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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We respect the work you have done. You have been in our prayers. ... It grieves my soul to say that you're coming back to a Louisiana that is not whole. ... There is a lot of work to do, but we are up to the task.
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Were finding a mighty lot of people, ... We think there are hundreds more.
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We were begging for more resources, and you know, eventually, we got enough resources. It just took more days than we wanted it to take.
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We've got an engineering nightmare trying to fill the breach of the levee where the waters are pouring into the city. I think they've been working on it all night, and they'll continue to work on it all day today.
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We have no counts whatsoever, but we know many lives have been lost.
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When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.
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We are praying that the hurricane dissipates or that it weakens. This state can barely stand what happened to it.
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There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,
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The facts will speak for themselves. We will tell our story when the time is appropriate.
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We still have great needs in our state, ... I do believe Congress will respond to the issue at hand.
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We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.
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This special session will move us toward bringing our families and our businesses home and bringing Louisiana back,
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The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.
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We know many lives have been lost, ... Those numbers will be forthcoming as the process clarifies, but these are very difficult times for Louisiana.