When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

They have M-16's and they're locked and loaded. Blanco attended Mount Carmel Academy an all-girls school run by the Catholic Sisters of Mount Carmel which was situated on the banks of Bayou Teche. Electoral history
State Representative 45th Representative District 1987
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 24 1987
Public Service Commission District 2 1988
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 1 1988
Second Ballot November 8 1988
Public Service Commission District 2 1994
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 1 1994
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1995
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 21 1995
Second Ballot November 18 1995
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1999
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 23 1999
Governor of Louisiana 2003
Threshold > 50%
First Ballot October 4 2003
Second Ballot November 15 2003.

Blanco announced in March 2007 that Kathleen Blanco would not seek re-election later that year saying that Kathleen Blanco would instead "focus [her] time and energy for the [remainder of her term] on the people's work not on [the] politics" of running for another term. Many believed the immediate response from the city state and federal governments was inadequate and Blanco later acknowledged there were failures on the part of her administration before and after the storm; much criticism however was directed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for what was seen as a slow initial response to the disaster and an inability to effectively manage care for and delivered promised resources to those trying to evacuate from New Orleans. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (born December 15 1942) served as the 54th Governor of Louisiana having served from January 2004 until January 2008.