The part near the end of Bahamonde's e-mail didn't show up in the national MSM yesterday--it's the funniest and most damning part.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/102105/new_faulted001.shtmlBut the e-mails show the staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency seemed more concerned about getting dinner for Brown in Baton Rouge while Bahamonde was struggling to get food and water for the multitudes in the Superdome.
"It is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner," FEMA press secretary Sharon Brown wrote in an e-mail, with misspellings, two days after the storm hit.
"Gievn that Baton Rouge is back to normal, restaurants are getting busy. He needs much more that 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise, followed by the wait service from the restaurant staff, eating etc.," Worthy wrote.
Bahamonde responded "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!" in an e-mail to another FEMA staffer, adding that he had just finished eating a packaged meal-ready-to-eat along with thousands of others in the Superdome.
"Maybe tonight I will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep," Bahamonde wrote. "I will hope her wait at Ruth Chris is short."
Edited to add verbatim text (following Pirate Smile's post):
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! No won't go any further, too easy of a target. Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move my pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep.