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Clothes also make the woman trying to look smart amid disaster (Blanco's emails)
Seattle Times ^
| 1/01/06
| Leonard Pitts Jr.
Posted on 01/01/2006 1:47:08 PM PST by Libloather
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Wass up with Mary? Pondering her reelection chances?
To: Libloather
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posted on
01/01/2006 1:50:57 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: ncountylee
"Please put (Blanco) in casual clothes, a baseball cap, etc.," wrote Liz Mangham, a PR consultant to the governor on Sept. 2, four days after the storm. "She needs to visit a shelter in prime time and talk tough, but hug some folks and be sensitive." Classic democrat hacks.
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posted on
01/01/2006 1:53:47 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: ncountylee; Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog
Louisiana Blanco: Katrina, Rita FEMA Housing BiasU.S.
Author: National news
12/31/2005
One of the most unfortunate aftermaths of the Katrina and Rita hurricanes has been citizens and neighborhoods refusing to allow trailer parks to open on properties throughout the state of Louisiana. So far, the argument has been the trailer parks would upset the neighborhood balance, could be placed in compatible areas and would increase crime in the neighborhoods.
Governor Blanco of Louisiana has issued a statement regarding the housing situation which will be made worse as FEMA curtails payments for hotel housings in early February. Here is Governor Blancos statement:
"With the close of 2005, we still have our citizens of Southeast and Southwest Louisiana dislocated throughout the State and the Nation. It remains our goal to bring all of our people home. I want to thank all of you who have hosted and cared for our citizens.
"As the recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita moves into the fifth month, it is important that we continue to give priority to providing temporary and long term housing for all of our displaced citizens. It is equally important that we provide housing opportunities statewide in a fair and equitable way. Each Parish and Municipality should evaluate every option available within each jurisdiction to provide assistance to FEMA and the State housing initiatives.
"I will not tolerate discrimination nor should any compassionate citizen of our state. These citizens are our friends, families, and neighbors who have lost everything through no fault of their own. We should want to help them return to their homes. Every state in this country has opened its arms to our evacuees. It is truly disheartening to hear that some people in Louisiana are reluctant to assist its own citizens during these extraordinary times."
Reports of suspected violations should be reported immediately to either the Attorney General´s Office at 1-800-273-5718 or the US Department of Housing and Urban Development at 1-888-560-8913.
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posted on
01/01/2006 1:56:17 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Happy New Year!)
To: Libloather
"Please put (Blanco) in casual clothes, a baseball cap, etc.,"
Please put (Blanco, Nagin, and Moon's kids) in orange jumpsuits, flip-flops, etc., and ask the guy with the horn to play "The Cheese Stands Alone".
To: Libloather
"If there's more damning evidence of how superficial, one-dimensional and petty our political life is in this country, I can't name it."Hear, hear. Amazing this is from the Seattle Times. He must be the usual token "fair and balance" writer included by most papers from time to time.
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:01:07 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
To: Libloather
How the heck would a trailer park increase crime??
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:03:26 PM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
To: Libloather
Blank-O is hot no matter what she wears...
On second thought, even that $250 billion she demanded from the Federal Government couldn't make her look good.
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:04:50 PM PST
by
frankjr
To: Libloather
BLANCO: It is truly disheartening to hear that some people in Louisiana are reluctant to assist its own citizens during these extraordinary times. Reports of suspected violations should be reported immediately to either the Attorney General´s Office at 1-800-273-5718 or the US Department of Housing and Urban Development at 1-888-560-8913." I don't know about you, but I am going to report Blanco to the authorities for failure to assist her own residents during Katrina.
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:05:02 PM PST
by
Liz
(You may not be interested in politics; doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you. Pericles)
To: Libloather
"Please put (Blanco) in casual clothes, a baseball cap, etc.," wrote Liz Mangham, a PR consultant to the governor on Sept. 2, four days after the storm. "She needs to visit a shelter in prime time and talk tough, but hug some folks and be sensitive."
Mangham added that Blanco "looks ... too comfy in her suit. Please put the secretaries in caps and jeans. ... I don't care if they are in the field or not ... they should look like they are." Kim Fuller, another gubernatorial flack, echoed that theme two days later, suggesting that Blanco "might dress down a bit and look like she has rolled up her sleeves. I have some great Liz Claiborne sports clothes that look kind of Eddie Bauer, but with class, but would bring her down to (the) level of getting to work." Wow, doesn't this sound exactly like J. Effin Kerry during the 2004 campaign, from the L.L. Bean field coat (Whar kin Ah find me a huntin' license?) to touch football on the tarmac to waving corn cobs out the bus window - in other words, all "image" and no substance?!
To: Libloather
One of the most unfortunate aftermaths of the Katrina and Rita hurricanes has been citizens and neighborhoods refusing to allow trailer parks to open on properties throughout the state of Louisiana. So far, the argument has been the trailer parks would upset the neighborhood balance, could be placed in compatible areas and would increase crime in the neighborhoods.Except for the "compatible areas" statement sounding racist, elitist, and insensitive, the concerns are totally valid.
There's no such thing as "temporary housing"....someone will always need those homes, and it will be the most needy and least able to take care of themselves who will end up in them....in areas that will not be properly planned with utilities, leisure space, schools, security, access to services, etc. It'll be like the HUD housing complexes that become their own little third-world countries.
It would make much more sense for the building to involve a plan where small clusters of permanent housing put displaced people near their cultural lifelines, jobs, and needed services. Building slums will not help stimulate the rebirth of New Orleans.
You know those useless Sociology majors of the '60s? (The stuff I know is just from helping a roomate with papers) Well, it's about time those who earned them got involved with the problems that are in the aftermath of all of the natural disasters that have occurred.
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:09:17 PM PST
by
grania
("Won't get fooled again")
To: Libloather
She and Nagin both got caught with their pants down and proceeded to blow their tops.
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:12:14 PM PST
by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(Rock beats scissors, don't run with rocks. NRA)
To: BurbankKarl; oceanview
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:15:21 PM PST
by
AliVeritas
(The Boy Who Cried Wolf in reverse- the DNC. The Constitution is not a suicide pact - A.L.)
To: BenLurkin
But, ya gotta love it. Verification, again, of what Rush calls symbolism over substance.
To: WestTexasWend
"Please put (Blanco, Nagin, and Moon's kids) in orange jumpsuits, flip-flops, etc., and ask the guy with the horn to play "The Cheese Stands Alone".
I like your way of thinking!
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:23:00 PM PST
by
GloriaJane
(http://music.download.com/gloriajane "Seems Like Our Press Has Turned Against Our Country")
To: WestTexasWend
Please put (Blanco, Nagin, and Moon's kids) in orange jumpsuits, flip-flops, etc.,
----Amen
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:27:38 PM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: Libloather; All
This story puts Blanco in a bad light, but by the same token I'm sure Blanco is not alone. Does anyone doubt that many politicians, at all levels, dress for political success to suit the occasion?
To: All
At the risk of being flamed, and while I like W, does anyone doubt that someone in the WH suggested it would be a good idea for the president to be seen like this?
To: ncountylee
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:42:39 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well we could have a picture of Bill Clinton with his pants down around his ankles at half mast with a intern on her knesss couldent we
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posted on
01/01/2006 2:52:43 PM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the beeber)
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