Michael Brown's Qualifications

The Boston Herald has an article today on Michael Brown's Qualifications. The highlights.

Michael Brown joined FEMA in 2001 as Deputy Director, in 2003 he became head of it when Joseph Allbaugh left to work in the Bush reelection campaign (which he had done before). Before that, Brown was the Commissioner of Judges and Stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association, "the official breed registry for the Arabian horse industry". He held this post for 11 years before he was asked to resign because of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures. Seriously, I'm not joking. Before that he was a lawyer.

So how did he get into FEMA (as Deputy Director no less)? He and Allbaugh were college roommates.

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