He pulled a George O’Leary. That’s enough.

In 2001, George O’Leary seemed a perfect fit for the job of head football coach at Notre Dame. I mean, forget his coaching ability, what better Irish Catholic name can you possibly come up with? This was a match made in heaven. Then the facts that he didn’t actually have a Master’s and wasn’t really a three-year letterman surfaced, and Notre Dame bid him good-bye.

Mike Brown claimed to be an assistant city manager (he was the city manager’s administrative assistant) and to have authority over the city’s emergency services division (he had no authority over anyone, the city says).

Anyone trying to defend him in the face of that has to answer this question: if people who do this aren’t fit to coach football, how can they possibly be fit to oversee the spending of tax dollars?

Go home now, Mr Brown. It’s time to write your book.