September 09, 2005


Busted

-note: this post got really long as I found more stuff and added it. If you read it before, check the bottom of the post, there may be new stuff...sorry for the interruption -

In most places 'padding' your resume and getting caught at it will get you fired...everywhere but here.

according to his bio posted on FEMA's website, was "serving as an assistant city manager with emergency services oversight." The White House press release from 2001 stated that Brown worked for the city of Edmond, Okla., from 1975 to 1978 "overseeing the emergency services division."
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...Brown was an "assistant to the city manager" from 1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other employees. "The assistant is more like an intern," she told TIME. "Department heads did not report to him."
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Under the "honors and awards" section of his profile at FindLaw.com — which is information on the legal website provided by lawyers or their offices—he lists "Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University". However, Brown "wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here," says Charles Johnson, News Bureau Director in the University Relations office at the University of Central Oklahoma (formerly named Central State University).
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Under the heading of "Professional Associations and Memberships" on FindLaw, Brown states that from 1983 to the present he has been director of the Oklahoma Christian Home, a nursing home in Edmond. But an administrator with the Home, told TIME that Brown is "not a person that anyone here is familiar with." She says there was a board of directors until a couple of years ago, but she couldn't find anyone who recalled him being on it. According to FEMA's Andrews, Brown said "he's never claimed to be the director of the home. He was on the board of directors, or governors of the nursing home." However, a veteran employee at the center since 1981 says Brown "was never director here, was never on the board of directors, was never executive director. He was never here in any capacity. I never heard his name mentioned here.
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The FindLaw profile for Brown was amended on Thursday to remove a reference to his tenure at the International Arabian Horse Association, which has become a contested point.

Brown's FindLaw profile lists a wide range of areas of legal practice, from estate planning to family law to sports. However, one former colleague does not remember Brown's work as sterling. Stephen Jones, a prominent Oklahoma lawyer who was lead defense attorney on the Timothy McVeigh case, was Brown's boss for two-and-a-half years in the early '80s. "He did mainly transactional work, not litigation," says Jones. "There was a feeling that he was not serious and somewhat shallow." Jones says when his law firm split, Brown was one of two staffers who was let go.

"There was a feeling that he was not serious and somewhat shallow." Jones says when his law firm split, Brown was one of two staffers who was let go. Well, it seems that Preznit Lifelong Failure found himself a kindred spirit. No wonder he was so baffled by Nancy Pelosi's question, after all why would he want to fire someone whose employment record of professional achievment so nearly mirrors his own?

Up next: an revelation that the Harvard that John Roberts went to was actually the now-defunct Harvard A&T in West Pimple, Connecticut.

So, does the actual lying ever end with these people, or is it just sport now to see how much they can get away with day to day?



Update: so bear with me here as I do a little insomniac magazining about our friend "Brownie"...from a link over at TPM, I found this little gem, which is points to the Senate Comittee chaired by DINO Joe Lieberman, who never saw a Bush Ass he wouldn't happily tongue. In here is a 102-page PDF which covers Browns extensive 42 minute hearing. Now I'm not sure, but from what I have been reading in Time and elsewhere about Michael D. Brown's somewhat padded biography, might his sworn testimony included in the record of his hearing not be ummmm...perjury or something?
(b) What do you believe in your background or employment experience affirmatively qualifies you for this particular appointment?

During my early career in municipal government, I was actively involved in emergency service at the state and local government level, including police, fire, public works and public safety. I believe that my administrative and management experience in state government and large, international nonprofit organization has provided me with the requisite management skills to lead and direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In addition, my legal background includes the representation of emergency service personnel. Through this experience, I was responsible for handling labor, legislative and personnel issues relative to emergency services.

Finally, my tenure as FEMA's General Counsel has provided me with an understanding of the wide-ranging issues FEMA must handle.

Gee, he sounds like Quite A Guy, running a city-wide Emergency Services Program except, he didn't apparently. But he said he did under oath. Here's what the "employment" sections of his sworn testimony look like:
Employment record

February 2001 to present
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Washington, DC

(a bunch of non-governmentally related jobs)

Staff Director
Senate Finance Committee
Oklahoma Legislature
Oklahoman City, Oklahoma

1978-1980
Executive Secretary
Edmond Economic Development Authority
Economic Development Director
Edmond Chamber of Commerce
Edmond, Oklahoma

1975-1978
Assistant City Manager, Police, Fire and Emergency Services
Edmond, Oklahoma

10. Government experience: List any advisory, consultative, honorary or other part-time service or positions with the federal, State, or local governments other than those listed above.

