How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?
A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's official biographies
From dailykos:
FEMA's Brown padded resume: hardly a lawyer, either
Although much of this article dwells on Brown's status as a lawyer and whether or not his law school was accredited by some organization that I never heard of, the AALS, I think his law school was accredited by the American Bar Association. So he's a lawyer, just a bad one. Which seems to be what he has been his whole life -- a lazy useless SOB. So of course that's who President Eternal Vacation chose to run the country's largest disaster response agency. Brownie, you're doin a great job!
From dailykos:
Brown's emergency management experience came when he was 20 and still working on his BA
How many 47 year olds do you know that have a resume that includes jobs they held while working on their undergraduate degree?
A 12/03/2001 White House press release nominating Michael D. Brown as Deputy Director of FEMA states:
...from 1975 to 1978, Brown worked for the City of Edmond, Oklahoma, overseeing the emergency services divisions.
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(1) How many "emergency services divisions" do you suppose your average city of approximately 25,000 in Oklahoma ordinarily maintains?
(2) What credentials did Brown have for his Edmond 'oversight' job in addition to his high school diploma? Was it a full time position? What percentage of the position was devoted to emergency services?
(3) Just how desperate was the White House in looking for justification for Brown's nomination to include this college job in their official press release?
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More biographical data may be found at Findlaw. Additional research on Brown's background may yield some additional interesting details. For example, Findlaw includes the following entry for Brown:
Chairman, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, Edmond, OK, 1980 - Present
The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority web site states:
The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority was established by the Oklahoma Legislature on June 2, 1981. Why? What forces caused the creation of this joint action agency? What did the participants expect the Authority to accomplish that was beyond their reach as individual cities? OMPA was formed to provide an adequate, economical, and reliable source of electric power for cities who owned their municipal electric system on the date of "The Act."
Was it 1980 or 1981? And what qualifies an individual who is just finishing law school to be the best candidate to be selected as Chairman of this new organization?
From TPM Cafe:
42 Minutes of Shame
Brown was confirmed by the Senate after a 42 minute hearing.
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