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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I do want to tell you how much we appreciated watching all of the integrated forces at work as one,
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State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,
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Some things worked right this time, ... We learned a lot of lessons from our previous experience with Katrina. Our communications network stayed up.
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I have charged these two distinguished leaders to harness the energy of the entire board and put forth strong, aggressive initiatives, ... The Louisiana Recovery Authority will help me bring the entire state together in the effort to rebuild Louisiana. It will be a unified voice with the single focus on rebuilding. It will show the nation that we can work across all of the old boundaries that once kept us apart.
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Obviously it is a lot easier this time because the assets have not left Louisiana, ... So I believe that what we are preparing for will give us the strength to take care of the situation, however it works itself out.
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It's very important to have incentives for our workers to return, and in order to do that, we have to have incentives for business to return,
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I have called for this special meeting to begin immediately the work of rebuilding our state and restoring our people,
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A lot of the details are not yet identified, but we want it as liberal as possible, ... We want it to work for re-employing our people.
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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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Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking,
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I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.
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By comparison to New York's economic recovery challenges, Louisiana's situation is vaster, more complex and will be more protracted,
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They've been running buses in through the night. We're going to get them out, either by boat, lift them out by helicopter, or if we can walk them to the buses, we'll do it. Whatever is necessary, whatever measure is necessary is what we'll do.:
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I'm very encouraged by the messages I got,