How Michael Brown Helped Bush Win Florida

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/leopold09122005.html

The Politics of False Claims

Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.

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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel uncovered emails from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that confirmed those allegations and directly implicated Brown as playing politics at the expense of hurricane victims.

"As the second hurricane in less than a month bore down on Florida last fall, a federal consultant predicted a "huge mess" that could reflect poorly on President Bush and suggested that his re-election staff be brought in to minimize any political liability, records show," the Sentinel reported in a March 23 story.

"Two weeks later, a Florida official summarizing the hurricane response wrote that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was handing out housing assistance "to everyone who needs it without asking for much information of any kind."

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you will have to read the rest to see what exactly he did.

and then compare it to what he/they did and are doing in NO

[texpatriot2004]

1. That's not gonna help their hemorrhage right now. Too bad. n/t

[KT2000]

2. So Jeb was unscathed

by this revelation?? What does it take to clean up these crooks.