Northwest FEMA chief is not qualified either - faux college

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002484649_pennington10m.html


Local FEMA chief had little disaster experience



John Pennington, the official in charge of federal disaster response in the Northwest, was a four-term Republican state representative who ran a mom-and-pop coffee company in Cowlitz County when then-Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn helped him get his federal post.

Before he was appointed regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Pennington got a degree from a correspondence school that government investigators later described as a "diploma mill."

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To Pennington's credit, Holdeman said, the regional director has surrounded himself with a competent staff. Pennington's deputy director, Tammy Doherty, is a career emergency manager.

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Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush appointed Pennington to head the Region 10 office of FEMA, overseeing the government's disaster response in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho. He makes $138,000 a year.
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whose your FEMA man? (are there any women?)