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 will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.
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We cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed, ... We must make the new Louisiana, smarter, safer and stronger.
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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 silver lining of Katrina's storm clouds is the historic opportunity that we have now to start anew,
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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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While the eye of the storm is now projected to go a little more westerly and into the Texas area, it is strengthening, ... That still could give us some impact on the eastern side of the storm. We are watching it and we want our citizens to watch it very carefully.
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I think this storm is bigger than anything we have dealt with before. This is not a minor problem.
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The effort to restore our state requires a daring, yet realistic plan. A plan based on input from people in all walks of life. A plan created from the ground up. A plan driven by local needs. A plan inspired by innovation, ... We cannot simply re-create what the storms destroyed. We must make the new Louisiana smarter, safer and stronger.
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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,