Get off of Brownie's Back, Bahamonde

Marty Bahamonde is not merely a regional FEMA director and the only FEMA operative to set foot inside the Superdome during Katrina. He is a tattle-tale, rat, snitch. He testified before the senate and released highly classified e-mails implying that Michael Brown was more concerned with eating a leisurely dinner than he was with coordinating federal relief for the victims of Katrina.

A complaining and helpless Bahamonde sent the following blackberry message to Brown

From: Bahamonde. Marty
To: 'michael.d.brown~dhs.gov'
Subject New orleans
Wednesday, August 31,2005 1120 AM
Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. Here some things you might not know. Hotels are kicking people out, thousands gathering in the streets with no food or water. Hundreds still being rescued from homes, The dying patients at the DMAT tent being medivac. Estimates are many will die within hours. Evacuation in process. Plans developing for dome evacuation but hotel situation adding to problem. We are out of food and running out of water at the dome, plans in works to address the critical need. FEMA staff is OK and holding own. DMAT staff working in deplorable conditions. The Sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out. Phone connectivity impossible More later
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Brown's press secretary did not respond to this "New Orleans" e-mail because she was busy coordinating Brown's dining, as we see in this e-mail with the subject "Scarborough." sent 3 hours later and forwarded to Bahamonde by Cindy Taylor, FEMA deputy director of public affairs

Subject: Scarborough
Please schedule Joe Scarborough this eveninq for 9pmCST period. Spoke with his producer and told him to call you. Mr. Brown wants to do this one. Also, it is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner. Given 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 wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.
Sharon Worthy
Press Secretary

Girly boy Bahamonde then wrote the following cry baby e-mail to Cindy Taylor

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 the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep, but instead I will hope her wait at Ruth Christ is short.

Bahamonde did have the decency to add

But I know she is stressed so I won't make a big deal about it and you shouldn't either.

If Katrina has taught us anything, it is that you cannot coordinate a federal response to a national disaster on an empty stomach.