According to Brown, who famously dubbed "Brownie" by President Bush,
it's unlikely that Hurricane Sandy will dramatically impact the
presidential race and news coverage in the final week of the election.
However, he has some words of advice for the president and his
reelection team.
Holding a press conference at FEMA yesterday
might have been a bit premature, given that the most serious impacts of
the storm are not expected until later today, he feels.
"Here's my concern," Brown says. "People in the northeast are already beginning to blow it off....
[New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg has shut down the
subway...[launched] evacuations.... I don't object...they should be
doing all of that. But in the meantime, various news commentators...[and
others] in New York are shrugging their shoulders, saying, 'What's this
all about?' It's premature [when] the brunt of the storm won't happen
until later this afternoon."
Brown says he understands why the president might have chosen to have a news conference earlier rather than later.
"My guess is, he wants to get ahead of it -- he doesn't want anybody
to accuse him of not being on top of it or not paying attention or
playing politics in the middle of it," he says. "He probably figured
Sunday was a good day to do a press conference."
No comments:
Post a Comment