show supervisor during a rash of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures.
``I look at FEMA and I shake my head,'' said a furious Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday, calling the response ``an embarrassment.'' President Bush, after touring the Big Easy, said he was ``not satisfied'' with the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation.
And U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch predicted there would be hearings on Capitol Hill over the mishandled operation.
Brown - formerly an estates and family lawyer - this week has has made several shocking public admissions, including interviews where he suggested FEMA was unaware of the misery and desperation of refugees stranded at the New Orleans convention center.
Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11 years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association, a breeders' and horse-show organization based in Colorado.
``We do disciplinary actions, certification of (show trial) judges.
We hold classes to train people to become judges and stewards.
And we keep records,'' explained a spokeswoman for the IAHA commissioner's office.
Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures.
``He was asked to resign,'' Bill Pennington, president of the IAHA at the time, confirmed last night.
Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election campaign.
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