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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As we asked southeast Louisiana to evacuate in advance of Katrina, and probably one million people or more evacuated safely, we are asking the same southwest Louisiana,
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Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,
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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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This is a unique situation, and that's why we're asking for a unique response,
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I know the pain Oliver is in, and I know the pain our citizens are in, ... We just have to keep on asking for patience and asking them to endure, even more than they have already endured. These people coming in have been in stress since Monday. It is Saturday. Our heart goes out to them.
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We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.
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These storms knocked us down, but they didn't knock us out, ... And with your help and support, we will come back stronger and more prosperous than before.
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The shelters will end up probably without electricity or with minimum electricity from generators in the end. There may be intense flooding that will be not in our control which would be ultimately the most dangerous situation that many of our people could face.
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The situation is untenable, ... At first light, the devastation is greater than our worst fear. It's just totally overwhelming ... heartbreaking.
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The situation deteriorated on Monday and on Wednesday, it became untenable,
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The simple fact is that we needed something as simple and basic as buses delivered in a timely fashion from FEMA in order to save lives. They didn't do that,
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The silver lining of Katrina's storm clouds is the historic opportunity that we have now to start anew,
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is not just a game but a very symbolic event and we should encourage as many people as possible to go.