James Lee Witt, the FEMA director during the Clinton administration, lost his bid to become an Arkansas congressman. He was defeated on Tuesday.
I had hopes that we'd have at least one emergency manager serving in Congress. Even serving in the minority party, someone with a clue is better than having no one today — that I know of.
Who wants to be the next emergency manager to run for Congress?
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
