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
anyone city great
To anyone who suggests this great city should not be rebuilt, we will rebuild,
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There will be plenty of soldiers in the city to handle whatever Rita dishes out.
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Quality education is the measure of strong and healthy communities, ... If we really expect a rebirth in the City of New Orleans, a quality public school system is absolutely essential.
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New Orleans and the surrounding parishes may be ravaged, but our spirit remains intact, ... To anyone who even suggests that this great city should not be rebuilt, hear this and hear it well: We will rebuild.
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Three hundred of the Arkansas National Guard have landed in the city of New Orleans,
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The communications network is completely gone, ... We think there may be only one major way into the city right now.
encouraged messages
I'm very encouraged by the messages I got,
hardly
In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated.
ask blessings people state
I know the people of this state have been through a lot. We ask for God's blessings on them and their families.
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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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It's not going to be a pretty sight. My next big worry is contamination and disease.
bit conditions living moving trying
Everybody's scared, worried, desperate, and the living conditions there are horrible, so we're moving them out and trying to give them a little bit of ease,
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The biggest concern is that this whole situation is totally overwhelming. I know the desperation of all of the folks who had evacuated. I know they desperately want to get in. In most cases, it is totally impossible for them to get in. The streets are inundated with water. The devastation is vast. And there's really -- there's nothing they can do.
locked troops
These troops are battle-tested. They have M-16s and are locked and loaded.