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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Given that these two businesses have very different financial models and compete in different market environments, they represent two distinct investment opportunities for shareholders,
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Mike will be working across a number of programs within Australian cricket with his area of expertise in fielding and throwing.
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I hope his physical strength and all will help him deal with whatever heart issues he has.
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the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there.
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There were five trucks arriving (Thursday) night to feed well over 50,000 people. There's less than that there. We're also diverting supplies to the convention center, which I learned about (Thursday). So I understand people's frustrations. But this has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster, and we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'
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They're a good team -- there's no doubt about that -- but there were a few things that we could have done that would have changed some things,
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I'm almost sure it didn't go to the White House.
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I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.
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My first words to him were, 'Mr. President, it is my estimation ... at least 90 percent of the population of New Orleans has been displaced. He was truly taken aback by that.
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FEMA has pre-positioned many assets including ice, water, food and rescue teams to move into the stricken areas as soon as it is safe to do so.
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I knew in my gut this was the bad one.
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I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.
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My gut tells me ... this is a bad one and a big one.