Michael Brown, former FEMA director praised by President George W. Bush for doing a “heckuva job” during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, told a local paper that President Barack Obama acted too quickly in mobilizing relief for Superstorm Sandy.
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Brown told the Denver’s Westword that-
“It’s premature [when] the brunt of the storm won’t happen until later this afternoon.”
Obama declared a state of emergency on Sunday all along the East Coast in the path of Sandy, well before the storm hit, allowing federal resources to start flowing where local officials thought they would be needed.
FEMA and local responders were able to pre-position a lot of the material being drawn upon now.
Brown must be upset that Obama is doing a better job than he did when New Orleans was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Obama also held a press conference warning people to pay careful attention to the storm saying-
“This is a serious and big storm…And my first message is to all the people across the Eastern seaboard, Mid-Atlantic, going north, that you need to take this very seriously.”
Brown suggested Obama was just trying to look good saying, “He probably figured Sunday was a good day to do a press conference,”
It’s always politics with people like Brown. So disrespectful.
SOURCE: Denver Westward
