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
asking emergency employees essential federal financial government help local pay public verge
Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,
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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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I'm asking our citizens to please understand the seriousness of our situation, ... ... It is too dangerous to come home.
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I'm asking all of you to do your very best to get as many people to safe ground as possible. It occurs to me that a lot of people went to bed last night thinking that hurricane was going to Florida, ... I got a report at 7 o'clock that there were about 700 people doing Little League ball in the New Orleans area.
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This is a unique situation, and that's why we're asking for a unique response,
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As we asked southeast Louisiana to evacuate in advance of Katrina, and probably one million people or more evacuated safely, we are asking the same southwest Louisiana,
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It is a record for any state to see that kind of growth.
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people are going to have to draw on their inner strength like we've never, ever had to do before. It's going to be, in some neighborhoods, total rebuilding.
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We can use the Astrodome for a place for our folks to begin to normalize their lives, ... This will help us immensely.
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Well, it's a logistical nightmare, ... We have identified other shelters in other parts of the state. Communities are ready to receive these people to help them out.
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We have a huge problem and until we have that breach under control, we will continue to have a problem,
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We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,
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We will restore law and order, ... What angers me the most is that disasters like this often bring out the worst in people. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior.
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Rita has Louisiana in her sights. Head north. You cannot go east, you cannot go west. If you know the local roads that go north, take those.