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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Let us explain what we are talking about. In the press today there was an e-mail exchange revealed between the…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2005
Let us explain what we are talking about. In the press today there was an e-mail exchange revealed between the spokesperson of FEMA and then Under Secretary Brown where he was appalled that Secretary Chertoff had made him, I think it was the point person, I forgot the title he was given, in the aftermath of Katrina. But he looked at it as a slight, an insult, and somehow a demotion from his position as Under Secretary. In the devastation and aftermath of Katrina, is that what we want the FEMA Director to be worried about, what he is called?
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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