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

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by poncho, Sep 10, 2005.

  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    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 (pictured at left) 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.

    They are two more names to add to the list of political appointees and out-and-out hacks at FEMA. Many are calling for the firing of agency chief Michael Brown, the ousted head of a horse association who was hired at FEMA in 2001 along with his college roommate, top Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh. And it was reported yesterday that FEMA's No. 2 and No. 3 officials, Patrick Rhode and Scott Morris, are also former campaign aides.

    Consider this quote:

    "FEMA is widely viewed as a 'dumping ground,' a turkey farm, if you will, where large numbers of positions exist that can be conveniently and quietly filled by political appointment," the preliminary report said. "This has led to a situation where top officials, having little or no experience in disaster or emergency management, are creating substantial morale problems among careerists and professionals. "

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  2. OldRegular

    OldRegular Well-Known Member

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    I demand a recount! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
     
  3. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    SHHHHH! Not so loud OR, those liberals might hear ya and we could end up with the other globalist Skull & Bones candidate Kerry. :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D
     
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    President Bush has stated that he is loyal to his friends.
     
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