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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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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We need to pray, of course, very strongly, that the hurricane force would diminish,
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While we will hope and pray that Rita does not gain strength and threaten our coast, the prudent course of action is to prepare for the worst, ... every available resource is being put into action to deal with this potential threat to our coast.
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We'll be well. We can do it. I see signs of hope all around us. Lights are coming on, and things are happening all around.
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Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking,
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States are not in a position to absorb additional costs of this magnitude,
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State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,
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Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.
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The announcement today from HUD and Homeland Security about rental assistance and housing vouchers may certainly address the needs of our friends in Alabama and Mississippi, ... But it does little for Louisiana citizens who want to come home, and we'd like our citizens to be able to come to Louisiana for this interim period.
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We will have to have the trained work force if the industry is going to be permanent, ... We don't want them to ship that beautiful film shot in Louisiana back to California for post-production work.
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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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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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To recover from the trauma of this devastation we cannot simply re-create what those storms destroyed,