Thursday, October 20, 2005
Heckuva Job, Brownie!
by Tom Bozzo
AP: FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings:
Yeeeearrgh!
Please take any blood pressure or rage control medications you may require before reading the following. Thank you.
AP: FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings:
About the only mitigating factor is that it wouldn't necessarily have been an improvement for Brown to have been on the job, eating take out.Later, on Aug. 31, Bahamonde frantically e-mailed Brown to tell him that thousands are evacuees were gathering in the streets with no food or water and that "estimates are many will die within hours."
"Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical," Bahamonde wrote.
Less than three hours later, however, Brown's press secretary wrote colleagues to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. "He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes," wrote Brown aide Sharon Worthy.
"We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you."
Yeeeearrgh!
