Re: Re: By the way, Bill

> Where did you read that she had declared a state emergency?  The last
> article I read (I'll try to find it) stated that she had NOT declared it.

I'm really not sure what you're arguing, dude.  She declared a state of 
emergency on Aug. 26.  There are any number of references to this fact.

> I did find this blurb ...
>
>> Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials
>> tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
>> (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her
>> a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover
>> of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's
>> emergency operations center said Saturday.
>>
>> The administration sought unified control over all local police and
>> state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana
>> officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night,
>> concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal
>> declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a
>> political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been
>> able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have
>> blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have
>> the authority to speak publicly.

Yeah, that's a Washington Post article, located here: 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
Note the correction at the top of the page:  Correction to This Article
A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said 
that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state 
of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.

Stop repeating lies, it muddies your message.  Blanco has screwed up at many 
steps along the way, and she has refused to turn over control of the 
relief/evacuation efforts to the feds and generally impeded their efforts, 
but she did request federal disaster area status to open up channels of 
federal funding.  You can even read the proclamation here: 
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=973

-Sloth 




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