{"id":7118,"date":"2006-04-12T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2006-04-12T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:45:47","slug":"brownie-can-do-a-heck-of-a-job-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/brownie-can-do-a-heck-of-a-job-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownie can do a heck of a job in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brown has been more assertive in defending himself and shifting much of the responsibility<\/a> back onto the White House and DHS’ Michael Chertoff. For that matter, Brown’s defense was bolstered by the release of a video<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}