1980-1982
City Councilman
Edmond, OK

1980-1988
Chairman, Treasurer, Board Member
Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority
Edmond, Oklahoma

For about five or so years in the mid-80s after he's graduated from Law School he lists himself as a sole-practioner of his own Law Firm in Enid Oklahoma after he got bounced by Jones, Gungol, Jackson, Collins and Dodd where his tenure was listed as being from 1982-1983. The senate committee report says that his financial disclosure information (assuming past tax returns too) are available at their Washington offices. I wonder what kind of bank old Brownie was doing in his wide-ranging practice of law there in Enid, OK?

This guy is the Fart in Church, no doubt about it...he's out there and no one is going to own up to this smell once people start to figure out he's a resume-padder extraordinaire. Didn't the FBI do any sort of checking-up on him, or was Lieberman so taken by Ben Nighthore Campbell and Wayne Allards glowing and totally bullshit introduction that he just let it go by as a chance to suck more Beloved Leader cock gratis?

What will we tell the children?

Note, I transcribed that directly from the PDF since that part of the Q&A is actually an image file in the document. Sorry in advance for any typos...

Update update: I can't find any reference through Google to this item listed in his sworn testimony

Michael D. Brown Hydroelectric Generation and Dam Project

Honors and awards: List all scholarships, fellowships, honorary degrees, honorary society memberships, military medals, and any other special recognitions for outstanding service or achievements.

Full Debate Scholarship
Southeaster Oklahoma University, 1973-1975

Michael D. Brown Hydroelectric Generation and Dam Project
Named in my honor by the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority
Kay County, Oklahoma, 1988

Really? It doesn't show up (that I could find) in any searchable/readable Google documents or links. Anybody?

Update 3: On the Findlaw web page, which was updated 9/8/2005 he curiously has this listing:

Oklahoma City University School of Law, 1987 - Present
Adjunct Professor in State and Local Gov't. Law, Legislation

Chairman, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, Edmond, OK, 1980 - Present

Director, Foundation for Enid Education & Economic Develop., 1988 - Present

Director, Oklahoma Christian Home, Edmond, OK, 1983 - Present

Hmmmm...more misstatements?
B. Future Employment Relationships
1. Will you sever all connections with your present employers, business firms business associations or business organizations if you are confirmed by the senate?

As the current General Counsel of FEMA, I have already severed such connections effective February, 2001.

This might be unintentional, but given the ease with which this information could have been gotten by our multi-millionaire idiots in the Senate, why wasn't this even asked of Brown? All those are still listed as active, and yet more than three years ago, again under oath, Brown claimed all that was in the past...yet it was updated yesterday.

posted by Jo Fish on 09.09.05 at 12:18 AM





Comments:

Unbelievable. In every sense, unbelievable. Even the fake stuff isn't that impressive. Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. In Brown's case it's all 3. (Thanks, Joseph Heller.) And of course this preznit is just like his buddy. Do you think Tweety will be upset that Fearful Leader didn't appoint a big "foot" like, umm, er, Ted Nugent or someone like that instead of some Coast Gaurd Admiral we've never heard of?

posted by: Nina on 09.09.05 at 06:25 PM [permalink]



Jo this would look nice at huffpo or elsewhere. Where'd you cross-reference? All at findlaw.com?

Man John Dean should discuss this one...he does some great pieces there.

I'd rather hear him discuss Habeas Corpus.
Cheney is using it Nawlins. Door to door. Guns in people's faces. Forcible eviction their own property.

posted by: Mr.Murder on 09.10.05 at 01:41 AM [permalink]



"1975-1978; Assistant City Manager, Police, Fire and Emergency Services; Edmond,Oklahoma" Actually, it was reported by CNN and Time that he was the "assistant to the City Manager." Not the same thing accourding the folks at the city gov't building in Edmond - Brown was an INTERN.

Nice research - thanks for the extra info and the references.

posted by: lepperly.blogspot.com on 09.10.05 at 05:08 PM [permalink]






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