A bit tongue in cheek, but fun to consider. Great timing for
Emergency Management magazine to put this online between the two presidential conventions. See
Presidential Prognostications Shaping Our Disaster Future.
There goes any hope of my being the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator!
Those emergency managers who decry any involvement in politics are not recognizing that it is disasters, followed by "political" action that drives our programs. I guess "it is what it is."
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
