It's simple. They are afraid that feds will say before they took control on Friday, it was a local problem and they bungled it. If there is a clear transfer of power on a certain date, that becomes the demarkation of blame. Clearly things were much better on Friday and Saturday then they were on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Governor is afraid that if it looks like she was in control on the bad days, she will get blamed. The truth that she WAS in control is secondary to being blamed for it.
What she should have been worried about is establishing central control and saving the lives of the Citizens of New Orleans. Instead she's worried about blame. It's pathetic.
Thank you..
You are correct, and the Feds would be absolutely correct to say this.
See post #18. Until Saturday the Governor STILL refused to declare an emergency.
As for your assertion that things were better of Friday, I'm not so sure that's true. The situation was spiraling out of control till the troops rolled into town LATE friday after being called for ONLY on Wednesday (post 18).
I would like to think my Governor would call for help the minute the leve broke. I would like to think my Governor would make a Mandatory evacuation really MANDATORY when it was clear a Cat5 was two days away.