Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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Clearly on the conference calls that was being discussed, Max Mayfield made that clear to everyone.
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He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambulance to come.
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I'm anxious to get back to D.C. to correct all the inaccuracies and lies,
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I was still worried about it, because I knew what the potential was. But I think the president was speaking honestly at that point that he didn't really anticipate that they would be breached because of all this conflicting information.
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No. No. I'm still the director of FEMA.
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Excluding the fiscal year 1999 special charges, Litton's results would have reflected consensus expectations.
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I find it a little disingenuous. For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney.
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They will be processed as rapidly as possible.
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FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours,
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That's something we need to look at because, ... when you have 100,000 folks that either can't get out, they don't have the transportation, we need to work with the cities to make certain there's a way to get those people out or at least put them in areas that can be safe.
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Clearly the evidence is there that we have young people under the age of 21 routinely buying alcohol in our bars. Let's be realistic about it, and that's not good. When you get to be 21 then you can be an adult and you can drink responsibly and be an adult. But right now we don't need to have people under 21 in bars.
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I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife and, maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep. And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims, ... This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit and now we have to help these victims.
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Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.
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Brush clearance creates the defensible space that's needed, at least 100 feet surrounding the house. Areas that did burn were not cleared.