Former FEMA Director Michael Brown apologizes for accusing CSU graduate of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney

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By Nic Turiciano
October 23, 2012

screenshot brown1 Former FEMA Director Michael Brown apologizes for accusing CSU graduate of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney — A screenshot from Michael Brown’s Oct. 22 blog post accusing Kate Van Wyngarden of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney. The post has since been deleted.

Michael Brown, former FEMA director and 850 KOA News Radio show host, has apologized for accusing former CSU graduate student Katherine Van Wyngarden of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney.

Brown originally blogged on the 850 KOA web site yesterday that Wyngarden tweeted, “and if Mitt Romney becomes president I’ll (sic) personally assassinate himself (sic) fucking joke.”

The post has since been removed, and Brown apologized on the 850 KOA website today, writing that,

“To the Katharine Wyngarden at Colorado State University, I apologize.

I still have doubts about the misappropriation of a Twitter account, but am unable to verify one way or the other whether or not that Twitter account was misappropriated or not.”

Brown’s original post labeled Wyngarden as a current teaching assistant at CSU, though an article that ran in the Oct. 3 Collegian identifies Wyngarden as a former graduate student whose work at CSU included studying the effect of Facebook on politics.

Stay with the Collegian as this story continues to develop.

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown apologizes for accusing CSU graduate of threatening to assassinate Mitt Romney

About Nic Turiciano

Content Managing Editor Nic Turiciano is a senior journalism major. He writes about music, film, pop culture and all things associated with leisure. He began at the Collegian in the fall of 2009, is the former local director for 90.5 KCSU Fort Collins and contributor for www.theawl.com. He can be reached at entertainment@collegian.com.

Posted by Nic Turiciano on October 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm News Tagged with: 850 koa, BarackObama, Colorado State University, Facebook, fema, kate van wyngarden, Michael Brown, Mitt Romney, Twitter Add comments

michiganhunter

This is the incompetent Micheal Brown whose inactions in 2005 most probably led to the deaths of hundreds in the New Orleans area? Assassination by omission in his case. He should STFU.
C465Kelly

No one should be threathened. However, Mitt Romney is out of touch with reality, because he wants to privatize disaster response from States.
Michael _

Isn’t this the same demon that led to so many deaths in Katrina? Hasn’t he enough blood on his hands?
Leigh

People have to understand that Corporate thinking is to own everything. In Nevada, banks were burying a clause in home sales that the land beneath the house belonged to the bank. Businessmen want all the national parks to be privatized, all the social programs to be privatized. It makes perfect sense to bottom line thinking that profit can be made from disasters. How many times have no-bid mercenaries won the right to fight our wars for a hefty price, botched and had to change their name to cover their abuses. Does Blackwater, I mean Xe Services, I mean Academi ring a bell? Yeah, turning everything fro profit and a mission statement that begins…”Serving our shareholders is our first priority…” is always good for the sick, the poor, the old, the young, the devastated by a natural disaster. Let’s give it all over to the guy in the suit who can figure out how to make a buck off your tragedy.
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