Two Bush 2000 Florida recount aides were rewarded with top FEMA posts

[scoopmeister]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002346.html

Reversing an eight-year crusade to rid the now-embattled Federal Emegency Management Agency of political patronage, a newly elected George W. Bush in 2001 named two key players in his Florida recount fight to important FEMA posts.

Neither man, Jacksonville attorney Reynold Hoover and Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, had any experience in emergency management before they were named by the Bush administration to FEMA, now under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

Hoover, a longtime "explosives expert" with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who became a lawyer in 1996, is still with FEMA as its director of national security coordination. Wallace left the Bush administration in 2004 to become deputy manager of the president's re-election campaign, and is now a lobbyist.

[Zenlitened]

1. "Explosives expert"? Did he blow up the levee?

He hasn't DENIED doing so. And y'know, 'some people' are saying...

:crazy:

Hey, smearboating is fun! :D

[libertypirate]

3. You don't need boom boom, a fire hose would do just fine!!!

Like a high pressure mining operation...

[gatorboy]

4. LOL!!!!

Yer a funny guy!

[KoKo]

5. Good Grief....first thing I thought when I saw that. Has he been seen

around NO? Was he there just before Katrina struck and they had him waiting offshore on the USS Bataan? :tinfoilhat:

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. At the bottom of the page, both Michelle Malkin and Bill Kristol

are slamming Brown.

Brown will be the fall-guy to keep the heat off *.