You’re still paying Mike Brown’s salary.
By on Oct 21st, 2005 at 12:36 pm
You’re still paying Mike Brown’s salary.
“Andrews confirmed that Brown is still on FEMA’s payroll as a consultant. She said he works from home, where he is ‘pulling all the documentation together’ to aid in the investigations into the government’s response to Katrina. His original 30-day contract was recently extended for another 30 days, she said.” (Via War & Piece)
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Ah yes. Nice to know Drownie is charged with
October 21st, 2005 at 12:41 pmcollecting the information for the investigation.
I’m sure he will do “a heck-of-a job”.
Does he get to eat out much?
I work from home too………pfffft.
October 21st, 2005 at 12:46 pmHopefully his dinner plans won’t get messed up by having to gather all of those documents up. Background noise is so bother some.
October 21st, 2005 at 12:53 pmBrownie, the ultimate troll.
October 21st, 2005 at 12:58 pmYeah, we’re paying all of their salaries and as bad as Drownie is, most of them are much, much worse. Could you recommend a choice?
October 21st, 2005 at 1:08 pmImagine Tyco retained Koslowski as a consultant whilst his conduct as CEO was under investigation. Or Enron retained Ken Lay to work from home and take care of the audit trail whilst the Enron bankruptcy was investigated.
FUBAR is the only apt description of this god-awful political era.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:08 pmHush money?
The taxpayers continue to pay Brownie not to publically criticize Bush. Nice deal, eh?
October 21st, 2005 at 1:10 pmThis is beyond absurd, it’s criminal.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:14 pm“working from home” is always code for goofing off at home…
read more about Mikey’s contacts with Marty below… apparently it wasn’t just email – there was a phone call, too…
http://blogdebogs.blogspot.com/2005/10/conversation-with-compassionate.html
October 21st, 2005 at 1:27 pmYeah, I’ve got that document here somewhere…
Oh, No, the dog just ate that one… At least I still have the budget doc…
Rats, the dog just threw the first document back up on top of that one…
Still, I’ll bring the rest of them… No! No! don’t throw THOSE on the fire!…
Z.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:29 pmCoincides with pork project reduction.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:30 pmLove that new conservativism!
I for one am glad that Brownie is still getting paid so he can “pull all the documentation together to aid in the investigations into the government’s response to Katrina.”
October 21st, 2005 at 1:34 pmI mean, if anyone else were to do this, we’d have to worry about them tampering with the evidence.
And now that Brownie gets paid to work out of his home, there won’t be any of those inexcusible disturbances during his dinners from those darn poor, afflicted people demanding help.
this way he gets an extra tax break because that new computer he bought is being used for work reasons. sheeeeesh!!!!
October 21st, 2005 at 1:48 pmFitz has a website. Go to Americablog
October 21st, 2005 at 2:10 pmhttp://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/index.html
Fitz has a website! He ain’t folding his tent!
October 21st, 2005 at 2:11 pmIs Drownie still having a hard time finding time for dinner? Working from home, yah right. F*ck him.
October 21st, 2005 at 2:26 pmLet’s see, the guy is totally inept and incompetent, arrogant and criminally negligent, so after he gets fired, he gets a one-month contract, and now a one-month extension on that contract to tie up loose ends? Since when did a fired employee remain on the payroll to tie up loose ends. In addition to his extended wages, he can now deduct from his income tax; his computer, his telephone, his home office, his postage, his utilities and his paper clips!
October 21st, 2005 at 2:27 pmThis ass is a poster child for what’s wrong with this administration.
Interesting that because there is no passed budget yet, federal positions needing to be filled are “frozen”. But, these failures at their appointed jobs just keep getting tax payers’ money for nothing.
October 21st, 2005 at 2:29 pmBe nice, people! Brownie needs more than 20-30 days to write a report… he has “traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise, followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.â€
October 21st, 2005 at 2:36 pmThis should not come as a suprise to you all.
