While you’re busy wondering about Attorney General Peter Nickles’s political future, don’t forget our city’s other least trustworthy public servant! Reviving the local story that rocked early July, the Washington Post has obtained a bunch of old emails from the office of Ward 8 D.C. Council member Marion Barry, which show that Barry and his staff complained about the quality of the work his ex-girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, was doing for them at the time.

Barry’s complaints included Watts-Brighthaupt’s spelling, grammar, tendency to fall behind schedule and failure to be available during business hours. The e-mails appear to confirm that Barry and Watts-Brighthaupt traveled together to Las Vegas and Memphis. Although the city paid for Barry’s airfare, the government did not foot the bill for Watts-Brighthaupt and did not pay for a $736 spa visit at the Paris hotel during their May trip to Las Vegas, travel records show.

Delonta Brighthaupt, Watts-Brighthaupt’s ex-husband, also sent an email to Barry accusing him of attempting to use taxpayer dollars to keep a leash on Watts-Brighthaupt. According to the Post, the message bears the subject line: “Donna knows better, and will not get caught up with your falsifying contracts!!”

The D.C. Council has since hired independent attorney Robert Bennett to investigate the $60,000 contract that Barry awarded to Watts-Brighthaupt.