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 also know that our revenue stream is probably going to have a $750 million to perhaps $1 billion deficit because the southeast region produced an extraordinary amount of our revenue stream and that is in hard state dollars,
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expressed his confidence that our federal partners are working hard to quickly recover all bodies.
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We've got to make their living conditions a little more decent. A lot more decent, as a matter of fact, because living conditions in the dome are deteriorating rapidly -- no power, no water, hard to get food, supplies in.
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We have a tough, tough people, ... We party hard, we work hard ... we know we can get through this.
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In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated.
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These are our people and they're good people, ... It gets very difficult when shelters fill up. We're working hard to identify more shelters.
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This will connect the benefits to the families,
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We will do what it takes to bring law and order to our area. I'm just furious. It's intolerable.
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We saw block after block, neighborhood and neighborhood inundated, ... It's just heartbreaking.
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We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees. We heard a report, unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time.
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To recover from the trauma of this devastation we cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed,
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The radio system that is currently operational in the greater New Orleans area was designed to support 800 users; there are currently 2,500 users. To address the radio communications requirements, we need additional frequencies,
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To anyone who suggests this great city should not be rebuilt, we will rebuild,
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We cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed, ... We must make the new Louisiana, smarter, safer and stronger.