Brownie can do a heck of a job in New Orleans

April 12, 2006

I know former [tag]FEMA[/tag] Director [tag]Mike Brown[/tag] has been looking for work, but I didn’t expect him to end up in New Orleans.

“Former FEMA director [tag]Michael Brown[/tag] might be joining St. Bernard Parish as a paid [tag]consultant[/tag]. Brown, who resigned his FEMA post last September in the wake of stinging criticism of the agency’s response to Hurricane [tag]Katrina[/tag], is expected to visit the parish [this] week.

“During his visit, Brown and parish officials will discuss the possibility of the parish contracting with Brown as a guide to help it navigate the bureaucracy of federal storm aid. Brown now has a consulting business.”

Brown has been more assertive in defending himself and shifting much of the responsibility back onto the White House and DHS’ Michael Chertoff. For that matter, Brown’s defense was bolstered by the release of a video last month highlighting the fact that Bush and Chertoff were clearly told of Katrina’s dangers numerous times, but failed to follow through on the threat.

But of all the cities to hire Brown as a consultant, New Orleans? Does he really want to return to the scene of the crime?

Maybe someone should tell St. Bernard Parish that hiring a guy who was fired for incompetence (who then blamed the people who fired him) to help you get the most out of the agency that just fired him (and is still run by the people he balmed) may not be the best plan.

Just when things appear to be as bizzare as they can get….

  • I’ll give him one for moxie, and potentially one for honor and courage. Wouldn’t it be the right thing for an honest person to do?

  • “Wouldn’t it be the right thing for an honest person to do?” – Rian

    Maybe rolling up his sleeves and clearing debris?

    Though truefully, he is more valuable consulting on how to get money and help out of D.C.. It’s just pathetic that is true.

  • “Redemption work” mustn’t be physical labor, but nothing in the article indicates he will be working at a discount(say the average wage of the people affected). If he is going to be getting paid standard consulting rates for helping clean up the mess he helped make, I do not consider that “redemptive”.

  • As a resident of New Orleans, I should clarify that St. Bernard is not the same as the city of New Orleans. It’s sort of like what Chantilly or Reston is to DC — an outlying suburb. That said, we still don’t know what Junior Rodriguez/St. Bernard Parish is thinking!

  • It’s a crying shame to lose one of my two favorite cities (the other being San Francisco) due to Bush’s willful ignorance, to realize that the Administration will only allow it to come back slowly, preferably as a predominantly white, Republican theme park. I have a feeling that Brown was as much a tool as everyone else in this Administration is, at least he claims to have been and doesn’t seem to have the smarts to have been anything else.

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