A Special Group
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was made famous by the incompetence of Michael ''you're doing a heck of a job'' Brown.
''Brownie,'' as you might recall, was more interested in what he should wear for his photo-ops that what was taking place in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Now, FEMA's new director in the Denver office is Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Robert Flowers, whose legacy includes
these events:
He was criticized for maintaining his home in southern Utah while working in Salt Lake City and commuting back and forth (about a 600-mile round trip), using taxpayer money to pay for the travel expenses, of course. Highway Patrol employees complained that those lower on the totem pole than Flowers were not allowed to live far away from their work jurisdictions.
When a young man honked at Flowers because he felt Flowers had cut him off on a narrow street in the Avenues area, Flowers turned on his lights and pulled over the man, who said Flowers intimidated him because of his badge. Flowers maintained he did not intimidate the driver. He just talked to him about being courteous on the road. But how many of us get to pull somebody else over for honking at us?
When then-Gov. Mike Leavitt's sons had a loud party on the grounds of the Governor's Mansion until late at night, causing neighbors to complain, Salt Lake City Police said they couldn't do anything about it and referred the complainants to the Highway Patrol, run by Flowers. Flowers later said the Leavitt kids did no harm and everything was just fine, but kids who aren't sired by a governor routinely get cited if they have a loud party that disturbs the neighbors late at night.
That courtesy afforded to Leavitt was something the governor was used to, apparently.
Now the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he has been criticized for his private use of a government plane normally reserved for medical emergencies and for avoiding paying a large chunk of tax obligations by funneling money into a charity that actually spent little in the way of charity.
Call President Bush's appointees from Utah the ''Entitlement'' gang.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
''Brownie,'' as you might recall, was more interested in what he should wear for his photo-ops that what was taking place in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Now, FEMA's new director in the Denver office is Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Robert Flowers, whose legacy includes
these events:
That courtesy afforded to Leavitt was something the governor was used to, apparently.
Now the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he has been criticized for his private use of a government plane normally reserved for medical emergencies and for avoiding paying a large chunk of tax obligations by funneling money into a charity that actually spent little in the way of charity.
Call President Bush's appointees from Utah the ''Entitlement'' gang.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
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