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
aiming bear brunt hurricane looks
It looks like we're going to bear some of the brunt of this storm, ... Hurricane Katrina's aiming our way.
adequate partisan
It's (federal response) going to be more adequate as we go on, ... I do not feel partisan difference.
business incentives order workers
It's very important to have incentives for our workers to return, and in order to do that, we have to have incentives for business to return,
I want the world to know what we know: We are brave, we are resilient, and we will prevail.
allowing focus matters urgent
It will be narrowly focused, allowing legislators to focus on urgent matters
impossible structures
It's impossible for us to say how many structures can be salvaged.
food phones power trees
The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.
although finding lives predicted
We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.
life
I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you.
civilized goes left running
When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.
greater revealed totally
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
witnessed
We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.
buy fuel gasoline stranded
There are no fuel supplies, ... You can't buy gasoline at will to get in and out. You may end up stranded on the highway.
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This program will have a dramatic effect on lowering the cost of capital for companies of all sizes that invest or reinvest in the affected area,