VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[rich]

couldn't resist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Allbaugh

On 4/21/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's been often said that republicans believe in the incompetence of
> administrative government because they know how badly they run it
> themselves.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:37 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> it is hard to believe but FEMA was once a well-run organization (i'm
>> thinking Clinton appointee James lee Witt--a man w/ true background in
>> disaster mgmt--see aftermath I think of Hurricane Andrew in Florida)
>> before the bumblers Joseph Allbaugh (almost a cartoon cutout--check out
>> the hairdo) and eventually Michael Browne got their hands on it.
>>
>> background of the head of FEMA in 1984 was a Reagan insider, friends of
>> the lovely Edwin Meese (the American Hermann Goring). booted out for
>> corruption (good gosh!)
>