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Shreveport lawmaker wants details about governor's actions on Katrina


A state lawmaker from Shreveport wants answers from Gov. Kathleen Blanco about what steps were taken immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana.

Waddell, a member of a select committee that will look at the state's response before and after Katrina hit, has sent a letter to Blanco asking for detailed information about what state officials did and didn't do -- and when that happened.

"I love this state and I want to stand up for this state, but I have to have the information to do it with," Waddell said.

Waddell, a Republican representative for the past eight years, is known as a consensus builder who doesn't seek the political spotlight. He said he's relaying questions raised by voters in his district.

"That was the reason for it. There's no grandstanding in it," he said.

Blanco has admitted mistakes were made at all levels of government. Among the criticisms leveled at the state are slow response, slow requests for outside help and being overwhelmed after Katrina hit.

Waddell wants details about what was done by the governor and her staff in the days before the hurricane and the week after the storm.

He's asking for e-mails, memos and letters in four areas: Preparations for the hurricane; evacuations; requests for assistance from other states and the federal government; and relief planning after Katrina hit and New Orleans flooded.

"Where I could do a time line, put it on a grid system and put it out there where everybody could see what we did do," Waddell said.

The governor's press office did not immediately comment on Waddell's actions.

Waddell is among the lawmakers appointed by the Speaker of the House to the House Special Committee on Disaster Planning, Crisis Management, Recovery and Long-term Revitalization.

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Now we're getting somewhere.

[laz]

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Shreveport lawmaker wants details about governor's actions on Katrina

It'll be dismissed by the MSM as a Republican vendetta. But the only reason a Republican is doing it is because no Democrat will.

[Elyse]

He's asking for e-mails, memos and letters in four areas: Preparations for the hurricane; evacuations; requests for assistance from other states and the federal government; and relief planning after Katrina hit and New Orleans flooded

Blanco will send the Senator a folder with one letter in it that says, 'I was on the phone with the President and I asked him for everything he's got!'

[ErnBatavia]

Shreveport is a beautiful city, if my 40-year memory of having been there is correct. I had an elderly female relative there, and a visit to her stately old home was made when I was a teenager.

I still remember tons of huge trees and the area being extremely green (which always impresses a southern Californian).

[agrace]

Waddell, a Republican representative for the past eight years, is known as a consensus builder who doesn't seek the political spotlight. He said he's relaying questions raised by voters in his district.

What, a politictian who is genuinely more concerned about his constituents than about furthering his own career?! Must be why I haven't heard of him. :) Good for him, sounds like a good man for the job.