Thanks for your post about Gov. Blanco. In one of the earlier locked threads today, someone posted a really funny link to a page with quotes from "A Streetcar Named Desire" and yes, I certainly could imagine Gov. Blanco spouting some of these classic lines.
I'll repost the link because you'll get a good laugh:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/quotes
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