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M O N D AY, S E P T E M B E R 1 , 2 0 0 8
CAMPAIGN 2008
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Members of the National Guard patrol the area along Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Sunday, an area Hurricane Gustav is expected to hit today.
NEW ORLEANS With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this citys empty streets Sunday night and even presidential politics took a back seat as the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina. The storm was set to crash ashore late Monday morning with frightful force, testing the three years of planning and rebuilding that followed Katrinas devastating blow to the Gulf Coast. The storm has already killed at least 94 people on its path through the Caribbean. Painfully aware of the failings that led to that horrific suffering and more than 1,600 deaths, this time officials moved beyond merely insisting tourists and residents leave south Louisiana. They threatened arrest,
loaded thousands onto buses and warned that anyone who remained behind would not be rescued. Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time, Mayor Ray Nagin said. You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You will go directly to the Big House. Col. Mike Edmondson, state police commander, said he believed that 90 percent of the population had fled the Louisiana coast. The exodus of 1.9 million people is the largest evacuation in state history, and thousands more had left from Mississippi, Alabama and flood-prone southeast Texas. Late Sunday, Gov. Bobby Jindal issued one last plea to the roughly 100,000 people still left on the coast: If youve not evacuated, please do so. There are still a few hours left. Louisiana and Mississippi temporarily changed traffic flow so all highway lanes led away from the coast, and cars were packed bumper to bumper. Stores and restaurants
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ST. PAUL, Minn. John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday, casting himself as above politics as Hurricane Gustav churned toward New Orleans. We will act as Americans, not partisans, he declared. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney scrapped plans to address INSIDE the convention Monday night, COUNTDOWN: Biden and McCains matched Cheney in aides chartered a draft deferments. A6 jet to fly delegates JOEL CONNELLY: back to their hurricane-threatened Rating the highs and states along the lows from Denver. B1 Gulf Coast. Campaign manager Rick Davis said SEATTLEPI.COM the first-night proFor election stories, gram was being statistics, photos, blogs cut from seven and commentary, visit hours to 212. seattlepi.com/ Officials said elections08. that as part of the conventions opening night, Laura Bush and McCains wife, Cindy, would speak from the podium and describe ways to help victims of the storm bearing down on a region that was devastated three years ago by Hurricane Katrina. This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics, and we have to act as Americans, McCain said as fellow Republicans converged on their convenSEE CONVENTION, A6
Rosemarie Jarreau and her son, Devontay Jenkins, hug their puppies at an emergency evacuation center before boarding the last Amtrak out of New Orleans.
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This isnt about life and death, for me. (Its) about the overwhelming sense of remorse that I have, for having let everyone down.
Michele Anderson, in a letter to a friend
ents Carnation home. She wants to die, she told a friend in a jailhouse letter, to be responsible. For now, though, the decision isnt hers to make. It falls instead to Dan Satterberg, who faces his first life-ordeath decision since becoming King County prosecutor after the death of Norm Maleng. Having spent the 17 years before Malengs death as the prosecutors chief of staff, Satterberg has been inti-
If Michele Anderson is taken at her word, she wants to die for killing. In letters and public statements, Anderson has asked to be executed for her role in the Christmas Eve slaying of six members of her family at her par-
mately involved in King Countys capital cases. And, he said in an interview last week, hes relying on Malengs example as he decides whether Anderson and her co-defendant, Joseph McEnroe, might face execution. One of the things I learned at the feet of the master, Norm Maleng, was this is a decision that uniquely rests with the elected prosecutor, Satterberg said. Its not the product of a committee vote, and its not something we put on victims families to decide. The prosecutor has to act as a
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ST. PAUL, Minn. Washington state Republicans on Sunday defended decisions by gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi and two congressmen to skip the Republican convention, contending they were showing greater concern for voters and problems back home than Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire, who took a prominent role at the rival convention in Denver in her bid for re-election. The Republican candidates decided to forgo the convention hoopla and formal nominations of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as presidential candidate, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, before ofSEE GOP, A6
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BANGKOK, Thailand Facing chaotic street protests demanding his resignation, Thailands embattled prime minister turned to lawmakers Sunday to find a way out of the crisis, but ended up having to fend off his critics calls to step down or call new elections. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej went before a special joint session of Parliament to find a solution to the deepening crisis, even as thousands of right-wing protesters laid siege to his office compound for a sixth night and threatened to shut down more airports and roads in the country. The debate ended early Monday after about 11 hours with scores of lawmakers either lambasting Samak or defending him. More than 1,000 government supporters staged a counter-rally in front of Parliament. Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the opposition Democrat Party, proposed that Samak dissolve Parliament and call new elections. Samak replied: I will not resign or dissolve Parliament. I will not be defeated by those protesters. Dont you feel ashamed? Our image as far as the rest of the world sees us will be destroyed. I am the one who has taken the helm of the country, the decision should be mine. I am sure that I love this country as much as anybody. But I love democracy much more, more than anyone who told me to resign. Shortly after the debate ended, a small explosion at a police booth near where there have been anti-government protests damaged windows, but caused no casualties. No one claimed responsibility for the blast.
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