"I oversaw 150 disasters"....as ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER in Edmund OK,pop

[Proud2BAmurkin]

population 72,000

on edit: assistant TO THE city manager

[Skidmore]

1. WhiteOut spills in the office probably.

[babylonsister]

2. That's too precious! What a guy! LOL! nt

[ret5hd]

3. wow...that Edmond must be one dangerous place!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Hey, be nice. You know how many puppies there were? talk about

disasters in the making! If you did not watch where you were walking, man, you were in trouble.

[Nordmadr]

5. Wasn't that "Assistant to the City Manager"? Not really like his

deputy from what I recall.

Olaf

[Proud2BAmurkin]

15. corrected

thanks!

[Tatiana]

17. In his mind, he probably thinks he was the assistant city manager. n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. you mean managing the city's assistant with 150 disasters?

What a complete doofus.

[stopbush]

6. "And those are just the ones directly attributable to bush!"

[Tatiana]

7. But I thought he was the assistant to the assistant city manager??

As in an administrative assistant?

<snip>

Before joining FEMA, his only previous stint in emergency management, 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." In fact, according to Claudia Deakins, head of public relations for the city of Edmond, 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." Brown did do a good job at his humble position, however, according to his boss. "Yes. Mike Brown worked for me. He was my administrative assistant. He was a student at Central State University," recalls former city manager Bill Dashner. "Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html

Ahhhhhhhhh well, I feel a lot safer knowing that! Don't you?

[Taxloss]

8. Like that time the printer ran out of toner halfway through a big job ...

And the stationers was closed ...

And that other time we found the coffee pot had a crack in it ... the horror, the horror.

[ET Awful]

10. I even had to decipher what the hell PC Load Letter meant

:evilgrin:

[donheld]

9. No, he dropped a box of paper clips

:eyes:

[Obamarama]

11. I was responsible for crisis/emergency communications in a city of 80,000

Reported directly to the City Manager and Deputy City Manager. In the five years in that position, we didn't have a single disaster that required deploying the Emergency Communications Center or a Joint Information Center with neighboring jurisdictions. We had a couple drills every years, but never the real thing.

I could understand one or two, MAYBE even 5 since OK is in Tornado Alley...but 150????? Don't think so, Brownie.

[Mabus]

12. To be fair, he said "presidentially declared disasters"

"I have overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I am doing. And I think I do a pretty darn good job of it," he (Brown) said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701046.html?nav=hcmodule

However, this could include the pretzel incident.

[KatyaR]

13. I lived in Edmond, Oklahoma, for twenty years, 1981-

2001. I can assure you that we never had 150 disasters, unless he's counting county or state-wide disasters, but I don't think he would be overseeing anything past the city level if he was assistant city manager.

There was a very bad tornado that came through in the 80s and destroyed a large part of town--I would count that.

Would you count the Edmond Post Office "Massacre" where a postal worker killed 14 (? count) employees and then killed himself? Maybe.

Would you count the Murrah bombing (Edmond is a suburb of OKC)? Maybe.

There's three. Where's the other 147?

I wish I was in contact with more of my Edmond ham radio buddies who work emergency response in the area--they probably remember him, as Edmond hams work very closely with the city in those situations.

I'd like to see a list of the "disasters" he worked.

On edit: So according to his resume he was there in the 70s. I was in school in Stillwater at the time. There may have been a few tornadoes, but nothing major and certainly nothing as bad as the examples I cited earlier from the 80s.

[lpbk2713]

14. "And I'll never forget that time I spilled my Slurpee all over my desk."

:eyes:

[kikiek]

16. Geez how many of the disasters was he responsible for? Probably started

out as one that snowballed after he "helped".

[david_vincent]

18. By the same logic,

I've overseen thousands of disasters -- every one that's happened in my lifetime, I've looked it over.

[Marnieworld]

20. I thought I read that that position was the level of an intern

When all of those articles came out about his padded resume they interviewed his former boss and that's how it was described. The man is a lunatic.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. No, he didn't say that. He said he oversaw 150 disasters as the shrub's

FEMA director.

As assistant to the city manager of oklahoma, he only cited seeing a house burn down.