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I just hope Jared Kushner has time to run FEMA after we get fucked here in Texas (Original Post) elehhhhna Aug 2017 OP
I bet no one has thought about getting ice and water ready. Demtexan Aug 2017 #1
" you're doing a great job brownie" California_Republic Aug 2017 #2
Don't worry, Trumpy has a box of play doh to deliver. FSogol Aug 2017 #3
Is there anyone in charge of FEMA? n/t Retrograde Aug 2017 #4
A terrifying thought mcar Aug 2017 #5
Why would Jared be concerned about Texas? gratuitous Aug 2017 #6
The new FEMA head will have to hit the ground running. trof Aug 2017 #7
BREAKING NEWS for Encouragement: tosh Aug 2017 #8

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Why would Jared be concerned about Texas?
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 04:31 PM
Aug 2017

Is there a Trump-brand property in danger of getting soaked? If not, the White House really isn't the place for your parochial concerns.

tosh

(4,423 posts)
8. BREAKING NEWS for Encouragement:
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 06:12 PM
Aug 2017

Trump's FEMA Director Faces His First Test
Brock Long's drive to change U.S. disaster response crosses paths with Hurricane Harvey.
By Christopher Flavelle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/hurricane-harvey-trump-s-fema-director-faces-his-first-test

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Long's appointment was welcomed by experts on extreme weather, who praised him as neither overtly ideological nor hostile to the mission of the agency he was chosen to lead. Before being appointed to the top job, he was director of Alabama's Emergency Management Agency from 2008 to 2011, as well as a regional hurricane program manager for FEMA.

"He is a rare Trump appointee who is a well-known professional in the field in which he was appointed," said Eli Lehrer, president of the R Street Institute, a Washington research group that promotes market-based solutions to climate change. "Every part of his reputation suggests he’ll take a careful, deliberate, technocratic approach to the job."

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Who knew??

And who chose him??

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