Louisiana's leading chief executive is thought of more often as a kindly grandmother than a savvy business executive. And that plays right into her hands. People have always underestimated me, Blanco said with a laugh. Isn't it great? I always give them a surprise.
Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Opening legislative fiscal session remarks
NOTE: The President spoke at 7:55 p.m. at Dooky [Leah Chase]'s Restaurant. In his remarks, he referred to Leah Chase, owner, Dooky Chase's Restaurant; Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Senator Mary L. Landrieu, and Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana; Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans, LA; and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso R. Jackson. Also participating in the dinner were Donald E.
Before Hurricane Katrina, FEMA had already asserted that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen but refused to take any action to minimize the human hazards and economic risks. FEMA conducted drilling exercises under fictional hurricanes "Zebra" and "Pam" soon after Bush 43 stole the White House. Inexplicably, this hurricane was revitalized and sped off to New Orleans, hundreds of miles away. This diversion avoided a headache for Jeb Bush. If Hurricane Katrina had hit Florida solidly, Bush 43 would have been in Florida within five hours rather than the five days it took for him to arrive in New Orleans. Given this backdrop, it is excruciatingly disturbing that Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana would issue a shoot-to-kill policy for military personnel and for Bush 43 to d...
Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said today the federal environmental assessment for oil and gas offshore lease sale is not good enough. I was very disappointed to learn that the environmental assessment for Western Gulf Lease Sale 200 is woefully insufficient to address the needs of the state, Blanco said. On May 18, I directed officials at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to detail these concerns in a letter to the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of Interior.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of members of the National Bar Association (NBA), one of the nation's premier legal organizations, will gather in New Orleans from August 9-13 to attend seminars and major presentations in conjunction with the organization's 85th annual conference. On Tuesday morning August 10, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Lieutenant General (Retired) Russel Honore and former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, will participate in a panel discussion entitled "5 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Are We Any Better Prepared for Disasters?" In addition to the mistakes made and lessons learned during Hurricane Katrina, the current Gulf Oil Spill disaster will also be discussed.
Pointing to the fact that Black voters residing in New Orleans' parishes were displaced "through no fault of their own," often "forced to move several times, as late as March 15th due to FEMA hotel evictions, and have not received information concerning the upcoming elections," [Bruce S. Gordon] believes that it would be a colossal abrogation of peoples' constitutional rights, particularly since Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater "has no mechanism in place to reach these voters with information. Governor [Kathleen Babineaux Blanco], we have come too far to turn back now on voting rights," said Gordon. "You and many other elected officials have relied on and benefited from Black voters' willingness to engage in the political process and support positive public policy initiatives. T...
Recent efforts to compare the early response of President Obama to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with the early response of President George W. Bush to Hurricane Katrina are unfair to Mr. Bush. Although it is seldom noted in articles critiquing the response to Katrina, Mr. Bush took the unprecedented step of declaring a state of emergency more than two days before the hurricane hit land. The dismal response to the declared state of emergency by then Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin cannot be blamed on Mr. Bush, and it was Monday-morning quarterbacking to blame him for not foreseeing the full extent of the colossal failures at the local level.
The number is hard for many to digest: $1.2 billion. That's the amount of money needed to build a 484-bed downtown teaching hospital proposed by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and supported by Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.
The situation is untenable," she said. "It's just heartbreaking. Biloxi city officials said they expect the death toll "to be in the hundreds." Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway put it in plain, stark terms to the local newspaper: "This is our tsunami." All Americans must do what they can to help the governmental and private relief agencies hard at work bring aid and comfort to these stricken regions and these stricken people. We must all respond to the appeals from the proper authorities and the reputable organizations for food, clothing and money. Time is of the essence. One need only look at the seemingly unending, terrible pictures that fill our television screens and newspapers now to see, as Gov. [Kathleen Babineaux Blanco] said, "The situation is untenable. It's just heartbreaking."
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