Blanco wants 'Family Recovery Corps' to get families back to Louisiana

WWL ^ | 9/24/05 | DOUG SIMPSON

[chgomac]

A lot of the speakers at yesterday's anti war rally were telling the crowd to go to shelters and get the evacuees riled up to demand "an end to racism" etc.

This has the poyential to be a real problem for the dems....the longer people stay dispersed, the less likely they will return to their poverty stricken, crime ridden "home" in Louisiana!

[cardinal4]

If this keeps up, the only people left in LA will be the ones that made it a Red State. With all the seed money, new houses and fresh starts, people from NO have shot at getting it together elsewhere. No wonder she wants the money, she needs to get her dependent voting bloc back!

[poobear]

"....the longer people stay dispersed, the less likely they will return to their poverty stricken, crime ridden "home" in Louisiana!"

Maybe this is their plan. They can vote in absentia and in their new districts and twice there as long as there is no ID required. foil hat-ON.

[YaYa123]

Watching Blanco make this insipid announcement...another giveaway program, while the hurricane was still battering Lake Charles, really exposed Blanco's idiocy. As she made this announcement, she had to read every word, and most of them were inappropriate and out of touch. After yesterday, I don't think there's any doubt, Blanco is losing control. The following are descriptions of Blanco, as she spoke:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490587/posts?q=1&&page=401

"To: Major_Risktaker
Blank O! She's an idiot!!!

Our people have been offered so much help, they're confused, so I'm forming a Recovery Corps...trained Louisianians who can help our people find the help they neeed. No matter whwere those Louisianians live, the Recovery Corps will be available to help them.

YOU GUYS GOT IT???? This idiot governor has tried to come up with some way to entice the people who are living somewhere else to go back.

I can't believe how inept this woman is!!!



404 posted on 09/24/2005 12:28:04 PM PDT by YaYa123

Blanco's 'Family Plan' is most likely another rip-off.



411 posted on 09/24/2005 12:30:03 PM PDT by golas1964

Bingo, Yaya! That is what I think. She didn't think of this idea with her pea brain; I bet it came from her buddy James Lee Witt. It sounds like a Clintonian idea, doesn't it?
They are trying to find ways to locate those people who fled New Orleans and get them home. At the very least, they will demand their absentee votes.

I despise these people. And I sincerely hope that those people who fledNew Orleans find new and better lives somewhere else!


414 posted on 09/24/2005 12:30:54 PM PDT by Miss Marple"

Immediately following Blanco's bizarre press conference announcing this new program, Nagin held his own, separate press conference, still talking about "re-populating" New Orleans.

[G.Mason]

Seems the inept pols in Louisiana are loing their sheep.

Perhaps they need to tattoo them with ID numbers for the next big blow? Property is, afterall, property.

[G.Mason]

loing = losing ... stupid me.

[don-o]

Time to get on the phone / fax / e-mail to Washington. Demand accountability. Place an independent administrator of the disaster area. Don't let Blabko or Naigan get their mitts on a dime of our money!

[don-o]

Blabko Meant Blanko; but that's not too bad, either.

[muir_redwoods]

Sounds like a good use for the state funds she didn't use for the evacuation Bush demanded of her.

[libs_kma]

"Of course! Each person who fails to come back to Louisiana is a lost vote for the Democrats. Each voter they can get back is money well spent!"

Exactly. Anyone can see that this is a shameless ploy to get back a voting base that they have lost now that the wefare moms from N.O. have seen the world outside of what was their previously sheltered view.

As far as money well spent, Blanco wants to get her votes back at taxpayer expense.

"You can't have my welfare recipients!! Those votes, ummm, people are mine!"

[OldFriend]

Perhaps we can salvage the Port but as for the rest of NO, there is NO hope.

The very thought of repopulating in the midst of the hurricane season is mindless. It's time for the federal government to step in and over rule the local and state elected officials. Starting with a visit to rehab for Nagin. As for Blank-O, she's hopeless. And that goes for Vitter, Jindal, and Landrieu

[sgtbono2002]

Let her spend Louisainna money, what portion of it she and her other crook politicians havent stolen.

[freeangel]

What makes her think that by getting "her voters" back to LA they will still vote for her after she proved what an inept sob she is?

[bert]

It was reported locally that members of the government "Job Corps" in the area were dispstched to NOLA for cleanup duty. The group was used to clear out bodies. The report was given by the mental health pro who worked with them after they returned traumatized.

[TXBSAFH]

Where I work we brought many of the workers from NO to Housotn to work. Most DO NOT want to go back, they are making lives in Houston.

[DumpsterDiver]

Hold on, I have a few billion sitting around somwhere here...oh, here it is, in a shoe box. Sure, she can have it, I wasn't going to use it.

I keep my spare cash stuffed in my mattress, but I feel the same as you. May God bless us both for our generosity.

[browardchad]

In all due respect, she just seems incompetent to be governor, particuarly now at this critical time. I think someone should consider taking steps to circumvent her and/or replace her due to the severity of the situation and issues presently needed solutions, and affecting so many in such huge dollar and human condition degrees.

You're looking at the situation rationally, but the Dems don't, because money -- lots and lots of money, and the ability to manipulate the money in furtherance of the welfare state -- was always the goal, and Blank-o is the perfect tool to oil the machine. At every press conference, it's all about Louisianans as needy victims that must be rescued by Louisiana officials with federal funds.

[SaintDismas]

Actually, loing it is appropriate. She really needs to stick her head in the loo (toilet) LOL

[hershey]

The train left the station last week, but Blanco's still trying to climb on board.

[Unicorn]

How about funding it with state money nutso.