Bush's FEMA Rejected Davis on Aid to Clear Trees

[MrBenchley]

Appalling mismanagement...what else is new?

"SACRAMENTO — The Bush administration took six months to evaluate Gov. Gray Davis' emergency request last spring for $430 million to clear dead trees from fire-prone areas of Southern California.
The request was finally denied Oct. 24, only hours before wildfires roared out of control in what has become the largest fire disaster in California history.
Members of the California congressional delegation were informed of FEMA's decision in an e-mail last Friday, after some of the fires were already burning. Kolton said Davis' Sacramento office was also notified of the decision verbally and in a faxed letter.
In that letter FEMA offered no explanation for why it had taken six months to rule."

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-fema31oct31,1,443306.story

You might recall in the opening days of this unelected drunk's misadministration, he canceled an earthquake preparedness program just hours before a massive earthquake struck Seattle...