Word: allbaugh
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...communication that exist inside the Bush Administration. One channel is used by those, like Brown, who are (or at least were) close to the President and have frequent access to his staff; Brown himself had initially gotten to know Bush through his friend and predecessor at FEMA, Joe Allbaugh, Bush's chief of staff as governor and 2000 campaign manager. Another is used by those who may have a lofty title, but lack the access-and, as a result, often lack the ability to get things done. FEMA reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and some Senators, like...
...Shaw Group, which recently built a helicopter pad for Vice President Dick Cheney's home in Washington. A $3 billion engineering-and-consulting behemoth that has equally close connections to the Louisiana Democratic Party, the Shaw Group, based in Baton Rouge, La., counts former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh as one of its lobbyists in Washington and has scored two separate $100 million Katrina-related contracts--one to help the Army Corps of Engineers pump water out of New Orleans and another to help FEMA provide temporary housing. Soon after the deals were announced, Shaw's struggling stock soared from...
...sensed the incoming Administration's disdain during her first postelection meeting with members of Bush's FEMA transition team. "They said we had done a good p.r. job," she recalls. "I got the impression they had no idea what has to happen to deal with a disaster." Joe Allbaugh, Bush's first FEMA chief, labeled federal disaster aid "an oversized entitlement program" four months before 9/11...
When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn't have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation." But how well was he prepared for the job? Since Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA director has come under heavy criticism for his performance and scrutiny of his background. Now, an investigation by TIME has found discrepancies in his online legal profile and official bio, including a description of Brown released by the White House at the time...
Second, I’d close the revolving door between lobbyist shops and top government jobs. Just recently we’ve seen administration officials like former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe M. Allbaugh moving into the private sector to set up lobbying shops and profit from their insider connections. At the same time, President Bush has appointed top lobbyists to government positions where they are supposed to regulate their former clients. I’d close this revolving door by barring former top officials from lobbying the government for five years, and stopping lobbyists from taking high-level...