The governor expanded his request to Mr. Bush on Tuesday afternoon, asking him to raise his declaration to "major disaster," which would affect how the state is reimbursed later.
She quotes Erdogan, as a young politician, making various hair-raising declarations such as "Praise to God: We are all for sharia" and "One cannot be secular and a Muslim at the same time … you will either be a Muslim or a secularist".
He's right Chinese schools have been making increased efforts to educate children about environmental issues, and President Xi Jinping has made repeated awareness-raising declarations about the importance of being green.
If those declarations raised a smirk then, they certainly don't jar as much now.
Such open declarations raise a delicate issue in the literary world, where there are no standard tribal retirement rituals.
Malema became leader of the youth league in April 2008 after hotly disputed elections and soon raised eyebrows with declarations such as "We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma".
For Democrats, such declarations raise the unwelcome prospect that next year's presidential contest will be fought, at least in part, on the kind of cultural issues that have repeatedly put them at a disadvantage over the last 20 years.
Such declarations raised the hackles of many musical traditionalists, including the mighty composer Stephen Sondheim, who wrote a thunderous letter to The Times defending the characters in "Porgy and Bess" as being "as vivid as any ever created for the musical theater".
Advocates realised that by educating government officials and raising public awareness about the declaration, they could pressure the government to act.
When it comes to privacy and commerce, the declaration calls for raising digital education standards so that web users are better appraised of their fundamental rights when it comes to their personal data and how it is processed.
But using the legal declaration raises the question of whether other nonreligious groups are also entitled to the accommodation, and, he said, "I'm not sure how the courts would answer that question".
