Joe Allbaugh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Allbaugh
Occupation	Lobbyist
Date Of Birth	Jul 27, 1952(1952-07-27)
Age	72
Birthplace	Oklahoma
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Joe Allbaugh Biography

Joe Allbaugh is one of the most popular and richest Lobbyist who was born on July 27, 1952 in Oklahoma, United States. Joe M. Allbaugh (born July 27th 1952) is a prominent American politician in the Republican Party. After spending the majority of his life working in Oklahoma in Oklahoma and Texas, Allbaugh came to the national spotlight as a aide to Texas Governor George W. Bush and managing his 2000 presidential campaign. Allbaugh was then appointed George W. Bush’s director of his Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) starting in February 2001. He was there until FEMA’s move into the newly-created Department of Homeland Security, following which he resigned in March of 2003. He was appointed an interim director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections by the Oklahoma state Board of Corrections, effective the 11th of January the 11th of January, 2016. On July 6, 2016, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections voted unanimously to extend his term and to set his salary at $185,000. Allbaugh has stated that his office “is not a listing ship, it is a sinking ship.”

Allbaugh was appointed director for FEMA at the beginning of February in 2001. He was confirmed by Senate by a unanimous vote. As opposed to prior director Allbaugh, he wasn’t elevated to the rank of cabinet. Allbaugh received some criticism in April when he questioned the need for taxpayers to fund the costs of the reconstruction of homes that have suffered flooding damage, as they did when the Mississippi River was flooding. The issue grew into an argument over the municipal chief of Davenport, Iowa, one of the cities affected. The issue raised policy concerns which would come up again under the administration of Michael D. Brown Allbaugh, the former assistant and FEMA successor following the hurricane Katrina. In addition, the Bush administration also proposed cutting to FEMA’s budget as well as its National Flood Insurance Program. Following the devastating the devastating Tropical Storm Allison devastated Texas in June, Allbaugh said the budget cuts would impact the agency’s capability to handle any future catastrophes.

The September 11 attacks eventually led to a cabinet reorganization placing FEMA in the newly created Department of Homeland Security and Allbaugh elected to leave the agency. He made his resignation effective March 1, 2003, the date the reorganization was to take effect. Brown was an Oklahoma native and Allbaugh’s old friend from Republican state politics, first hired by Allbaugh as FEMA’s general counsel, despite having padded his legal and emergency services credentials.

Allbaugh also started his own firm, which he merged in 2004 with that of his wife Diane, who had worked as a lobbyist at the Republican firm of Barbour Griffith & Rogers during his government service. The Allbaugh Company is commonly described as a lobbying and consulting firm, although Joe Allbaugh himself says he only consults with clients on presenting their services to government agencies, and does not lobby the government directly for contracts. The Wall Street Journal compared his work to that of his predecessor at FEMA, James Lee Witt, who also went into the private sector and used the same distinction in working for clients. Major Allbaugh Company clients include The Shaw Group and Halliburton subsidiary KBR.

Then, in May of 2001 Bush declared that FEMA expanded its responsibilities to include the government’s response in the event of terrorist attack. Allbaugh explained that the mission, which was dubbed “homeland defense”, would concentrate on addressing the consequences of these attacks, but would not go on to gathering information to stop attacks from happening. The agency was one of the most prominent responders following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In the aftermath of those attacks Allbaugh had been attending an event at Big Sky, Montana, discussing emergency response. FEMA received a lot of criticism for the delays in processing requests for relief as well as its inexplicably refusals of requests for assistance to victims due to the attacks at the Twin Towers.

Joe Allbaugh Net Worth

Joe Allbaugh is one of the richest Lobbyist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Allbaugh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Allbaugh began his involvement in campaigns for political parties at 12 years old as an intern for the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. He later earned an undergraduate diploma in the field of political science at Oklahoma State University where he joined the Beta Theta Pi (BThP) Fraternity. The first time he was paid for a political position was with Oklahoma senator Henry Bellmon in 1974. After serving as a field assistant for the campaign of Reagan and Bush in 1984 Allbaugh came back to Oklahoma to assist Bellmon get elected governor of the state in. He was later appointed assistant secretary for transportation in the administration of Bellmon’s replacement David Walters.

in 1994 Allbaugh came into Texas in 1994 by George W. Bush to run his campaign for governor. Following Bush’s election, Allbaugh worked as gubernatorial chief of staff until 1999, when he changed post to become campaign manager during Bush’s bid for president. In this role, Allbaugh was an integral part of a small group of aides, along and Karl Rove and Karen Hughes which the media called”the “Iron Triangle”. Allbaugh described the trio as “the brain, the brawn and the bite”, and he was the brawn , standing at 6-foot-4 inches tall and 275 pounds.

When the election results turned into a dispute over Florida ballot counts, Allbaugh went to Florida to run the post-election operation there while other advisers remained behind in Texas. After the legal maneuverings played out with Bush prevailing, he named Allbaugh as his nominee to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency on January 4, 2001.

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Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Joseph Allbaugh requested a $23 million supplemental appropriation to get through until June 30. 2016. The supplemental appropriation was needed to pay for-profit prison corporations CoreCivic and GEO Group to hold overflow inmates, salaries for uniformed staff, which are extremely low, and prisoner medical bills. The DOC must adhere to mandated standards regarding inmate services to remain in constitutional compliance. With the threat it would lock out 2,600 Oklahoma prison inmates, the owner of Oklahoma’s largest private prison successfully lobbied the legislature for a raise this year, the Frontier reports. The GEO Group’s sprawling Lawton Correctional Facility holds about 10 percent of Oklahoma’s prison population. With Oklahoma’s prisons operating at 114 percent capacity, the private corrections company has the bargaining power to ask the state for more money. In June, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections signed a five-year deal with The GEO Group to house inmates in Lawton that contained a rate increase worth an estimated $2.8 million. Florida’s GEO Group hasn’t consistently met the terms of its Oklahoma contract. The for-profit prison operator frequently failed its contractual contract violations at its Lawton, Oklahoma prison, one that houses some of Oklahoma’s most dangerous prisoners. The Oklahoma DOC notified GEO regarding multiple violations at the Lawton Correctional Facility in 2017 and 2018, including the delayed releases of several offenders, the improper use of restraints, missing or improperly recorded prisoner counts, and failure to adhere to medication and nursing protocols. In 2017, the DOC fined GEO Group $380,000 for delaying the release of a Lawton prisoner by 304 late subsequent to the modification of his sentence. The GEO Group has a history of problems with such improper releases at Lawton, said Allbaugh: “Private prisons do not run their facilities to our standards, but they are supposed to adhere to our operational protocols.” “The only way you can get their attention is financial sanctions.” On April 17, 2019, Allbaugh reported the DOC is “getting closer every day” to obtaining the equipment necessary to resume the death penalty, although no firm date has been set for executions to resume. The DOC said in 2018 it will replace lethal injection with “nitrogen hypoxia.” a procedure which supposedly will painlessly smother an unconscious person. Without such a machine, the DOC has been unable to resume executions that had been horribly botched in recent years. Richard Glossip, whose guilt has been widely questioned, has had his execution postponed numerous times due to faulty protocols.

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