Brown speaking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in May 2010 declared : " This is exactly what they want , because now he can pander to the environmentalists and say , ' I 'm gon na shut it down because it 's too dangerous , ' " ... " This president has never supported big oil , he 's never supported offshore drilling , and now he has an excuse to shut it back down . " Brown criticized President Obama for responding to Hurricane Sandy faster than he responded to the attacks at Benghazi . He also stated that he thought that President Obama was overplaying the likely threat from Sandy , and that the storm had hardly formed . He also noted " The storm was still forming , people were debating whether it was going to be as bad as expected , or not , and I noted that the president should have let the governors and mayors deal with the storm until it got closer to hitting the coastal areas along the Washington , D.C.-New York City corridor . " In an interview with Denver Westword , Brown said : " One thing President Obama 's gon na be asked is , why did he jump on Hurricane Sandy so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in ... Benghazi , he went to Las Vegas ? Why was this so quick ? ... At some point , somebody 's going to ask that question . " Brown and his wife Tamara have two children . After leaving federal service they moved to Boulder , Colorado , where they reside
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Michael D. Brown