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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This country and its economy must have a vibrant commercial center at the mouth of the Mississippi River, its most important waterway, ... Katrina and Rita brought our economy to its knees.
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This is a scene we experienced with Katrina. Katrina was going to Florida for several days, and (then) gave us 48 hours to move,
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This is a substantial package of initiatives that will help our families, our business and our state recover from Katrina and Rita,
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Katrina and Rita brought our people and our economy to its knees.
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Katrina and Rita altered the fabric of our society,
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he has recognized that Katrina was no ordinary hurricane.
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For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.
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We're urging people in the Katrina impact areas to be very, very cautious.
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I'm very encouraged by the messages I got,
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In Cameron, there's really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated.
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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.
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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,