No federal assistance requested by Blanco until Sunday, August 28

I would like to note that in some of these articles, it has been pointed out that Gov. Blanco, the Democrat governor of Louisiana, did declare "a state of emergency" on August 26. However, that declaration did not request federal help and placed responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the state level.

The point of the article (which also appeared in the Washington Post) is that Blanco did not declare a state of emergency to the federal government until Sunday, August 28, which would explain the statement "As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency." Yeah, she did not declare it to the federal agencies until Sunday.

Here is proof.