James Lee Witt works for Louisiana; to lobby for Allstate
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former FEMA director hired by Louisiana to help lead its Hurricane Katrina recovery effort has registered to lobby for an insurance company that wants Congress to create a natural...
View ArticleExperts: Bush already has enough military powers, he just failed to use them
The article "Key military help for victims of Hurricane Katrina was delayed" says that Bush already had enough military powers to do what was necessary, he - and Michael Chertoff - simply failed to act...
View ArticleBubba blasts Bush over Katrina, poverty, lack of omnipotence...
Bill Clinton has criticized Our Leader Bush for his response to Katrina on Sunday's "This Week". Your job is to determine why. Is this an attempt to help heal the Bush administration, with perhaps...
View ArticleJames Lee Witt uncomfortable with wider military role in disasters
A local paper has a subscriber-only article:A former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday that he's uncomfortable with President Bush's proposal to give the armed forces a...
View ArticleJames Lee Witt not lobbying for Allstate
For now that is: "Witt's firm postpones Allstate job".The firm counseling Gov. Kathleen Blanco on hurricane relief efforts has temporarily set aside another client -- the nation's largest private...
View Article9/3: Blanco hires James Lee Witt
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Arkansan James Lee Witt, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bill Clinton, joined the Louisiana government Saturday to help direct the...
View ArticleNYT: James Lee Witt still cleaning up
The NYT offers a report on James Lee Witt in "FEMA Leader Under Clinton Makes It Pay":...Soon after the storm hit, the State of Louisiana signed up with Witt Associates, a disaster consulting firm....
View ArticleThe James Lee Witt, Innovative Emergency Management, Hurricane Pam axis
As previously discussed, JLW was originally part of team put together by IEM to create a "Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan" for New Orleans. The June 3, 2004 press release on this is here:IEM,...
View ArticleFEMA wants $3.7 billion from Louisiana for services rendered
FEMA has sent LA a bill for "its share of hurricane relief". Governor Kathleen Blanco says she can't pay it....Staffers for the governor "about fell over" Wednesday night when they received the Federal...
View ArticleKathleen Blanco is MOVING MOUNTAINS
On September 4, Kim Fuller, press consultant from Witt Associates, sent an email to various Kathleen Blanco aides. It included the following:"Gov. Blanco might dress down a bit and look like she has...
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