Posted on 03/20/2007 5:34:53 PM PDT by Islander7
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose popularity plummeted after two hurricanes devastated Louisiana during her term, announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election. ADVERTISEMENT
The decision will let her get what she called important initiatives through an upcoming legislative session without having to worry about political considerations, she said.
"I am doing this so we can work without interference from election year politics," Blanco said.
She had already broken the news in phone calls to legislative leaders, a meeting with her Cabinet secretaries and in a letter to her staff.
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Is there a Senate seat coming open in 2008 she has her eyes on?
"Is there a Senate seat coming open in 2008 she has her eyes on?"
Her career is over.
Translation...I can't take time to campaign while there's so much money to divert to my off-shore accounts.
Good riddance ! She is more to blame than any other for the whole fiasco .
LOL!
Maybe she is looking at FEMA director in an HRC administration?
Facing Blanco (or another Dem besides Breaux) was the only way Jindal was going to win. Now if Breaux does run, Jindal probably wont even make it to the runoff (its an open primary in LA).
Will Bobby Jindal try for Governor, or will he wait for the next Senate race?
I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
I'll take you home again, Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide...
The roses all have left your cheek.
I've watched them fade away and die
Your voice is sad when e'er you speak
And tears bedim your loving eyes.
I believe Landreau or Breaux will run and win, and LA will continue its reign as the most corrupt state in the country.
First smart thing I have heard her do. I wish Nagin had done the same. In the old days, humiliated and guilty politicians like Nagin would have taken their own lives to try to save some honor for his family's name.
You're right.
Mawmaw on Tranks never 'ran' the state- her husband did, everyone here knows that. She was the kindly Cajun figurehead in Edwards' place.
She knows she can't win- and she knows that now the Democrats who have had enough of her will vote for Breaux( another good-ol boy) instead of Jindal.
Jindal had a chance with her as his main opponent- a slim one, but a chance. The fact is that the rest of LA detests New Orleans/South LA and will never vote for a Governor from here.
All that Jindal did to help the N.O. area works against him in the rest of the state.
He's Republican, he's from N.O, and he's 'brown/foreign'. He's up against too much, and a too-deeply entrenched political system in LA. He WOULD make dramatic changes- and the good-ol-boy system is NOT gonna lose power.
Oh- and just a bit of info-
Close friends attended the Mardi Gras ball in D.C. Blanco and hubby were there , and he was putting away champagne by the water glass full! Ah- the good life!
Maybe Nagin now has a chance to make Lousiana a "Chocolate" state...
The AP writer will be called on the carpet for not properly phrasing the story in AP speak. Should read "whose popularity plummeted after two of Bush's hurricanes devastated Louisiana"
Nope, but she has stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
If Breaux jumps in, I hope Jindal quits the Gov race and runs for the Senate in 2008 instead. If Jindal loses the Governorship again, then his political career is over and the Dems have succeeded in stopping a Republican minority.
Speaking of dropouts, Scott McInnis is withdrawing from the Senate race. I really thought McInnis would be a stronger candidate than Bob Schaeffer.
This first thing I thought of when I saw this was the TV show 'Prison Break' where the woman President suddenly resigned from office when she found out that both her allies and her enemies had the same career-ending dirt on her, and whichever way she went the other side would burn her.
No escape, so she quit.
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