Looks like Gov. Dingbat (i.e., Ms. Blanco) has a full plate of late. First, she makes a special phone call to her nephew Friday night to congratulate him on hitting the 3-run homer that beat her state's flagship university ("We never were an LSU family" - Charlie Babineaux). Then, out of pure political spite, because he backed her election opponent, she goes out of her way to antagonize Saints owner Tom Benson. Get ready, folks...this lady is going to go down in history as the Governor who lost us the Saints. And while some of you may not see that as such a bad thing, just wait until the economic impact such a loss has on New Orleans trickles down to the rest of the state...not to mention that it sends a message to big business that our government can and will renege on it's deals if it sees fit to do so. Now, I hear on the radio this morning that Ms. Bunker...errr...Blanco called a certain state Senator into her office yesterday, and proceeded to get into a shouting match with him over the whole ULL vs. LSU thing. Does anybody know any more details on this? I'm becoming more and more convinced every day that this woman is going to be an unmitigated disaster, not only for LSU, but for the state as a whole.
Kinda makes yer heart yearn for old Edwin, don't it? Anybody for breaking him out? :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Blanco 'agitated' by Barham remarks By CHRIS FRINK [email protected] Capitol news bureau A "very agitated" Gov. Kathleen Blanco summoned Sen. Robert Barham to her fourth-floor office Tuesday after Barham accused the governor of snubbing President Bush. The day before, Barham, R-Oak Ridge, gave a short speech on the Senate floor criticizing Blanco for not attending the LSU graduation ceremony where Bush spoke Friday. "Governor, I am disappointed," Barham told the Senate Monday during a time allotted for personal remarks. Blanco took time Tuesday to share her displeasure with Barham. "I was very mad ... very agitated," she said Tuesday afternoon. Blanco said she told Barham his speech was an unfair and personal attack. She and Bush have met several times in her short tenure as governor, Blanco said, including three formal occasions. A schedule packed with personal and professional responsibilities kept her from seeing Bush on Friday, she said. A death in the family and meeting with business leaders complicated her schedule, Blanco said. "I'm a person who tries to be everywhere for everybody," Blanco said. "There's only so much a human being can do in one day." Blanco said she tried to squeeze in a last-minute visit with Bush by flying to meet him at the airport but found the air space around the airport closed because of security restrictions. Party politics -- Bush is a Republican, Blanco a Democrat -- did not play in her decision to skip the president's visit, Blanco said. "If I could have been there, I would have been there," she said. Barham told the Senate that a rivalry between LSU and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette might have played into Blanco's decision to avoid the Bush visit to the state's flagship university. "He fueled some fires ... and that's totally unfair," Blanco said. Rest of the story at:http://www.2theadvocate.com/ Let's see...no time to see the President when he comes to visit, yet she can MAKE time to call an Ole Miss outfielder to congratulate him on beating LSU. And it's apparent that legislators can't excercise their rights of free speech and call her on it without her throwing a hissy.
The leader of the free world makes time to come to our capitol and speak at LSU's graduation and she can't fit it into her schedule?? WTF she only had what three months notice??? The senator should have told her to kiss his ass.
Guys, She sounds more like Janet Reno to me than Edith Bunker........ I have one other thing to say, Remember Gray Davis??
