Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Blanco
Kathleen Babineaux Blancoserved from January 2004 to January 2008 as the 54th governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to have been elected as governor of Louisiana...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 December 1942
CityNew Iberia, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm asking our citizens to please understand the seriousness of our situation, ... ... It is too dangerous to come home.
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I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area.
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If there's a loss of life, it will be minimal,
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If you help us with these incentives, we believe we only have to step aside and let business
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We saw block after block, neighborhood and neighborhood inundated, ... It's just heartbreaking.
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We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report, unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time.
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We also know that our revenue stream is probably going to have a $750 million to perhaps $1 billion deficit because the southeast region produced an extraordinary amount of our revenue stream and that is in hard state dollars,
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We will have to have the trained work force if the industry is going to be permanent, ... We don't want them to ship that beautiful film shot in Louisiana back to California for post-production work.
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expressed his confidence that our federal partners are working hard to quickly recover all bodies.
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We can't replace the hopes and dreams of our people, but we can help them to build new ones,
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We will do what it takes to bring law and order to our area. I'm just furious. It's intolerable.
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To recover from the trauma of this devastation we cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed,
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The radio system that is currently operational in the greater New Orleans area was designed to support 800 users; there are currently 2,500 users. To address the radio communications requirements, we need additional frequencies,
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This will connect the benefits to the families,