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American Power (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... we saw an inept government response at all levels of the federal system - especially by Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin - but the left is here making the Bush administration into a greater impediment to international humanitarian assistance than Myanmar's own obstructionist dictatorship. Here's the left-wing Mahablog attacking the Bush administration's response: Around...
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Hog On Ice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... is that Myanmar's bizarre, evil government is obstructing aid and press coverage. I thought Kathleen Blanco was the only governing official in the universe who would turn down aid during a major disaster, but apparently, I was mistaken. I should have remembered the leftist regime in Ethiopia, which created artificial famine by refusing food to citizens who didn't support the government's...
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A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
... Democrat can mention. Jindal won election in largely Democrat controlled Louisiana after Democrat Kathleen Blanco completely botched the preparations for Hurricane Katrina and then screwed Louisianans by wailing that all that went wrong was the fault of others - particularly the feds, when state and local response in Louisiana was pitiful and could be summed up with the Ray Nagin...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
... negligent homicide and cruelty. As part of their defense, they called the governor of the state, Kathleen Blanco, who testified that she had left it up to local officials to call for a mandatory evacuation (Chawla, 2007). The owners of the facility were found not guilty (Rosen-Molina, 2007).
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
... upon a bed of grits. Elected governor of Louisiana in 2007, he replaced the politically deflated Kathleen Blanco, who did not seek reelection. Jindal is keenly aware of the problematic legacy he inherits. Inside Huey Long’s sky-scraping capital building, “I wonder what crimes were committed here?” is a not infrequent visitor question, posed not quite jokingly. The state’s political...
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Time (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Article Tools However , Republicans are at least feeling pretty good about the state of play in Louisiana. The G.O.P. swept all but two statewide offices in last fall's elections, including the governors' office, where U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal replaced one-term Democrat Kathleen Blanco. Now Republicans have their sights set on an even bigger prize: the Senate seat currently held by Democrat...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
The prospect of Road Home grant collections comes less than two weeks after the Louisiana inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program. With the increase, ICF stands to earn $912 million to run Road Home, a contract that also sweetened its...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
The prospect of Road Home grant collections comes less than two weeks after the Louisiana inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program. With the increase, ICF stands to earn $912 million to run Road Home, a contract that also sweetened its...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
... inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program.Melanie Ehrlich, co-chair of the Citizen's Road Home Action Team, which has documented Road Home cases that appear littered with mistakes, said she has no confidence that ICF had correctly calculated...
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Fark.com (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
... assistance to homeowners trying to rebuild. It is a clusterfark largely due to the ineptitude of Kathleen Blanco. Those two things are completely different.
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Roney Smith (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
New Orleans City Council members, Shelley Midura, Stacey Head Arnie Fielkow, from left, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco listen to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, right, before the start of a news conference opening the Road Home office in New Orleans seen in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, file photo. The private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
The prospect of Road Home grant collections comes less than two weeks after the Louisiana inspector general and the legislative auditor said they were investigating why former Gov. Kathleen Blanco paid ICF an extra $156 million in her waning days in office to administer the program. With the increase, ICF stands to earn $912 million to run Road Home, a contract that also sweetened its...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
(AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)New Orleans City Council members, Shelley Midura, Stacey Head Arnie Fielkow, from left, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco listen to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, right, before the start of a news conference opening the Road Home office in New Orleans seen in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, file photo. The private contractor under investigation for the compensation it...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
New Orleans City Council members, Shelley Midura, Stacey Head Arnie Fielkow, from left, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco listen to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, right, before the start of a news conference opening the Road Home office in New Orleans seen in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, file photo. The private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
(AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)New Orleans City Council members, Shelley Midura, Stacey Head Arnie Fielkow, from left, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco listen to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell, right, before the start of a news conference opening the Road Home office in New Orleans seen in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, file photo. The private contractor under investigation for the compensation it...
