Butch Kinerney is key national spokesperson for the National Flood Insurance Program and served as acting press secretary for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Kinerney rose to the position immediately following landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. During Katrina and the ongoing recovery in the Gulf Coast, he's been quoted more than 30,000 times since Katrina's first landfall in Florida and throughout the tumultuous fallout from FEMA's response efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi. He served as acting press secretary during the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response Michael Brown and through the appointment of R. David Paulison as the new FEMA chief. He is also a speaker and is currently working on his first boo