Pity me, FEMA boss wrote

[brooklynite]

It was a tough week for the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but they weren't the only ones suffering. Pity poor Mike Brown.

Amid growing criticism of his handling of the disaster, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent an E-mail last week to family and friends, bemoaning the fact that everyone was picking on him.

"I don't mind the negative press but it is really wearing out the family," Brown wrote, according to the E-mail obtained by the Rocky Mountain News.

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New Orleanians may be disinclined to join Brown's pity party, but his E-mail aroused the sympathy of at least one recipient.

Mary Ann Karns, an Oklahoma lawyer who once worked with Brown in the Edmond, Okla., city government, told the Rocky Mountain News she was so incensed when she read his E-mail that she offered to drive to Louisiana to "evacuate" him from the media storm.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/345345p-294766c.html

[phantom power]

1. FEMA-ing is hard work. It's hard. It's hard, hard work.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Hey brownie here is the full violiin section for ya

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[Flubadubya]

3. "It's horrible.... He does not deserve this as a human being."

Maybe not Ms. Karns, but he does as a shitty FEMA director! Duh! :eyes:

[Turbineguy]

4. Yes, well,

Lying on your resume and taking a job you are not qualified for can result in consequences.

It would be the same for anybody else.

[newswolf56]

5. Let us bear in mind that demonizing Brown is the political equivalent...

of the "lone gunman" ploy: it focuses our attention on an individual and thereby distracts us from the attitudes, policies and systemic failures that are ultimately to blame. Which is not to minimize Brown's culpability -- merely to caution that we shouldn't allow the oligarchy to turn it into a red herring.

[Garbo 2004]

7. Yeah, he's a gnat and they would put him in charge of FEMA shows what

little concern they really have about emergency management.

The fish rots from the head as they say. Far above Brown.

[RallyInDC]

6. he should have thought that before helping dubya....

with the election fraud....I think i heard in 2000 and 2004....paid millions, mike brown paid millions to florida voters....

and oh.....he should resign in shame, since nobody will ever trust him now. the greatest casualty will be the iraq senseless war and bush, as well as....the bosses.