FEMA leadership unimaginably awful
Excerpts from FEMA officials’ emails, as reported by the Associated Press:
Sharon Worthy, Brown’s press secretary, to Cindy Taylor, FEMA deputy director of public affairs, and others, Aug. 31, 2 p.m. “Also, it is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner. Gievn (sic) that Baton Rouge is back to normal, restaurants are getting busy. He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc.” Bahamonde (regional director for New England) to Taylor and Michael Widomski, public affairs, Aug. 31, 2:44 p.m. “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.
Wow.
If you followed the link, you might note that the first message about conditions at the Superdome is from Aug 28th, and Michael Brown claimed he didn’t learn about the Superdome until Thursday, Sept 1st. Nice.
