Posted on 03/22/2007 6:37:34 PM PDT by Ellesu
In New Orleans, they aren’t shedding a tear over Louisiana Gov. Blanco’s decision not to seek a second term. A letter from the Garden District. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY New Orleans, 18 months after Katrina, is still a city of considerable ups and downs. Tuesday was no different; as usual, the bad news came first. The first e-mail I received informed me that a block and a half from our new house, at 1:30 in the afternoon, two hold-ups occurred in less than 10 minutes—and I live in Garden District, still perceived as a “nice” neighborhood, despite the alarming frequency of similar attacks, along with a recent rash of break-ins of both cars and houses (one of them was mine). First, a gunman wielding a “chrome short nose revolver” relieved a sod delivery man of the $30 in his pockets. Next, he snatched a woman’s purse, jumped into an “unknown black vehicle,” and roared away. As crimes go in the city with by far the highest murder rate in the nation (96 per every 100,000 people in 2006; more than 40 people overall have been killed so far in 2007), these could actually be viewed as good news—nobody was killed or even shot, after all. But the real good news came in my next e-mail: Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced that she would not seek re-election to a second term.
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http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/BREAKINGNEWS/70321013
Blanco says "if only I'd been a Republican"
Can you say Governor Jindal. IMHO, LA is going to be a state full of opportunity very soon.
Delusional.
“When I look back at the storms, if I had had the knowledge that I would be treated as a pariah by the national Republicans in office, I would have joined the Republican Party to save my state,” Blanco quipped.
“Then I would have been hugged and kissed and lifted, and I would have been declared the best governor in this whole country,” the governor said. “I wish I had realized that earlier. I think that was the fatal error.”
Yeah well Miss Blanko, President Bush was a Republican President, and you and your administration pushed blaimed on him and tried to make him look like the worst President of all time. You play with fire, and you are going to get burned.
All kidding aside she proved to be a ditherer during the Katrina emergency.
Blanco says "if only I'd been a Republican"
Blanco should have said: "if only I'd been competent"
"...I would have been declared the best governor in this whole country."
Of course, that's a dig at Haley Barbour, who showed all the leadership skills that this utter buffoon lacked. Mississippi deserves credit for standing up and taking care of business, not whining and begging for billions in hand-outs that everyone knew would be stolen by the resident crooks in NO.
"...I would have been declared the best governor in this whole country."
Of course, that's a dig at Haley Barbour, who showed all the leadership skills that this utter buffoon lacked. Mississippi deserves credit for standing up and taking care of business, not whining and begging for billions in hand-outs that everyone knew would be stolen by the resident crooks in NO.
Currently halfway through his 10-year prison term for extorting payoffs in exchange for riverboat casino licenses, he has said nothing publicly about the governor’s handling of the storm, but he did tell a close friend who visits regularly that federalizing the guard troops would have been a “no-brainer.” The 78-year-old former governor, said his friend, “is very concerned about the leadership of this state.”
MeeMaw Ping!
This woman was wayyyyyyyy in over her head.Good riddance
good ridance,dont let the door hit you on the way out.
i cant tell you how happy i am that she wont be running
again,she is a liar & a horrible gov.
i remember not long after the storm,there was a report
that she had spent over $500,000 on improving her peoples
offices,plasma tv,marble, all that while people had no
power or homes.
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