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Politico: Brown Goes For Colts Over Saints

Michael Brown — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:18:47 +0000

Former FEMA chief Michael Brown isn't the most popular guy in New Orleans, and his Super Bowl pick won't help: "I have to go with the Colts," Brown told the POLITICO Podcast. "I just tend to follow them more and I've just never been a real Saints fan. It's nothing more than that."

"Brownie" (as Bush dubbed him) become a symbol of the federal government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. But Brown has left government work behind and now has a new career in radio: He hosts a three-hour weeknight talk show on Denver's KOA AM station.

The former Bush administration official admits he has his fair share of callers bashing him, saying that some "can't get over the whole Katrina thing." His approach with such callers is "get it out of your system and now let's talk rationally. ... They don't really hate me as much as they hate George Bush. ... It's easy to use me as a conduit to express those feelings."

But the real point of his show, he says, is give listeners "a little inside baseball about how things work in Washington.”

He has a good sense of humor about being called "Brownie" and Bush's notorious "heckuva job" comment, joking that he's trademarked the two phrases.

"It'll cost you $25 every time you say it."

He hasn't spoken to Bush in years, he says, but would welcome the former president on his program. Does the radio gig signal a return to public life, perhaps even back into government?

Not a chance, says Brown. "There would have to be two conditions: Either I'm a millionaire and my wife is deceased."

Michael Brown Joins Clear Channel's 850KOA In Denver

Michael Brown — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:29:07 +0000

Federal News Radio: What to Learn from Haiti

Michael Brown — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:16:10 +0000

Michael Brown: how to learn from Haiti

You can listen to the podcast at the bottom of the story.

January 19, 2010

By Suzanne Kubota
Senior Internet Editor
FederalNewsRadio.com

Federal workers and contractors in Haiti are calling on lessons-learned from Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami as they deliver relief.

While each response is different, they all have things in common. "It is the same everywhere: response, recovery, mitigation, and then you're planning for future disasters."

Federal News Radio talked with Michael Brown, who led early FEMA efforts during Hurricane Katrina, about what the lessons learned from this effort will be.

"You always learn things," said Brown, "what worked, what didn't work."

Comparing the aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake to Katrina's impact on New Orleans, Brown said he had a head start.

Look, in Katrina, I had a state and local government that was there. It was somewhat dysfunctional mainly, but at least they were there. In Haiti, you have no government. I mean you have no infrastructure... so our teams had to move in to an area where there was literally nobody in charge, and you had to take charge, do it diplomatically because this isn't New Orleans. This is a foreign country. And in this case we had to be very careful about how we do it and I think they did it exceptionally well.

Brown told the Daily Debrief that now is the time for local and state governments to be learning as well.

"I would think that Los Angeles and New Madrid, Missouri and all these places along all these fault lines - they should have observers there as soon as it's safe to have them there for them to watch what happens, what's working, and what's not working."

In the weeks and months ahead, Brown said that as the response phase transitions into the recovery phase, major decisions will have to be made.

"We don't know what the objectives are," said Brown. "Is it to establish a new government? Is it to establish a new economy? Those are issues that go well beyond the response and recovery efforts to, truthfully, foreign policy aspects."

Brown stressed the importance of preparing for that now, because he knows from personal experience "everyone will be watching us. We have to be very methodical. We have to be very powerful, but very smart about what we do now."

Michael Brown is now the CEO of the Next of Kin Registry.

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Neil Cavuto & Michael Brown Discuss Haiti Relief Efforts

Michael Brown — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:41:50 +0000

David Sirota, Thomas Frank & Michael Brown on AM760, Progressive Talk

Michael Brown — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:15:35 +0000

Syndicated columnist David Sirota, filling in for host Jay Marvin, along with author Tom Frank (What's Wrong With Kansas) and me in an impromptu discussion last week.

You can listen to the interview here.

Congressional Oversight of DHS. A Failure?

Michael Brown — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:41:47 +0000

Playing Identity Management & The Technologies To Identify Clean Skins

Michael Brown — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:44:00 +0000

From Homeland Security Television Channel the following is a discussion of identity theft and the technologies being used and needed to better identify security threats.

Neil Cavuto Discusses Foreclosed Homes in Disasters with Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:03:06 +0000

Neil Cavuto Interviews Michael Brown June 3, 2009 from Michael Brown on Vimeo.

Discussion of foreclosed homes in disaster areas.

Discussion of Cyber Security With ITAC Blog

Michael Brown — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:25:03 +0000

Federal News Radio 1500 AM Interview

Michael Brown — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:59:27 +0000

Federal News Radio's Tracking the Transition series interview on the forthcoming confirmation of Craig Fugate as the new FEMA Administrator can be read here.

Listen to the podcast of the interview below: