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Katrina e-mails show Blanco PR worries
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| 12/12/2005
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Posted on 12/12/2005 7:28:30 PM PST by devane617
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Very interesting...
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:28:31 PM PST
by
devane617
To: devane617
CNN finally found out about this?
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:30:55 PM PST
by
digger48
To: devane617
even worrying about her clothing,Now that's leadership!
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:32:20 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
To: digger48
CNN can't spin it all away.
Gee...that's too bad.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:32:58 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: devane617
"Gov. Blanco might dress down a bit and look like she has rolled up her sleeves," press consultant Kim Fuller of Witt Associates wrote in a September 4 e-mail to aides, including Mann and Kopplin. "I have some great Liz Claiborne sports clothes that look kind of Eddie Bauer, but with class, but would bring her down to level of getting to work." "She would look like a woman, but show she is MOVING MOUNTAINS," Fuller wrote.
Hee, hee. That worked, yup.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:33:16 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: devane617
"The e-mails were distributed by Republican aides to the committee. Blanco is a Democrat."Nice touch, huh?
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:33:43 PM PST
by
digger48
To: devane617
"You send that many black folks out of state, we will have a perception problem," Blanco assistant chief of staff Johnny Anderson wrote in a September 2 e-mail. "Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state," Anderson wrote. "We are make (sic) a strategic error. FEMA will not have to answer to the people, we will."
Apparently, the only problem with sending "that many black folks out of state" is the "perception."
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:36:23 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: digger48
Funny how they never wrote "Though the people of New Orleans claimed a Republican president abandoned them, their state and local governments, which were responsible for the evacuation and first response, are Democrats."
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:37:41 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(An agnostic who never, ever says "Happy Holidays")
To: devane617
She said the governor was focused on search and rescue, and getting as much federal assistance as possible. Ought to get her to say that under oath. It seems to me that Blanco was worried about her image more than anything.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:38:09 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: ncountylee
Actually a pretty damning article, suprisingly
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:38:21 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Brilliant
It's gonna be fun to watch her testify.
Anybody on our side of the committee got any balls. Betcha they could make her cry with a couple of loaded questions.
Which Committee is it?
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:41:26 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Brilliant
Never mind, "House panel on Katrina"
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:42:47 PM PST
by
digger48
To: devane617
These get released after the other ones pointing fingers at everyone else. Funny how that works. Make your agenda driven point in the main news cycle. Tell the other half of the story or even the truth at a later date when the furor has passed.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:43:07 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
( Seventy million spent on the lefts Christmas present and all they got was a Scooter)
To: devane617
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:48:38 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: devane617
Anyone who accepts a job to make Blanco look good is guilty of fraud.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:51:59 PM PST
by
RouxStir
(Peaceful Muslim?.....The Ultimate Oxymoron.)
To: digger48
I was thinking the same thing! This is very old news.
To: digger48
Actually a pretty damning article, suprisingly Sounded like a lot of useless fluff to me.
The governor is a politician. Of course she has staff members who's job is to make sure she dresses to make the right impression.
To be honest making the right impression is part of leadership in a disaster where you're getting 24 hour news coverage.
The people need to get the impression that their leaders are competent and in charge.
I don't have a problem with all the emails about wardrobe and how to make the right impression.
My problem is that she didn't do her job competently.
She was not prepared to lead her state through such an emergency even though the state was particularly susceptible to such disasters, had several close calls in recent times, and she had several days of warning as well.
The media is always attacking on form, not function.
They criticize how people look and the impression they give others.
Then they cirticize them for trying to make the right impression.
However, they rarely look at the real failures.
To: digger48
CNN finally found out about this?
The truth?
About a Democrat?
Being told by CNN?
Somebody at CNN must have decided that CNN needs to do something
really radical to avoid the fate of the ever-shrinking liberal
press.
Even if it means telling the truth about a fellow traveler.
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:57:24 PM PST
by
VOA
To: devane617
even worrying about her clothing,
----I would be worried about more important things, but while we are on the subject, she could use a makeover. LOL
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posted on
12/12/2005 7:58:10 PM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: untrained skeptic
All right, all right, I'll give you that. I shoulda said
Actually a pretty damning article suprisingly, for CNN
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posted on
12/12/2005 8:01:43 PM PST
by
digger48
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