[Dolphy]

On September 1, Blanco issued an Executive Order asking for an inventory of all school buses and drivers in the state and giving the authority to commandeer them. Couldn't she on her own or at Nagin's request have done this earlier?

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[angkor]

September 1 ... an inventory of all school buses and drivers in the state and giving the authority to commandeer them.

Horse out of barn.

[angkor]

Couldn't she on her own or at Nagin's request have done this earlier?

Forgot to mention: it is completely implausible that the City and School Board had been negotiating use of the school buses as of June 9, but did not have a working inventory of the number of buses potentially at their disposal.

Even a 10-year-old would have asked "How many school buses does Orleans Parish have?"