Tom,
It looks like Blanco understands that people living in glass houses should
not throw stones.


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Governor Defends Louisiana's 'Exit Plan'
Sep 11 9:59 PM US/Eastern

By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON

Louisiana had a "well thought-out exit plan" in the days before
Hurricane Katrina, and many more lives would have been lost without
it, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Sunday.

"There was not a single individual taking a slow step in our state,"
Blanco said at the Reliant Center, where more than 2,000 evacuees are
living after fleeing the devastation in New Orleans.

City, state and federal governments have been criticized for delays in
evacuations and delivery of supplies, widespread communication
difficulties, and law enforcement breakdowns in New Orleans that led
to looting and violence.

Blanco insisted the state had an evacuation-and-rescue effort that
prevented thousands more deaths.

"Were there lessons learned? You bet," she said in a tense 14-minute
explanation after being asked to elaborate on Louisiana's storm plans.
"We did a massive evacuation, and if we hadn't we would have had
thousands of deaths. Right now, the numbers are minimal when you
consider the amount of damage."

As she has before, Blanco, a Democrat, refused to blame President
Bush, a Republican.

"Help in those critical moments was slow in coming, not through any
fault of the president," she said.

Blanco is scheduled to meet with Bush on Monday on the USS Iwo Jima
off New Orleans. They were then expected to take a walking tour of the
historic French Quarter.

Associated Press reporter Derrill Holly contributed to this report.

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Interesting that now, we're buds because she knows her ass is on the
line.