DeLay, Rove, Cheney, Bush, Libby, all of them will continue to draw their salaries, even after convictions. Frist too.
There is no guarantee in the Bush administration that if you are a criminal that you canat continue to work and draw a salary, and then live happily ever after with a very generous retirement.
All government employees, political and appointed, from the past are still drawing their very healthy and generous retirement benefits. Whether convicted of a crime, or pleaded guilty of a crime. It makes no difference.
One on the government dole, always on the government dole. THATS AMURIKA FOLKS!
October 21st, 2005 at 2:37 pmas long as you are loyal and keep your mouth shut, you have a job. it’s that simple.
October 21st, 2005 at 3:01 pmBrownie still on the payroll
Former FEMA Director Mike Brown is still receiving tax-payer dollars as a consultant for FEMA, according to the LA Times. Brown is working from home “pulling all the documentation together” for the investigations into Katrina response, and his origin…
October 21st, 2005 at 3:45 pmWhat’s he having for dinner tonight, that’s what I want to know. The man is clearly an epicurean, and since we’re picking up the tab, I at least want to know what the restaurant of his “choise” is.
October 21st, 2005 at 3:46 pmhe only FEMA employee to ride out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans painted a grim portrait Thursday of an agency led by officials who were unprepared for the scope of the disaster and failed to respond to his increasingly desperate pleas for help.
For 16 critical hours, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, including former director Michael Brown, dismissed the employee’s urgent eyewitness accounts that the hurricane had broken the city’s levee system the morning of Aug. 29 and was causing catastrophic flooding, the staff member told a Senate committee Thursday.
Marty Bahamonde’s emotional testimony, backed by e-mails he sent from New Orleans as floodwaters engulfed much of the city, provides the most detailed eyewitness account yet from a FEMA official of the agency’s response to the disaster.
A longtime FEMA public affairs officer, Bahamonde contradicted testimony that former FEMA Director Michael Brown gave a House committee earlier and portrayed him as failing to grasp the enormity of the catastrophe.
snip.. The rest of the article is here.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/21/MNG3OFC26S1.DTL
My favorite part I’ll just include, which is:
“OH MY GOD!!!!!!!” Bahamonde messaged a co-worker. “I just ate an MRE (military rations) and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants.”
Pretty much says it all!
October 21st, 2005 at 3:50 pmI’m a little concerned here. Bahamonde’s testimony was courageous and heroic. But, just like Joseph Wilson, the Bush administration is going to lash back at him some way for standing againt them. I seriously fear something bad happening to him.
October 21st, 2005 at 5:59 pmhe should be working for free getting all those ‘papers’ – whatever that means. and working from home? shouldnt he be in the offices, etc. – getting info? our govt is so outta whack
October 21st, 2005 at 6:56 pmROY,
Yes, he should be doing ‘real work’, but clearly he didn’t do any of that as FEMA director and he collected a salary – so why should it be any different now?
October 21st, 2005 at 7:40 pmI am glad for this site. Brownie was appointed by Bush so that the administration, while on “VACATION” knew that the country was in good hands.I.E. Drowny. The truth is this government had a plan “PNAC” look it up! Downing Street Minutes! We are not going to take this inhumanity any more! Torture is not America. I am mad at what our government is doing in our name!
October 23rd, 2005 at 2:51 amDoes anyone know if Mike Brown a is freemason? At this time, this is the only reason I can think of as to why he is still on the federal payroll. Special club has it’s privileges. As the facts come in, he cannot be trusted or believed.
October 24th, 2005 at 9:34 pmIt is shameful the way things are being handled by this government. Brown had no experience in crisis management and despite his disgraceful performance with regard to Katrina, he is on the payroll of FEMA! Outrageous is all I can say. We should use those huge bucks to support people who have lost everything because of him and the rest of the government machinery. Instead we are supporting the greed of incompetent and inhuman people like Brown through our taxes. Shame!
November 4th, 2005 at 10:24 am