DNC gives 1st annual "Brownie" award to George Deutsch

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http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/inaugural_brown.php

Inaugural "Brownie" Award Goes to George Deutsch

This Week's Winner: George Deutsch

""Named after Bush crony and former FEMA Director Michael Brown, the Brownie Awards will be given to Bush Administration officials who exemplify the highest levels of cronyism, ineptitude and incompetence."

Washington, DC – The first recipient of the DNC's Brownie Award is George Deutsch, a spokesman for NASA. Deutsch first gained notoreity when it was reported that he tried to muzzle NASA chief climatologist, James Hansen, after he publicly disagreed with the Bush Administration's stance on global warming. Deutsch resigned this week after it was revealed that he lied about his undergraduate credentials."

Bush Press Officer Lied On Resume; Pressured Career Scientists. "George Deutsch, the 24-year-old junior spokesman at NASA's Washington headquarters who joined the agency after working on President Bush’s re-election campaign, resigned late Tuesday. The rapidly unfolding controversy in which he became a figure was triggered by a Jan. 29 report in the New York Times in which NASA's chief climatologist, James Hansen, and unnamed others claimed the White House was attempting to restrain their comments about the consequences of global warming. The resignation followed new reports that his résumé falsely claimed an undergraduate degree in journalism from Texas A&M University." "