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Elodia's black, but her husband Juan (dead since he was murdered in 2000) may have been somehow related to the Gov's hubby.

The Elodia Blanco in question, who is a recruiter for the NOLA PD and a community enviro-activist, is 54 and has lived in NOLA for at least 25 years.

One of her daughters, Melika Thornton, is 31 and a survivor of breast cancer which she contracted at age 12 (or 14, depending on which online article you find). Both she and her mother are shown as living on Benefit St. in NOLA.

The Juan Blanco who lived in Orange Walk district, Belize, and was murdered there in 2000, was only 29. I really doubt that the Elodia listed as his widow is the same one. There are also 9 more in the US as well.

As far as the Nagin story concerning his living in Dallas, he came out and refuted the "fact" that he had *bought* a condo there.

It was several days after the first story ran, during the storm chaos, that he "explained" that his wife and daughter had evacuated to the wife's brother's home in Dallas. His other two children, two sons, are 18 and 20, so I guess they live somewhere else or are in college somewhere.

When school started in Dallas, Nagin's 5-yo daughter enrolled in school there, so Nagin went to Dallas and *leased* a townhome, he said, because there were 15 people "staying" (don't know if that means "living" or just "staying while evacuated"--dialect there in NOLA sometimes uses "stay" for "reside") at the BIL's home.

Nagin's wife, Seletha, was maiden named Smith, so I don't know how to check out who her brother might be, namewise. Nagin was born at Charity Hospital in NOLA and all his bios say that Seletha was a childhood friend of his, so she must be from NOLA, too.

Seems like he lives/lived/stays/stayed in Marrero, on the West Bank (Jeff. Parish), but I didn't find any property records for him there. Orleans Parish clerk website is "down" and not accessible. It says "out for hurricane," but the referring page, lol, is titled "mayornola.blighted" and comes up "error." (Either someone has a sense of humor or it has been hacked.)