Any more info on the possibly backdated letter posted by Blanco?
I'll see if I can find it.
an additional 40,000 troops; trailers of water, ice and food; commercial buses; base camps; staging areas; amphibious personnel carriers; deployable morgues; urban search and rescue teams; airlift; temporary housing; and communications systems. Even if these initial requests had been fully honored, these assets would not be sufficient to address our critical, immediate needs.
She doesn't post the letter or whatever it was making the "previous request."
There is no backdated letter. Every order can have its marked date, and still Blanco has only asked for federal money, and has not conceded any control of the effort to the feds.
There is a "previous request," dated last Sunday I think, which askes the President to declare parts of the state a disaster area. He complied with the request.
The sum issue with Blanco's actions is that she wants to have all of the authority but none of the responsibility. Her requests for aid, and her denial of offers by feds to take organizational control SUPPORT that conclusion - that Blanco wants the authority, but not the responsibility.