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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The supply and demand balance just doesn't exist right now. I've been looking at the listing services to see where the market might be headed but there's no consistency.
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I understand people's frustrations. This has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster and so, we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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People were getting homes, jobs - everybody was getting served one way or another.
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The federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.... Now is not the time to be blaming.
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just assumed that agencies would follow up on taskings resulting from the calls.
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I never received specific requests for specific things that needed doing,
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Based on the summer we had last year, with all the rain, the weather now has allowed a lot of our developers and builders to catch up a little bit.
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This is not about saying he's going to get off. It's not about beating the case. It's acknowledging that different homicides are treated differently.
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Certainly the sheriff has a right to endorse any candidate.
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It's been very, very stressful obviously to be called a scapegoat, I know in my heart what I was doing, what I was trying to do and the tapes speak for themselves.
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I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,
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As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?
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I pray to God we don't see those numbers. My gut is ... we don't. But we just don't know.
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I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could ... that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do everything they humanly could to respond to this. Because I knew in my gut this was the bad one.