Re: FEMA DIR MIKE BROWN JUST GOT REMOVED!!!

Quit listening to Rush Limbaugh and get your facts from the source. In this
case, the source is:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

dated 8/27/2005,

which states, in part:


Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana




The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana
and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in
the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August
26, 2005, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide
appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under
Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public
health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the
parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo,
Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East
Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle,
Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee,
Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry,
Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its
discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of
the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including
direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

Representing FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency
Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, named William
Lokey as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in
the affected area.





Phyllis Nilsson wrote:
> But what good would honest credentials have been since Governor Blanco
> refused to ask for help and the law says they cannot go in until they
> receive a request from the state's governor. Things were much better
> organized in Mississippi because the governor did the right thing at
> the right time.
>
> Anne Vasquez wrote:
>> I agree. It may well be that his lack of the experience he was
>> supposed to have been hired for cost some people their lives and
>> others undue suffering. There's no excuse for it in a position
>> carrying that kind of responsibility. I think the powers-that-be
>> that hired him should be held accountable for not verifying his
>> credentials, as well. Anne


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