Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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Clearly the evidence is there that we have young people under the age of 21 routinely buying alcohol in our bars. Let's be realistic about it, and that's not good. When you get to be 21 then you can be an adult and you can drink responsibly and be an adult. But right now we don't need to have people under 21 in bars.
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Clearly on the conference calls that was being discussed, Max Mayfield made that clear to everyone.
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His kindness is something I will always remember.
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I know that the media will be out in full force, on the ground, in boats, and in the air, but so will we,
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I knew in my gut this was the bad one.
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I just find it difficult to believe that we're not meeting a need if that need has been articulated to us. ... I think that must be getting lost in the chain of command there.
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Even as progress is being made, we know that victims are still out there and we are working tirelessly to bring them the help they need.
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As a former (boys) tennis and softball coach at Northwest, I can speak to this. There were times I had to dress our student manager in order to have enough to start softball games. While we want people to have opportunity, where are the numbers?
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That's why I now have complete cooperation from the military, ... I have everything I need to ramp this up and do what we have to do to secure New Orleans, to take this urban area and make certain it's secure, get people out of here, and start the recovery process.
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CRU was designed for the spiritually curious and the religiously restless. There are many people who would consider themselves a part of CRU.
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And while my heart goes out to people on fixed incomes, it is primarily a state and local responsibility. And in my opinion, it's the responsibility of faith-based organizations, of churches and charities and others, to help those people.
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empower hurricane survivors to really start rebuilding their lives.
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It shows at a minimum, for a disaster like that, you don't always have the best information,