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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It's going to be especially difficult for them and for you, ... We're going to offer them some special opportunities.
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There was not a single individual taking a slow step in our state,
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There were failures at every level of government -- state, federal and local,
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There were a half-dozen Scottish and English theater groups who were not invited but decided to go anyway, and camped around the edges of the festival, ... A reporter saw some of the shows and said in a review that there were interesting things happening on the fringes of the festival; hence the term 'Fringe.'
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It's the only way we can re-establish government,
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It looks like we're going to bear some of the brunt of this storm. Hurricane Katrina's aiming our way.
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It looks like we're going to bear some of the brunt of this storm, ... Hurricane Katrina's aiming our way.
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It is the most important job I have right now,
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that in the end all of our people will get assistance.
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They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:
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They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers, ... Once they realized their mistake, they stopped the calls in Jefferson.
All of it is negotiable and everything is up for discussion,
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A lot of the details are not yet identified, but we want it as liberal as possible, ... We want it to work for re-employing our people.