[SpamCop-Social] Re: Editorial pleads for New Orleans

[Miss Betsy]

"indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> But I recall reading multiple times that the mayor and/or
governor kept
> refusing to allow the feds to take over? Something about the law
requiring
> the locals to formally hand over the reins to the feds?
>

That may have been in reference to federalizing the National Guard,
which doesn't happen automatically when the area is declared a
National Disaster apparently.

Miss Betsy