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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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty
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I do want to tell you how much we appreciated watching all of the integrated forces at work as one,
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I asked for everything that we had available from the federal government...and the federal effort was just a little slow in coming. I can't understand why.
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I can not stand by while this vital operation is not being handled appropriately.
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These are our people and they're good people, ... It gets very difficult when shelters fill up. We're working hard to identify more shelters.
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I deeply appreciate Admiral Allen's sensitivity and understanding and his call to me this afternoon. I am reassured by his call as I continue to have great confidence in the Admiral's leadership.
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The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.
And I need that, for my own being,
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The financial affairs of Louisiana will be transparent and wide open as it pertains to this period of recovery, more so than it ever has been before, ... We will stand well to the expected scrutiny by the public, the Congress and the media.
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The first light of day today revealed what we had feared, ... The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
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The conditions that prompted the request ... on the same page.
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The communications network is completely gone, ... We think there may be only one major way into the city right now.
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The mayor certainly has ordered that, but the governor, and that would be me, will have to enforce it or implement it,