From the Washington Post

"After leaving FEMA in March 2003, Allbaugh, who managed the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, founded Allbaugh Co., a lobbying-consulting firm with many clients in the disaster-relief business.

Among those clients are: the KBR division of Haliburton; TruePosition, a manufacturer of wireless location products, services and devices; the Shaw Group, a provider of engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and the private sector; and UltraStrip, which is marketing the first water filtration system approved by the Environmental Protection Agency"

It was Allbaugh who brought Brown to the attention of Bush. I think they were college roomates.

Some journalists are calling Allbaugh a 'disaster whore'. I tend to agree. As usual, you will notice that Halliburton (Cheney) is also involved in this.