[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Blanco, a Democrat, was not elected as a crisis manager...

She had the authority to appoint a crisis manager and delegate the appropriate powers to him.

[singfreedom]

Hmmmm, if I lived in a city as tenuous as New Orleans, I think I would want a Governor who had, certainly, the POTENTIAL to be a "crisis manager". In this day and age, everyone's Governor had better be a "crisis manager". There's just too damn many bad things that can happen-----everywhere!