Just another day in New Orleans (1 Viewer)

[guidomerkinsrules]

Because this thread isn't about Baton Rouge. It's about New Orleans. We get it. You don't like the Cantrell bashing. You've made that clear a few times.

However, you're welcome to join the Landry-bashing that's almost universal on MAP. No one's ignoring what's happening in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana under Landry...

Welp...https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/jeff-landry-supports-bill-to-gut-la-public-records-access/article_a2180e6c-fcc9-11ee-8d53-4bf872b81384.html...

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No what I’ve made clear is that JUST Cantrell bashing is disingenuous
And it often turns into an unfortunate Trojan horse

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Then he quickly realized what New Orleans politics was REALLY all about and morphed.

and this is the key

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Then he quickly realized what New Orleans politics was REALLY all about and morphed.

And that's what we warned him about. So our church is Andrea Jefferson's family church. She's Catholic, Bill's Baptist, but he spent a lot of time there and one by one we watched as folks clung to him fall prey to that power trip and pay for it. When Ray said he had to leave after he got elected (he started attending St. Peter Claver in the city), we knew it wasn't going to end well.

 

[St. Widge]

No what I’ve made clear is that JUST Cantrell bashing is disingenuous
And it often turns into an unfortunate Trojan horse

I do think all the stuff about the Pontalba Apartments and the affair distract from the real issues with LaToya. Namely she has done essentially nothing to improve the city and just seems to be fiddling in foreign countries while our infrastructure burns. But, I also suspect that some of that is by LaToya's own design. Get her political opponents to fight with her over petty things so she can pretend to have the high ground while people ignore the fact that she just isn't doing her job.

But, I will say that the stuff about all the travel is legitimate. Not only is she wasting city funds for things that don't help the city, but she isn't here working to fix our issues. And she isn't here putting a spotlight on the things Landry is doing in Baton Rouge that have direct impacts on New Orleans. Now is the time for her to unite the political power of New Orleans to protect it, and the state, from Landry and she is off on "business trips" around the world.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I do think all the stuff about the Pontalba Apartments and the affair distract from the real issues with LaToya. Namely she has done essentially nothing to improve the city and just seems to be fiddling in foreign countries while our infrastructure burns. But, I also suspect that some of that is by LaToya's own design. Get her political opponents to fight with her over petty things so she can pretend to have the high ground while people ignore the fact that she just isn't doing her job.

But, I will say that the stuff about all the travel is legitimate. Not only is she wasting city funds for things that don't help the city, but she isn't here working to fix our issues. And she isn't here putting a spotlight on the things Landry is doing in Baton Rouge that have direct impacts on New Orleans. Now is the time for her to unite the political power of New Orleans to protect it, and the state, from Landry and she is off on "business trips" around the world.

She completely checked out after the recall and doubled down on the boondoggles. Why bother working if you can travel the world for free? She knows there is no downside for her and she probably can parlay her time as mayor into a Morial-esque job with some national org when she's out.

On the bright side, there is probably some benefit gained for us too - in the same way that an orange cone was better than Jason David, "no mayor" is largely better than "Latoya as mayor." The city certainly hasn't gotten any WORSE since she quit working.

 

[St. Widge]

She completely checked out after the recall and doubled down on the boondoggles. Why bother working if you can travel the world for free? She knows there is no downside for her and she probably can parlay her time as mayor into a Morial-esque job with some national org when she's out.

On the bright side, there is probably some benefit gained for us too - in the same way that an orange cone was better than Jason David, "no mayor" is largely better than "Latoya as mayor." The city certainly hasn't gotten any WORSE since she quit working.

That's a fair point and it probably is true that no mayor is better than LaToya doing what she would do if she were working. But the entire city just seems like a rudderless ship at this point. I think some on the council are trying, but with no leadership from a Mayor and no control over things that only the Mayor controls, it's nearly impossible for the council to do anything.

 

[Bayouboy]

Landry as Governor

LaToya as Mayor of New Orleans

Is it any wonder we are the laughing stock of the nation? To think Cantrell won a second term and Landry won outright with 51% of the vote. AMAZING!!!

 

[DaveXA]

and that’s the thing isn’t it?
We have a process going on in Baton Rouge that’s rolling one of the last place states backwards decades if not a century or so
But Cantrell ‘s foolishness is what we’re going to talk about
And I’m not just saying this bc if the *wink*wink* no politics thing on SR - but more generally how we deal with news, et al

I mean, this is a thread about NOLA issues innit?

 

[DaveXA]

No what I’ve made clear is that JUST Cantrell bashing is disingenuous
And it often turns into an unfortunate Trojan horse

It's never really been just Cantrell bashing tho. But do carry on.

 

[efil4stnias]

Landry as Governor

LaToya as Mayor of New Orleans

Is it any wonder we are the laughing stock of the nation? To think Cantrell won a second term and Landry won outright with 51% of the vote. AMAZING!!!

wait til you find out where we rank nationally with respect to income, education etc.

 

[Sun Wukong]

wait til you find out where we rank nationally with respect to income, education etc.

It's number 1, right?

 

[DaveXA]

It's number 1, right?

Yep, when talking about worst at...

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Landry as Governor

LaToya as Mayor of New Orleans

Is it any wonder we are the laughing stock of the nation? To think Cantrell won a second term and Landry won outright with 51% of the vote. AMAZING!!!

To be clear it was 51% of 36%

 

[St. Widge]

To be clear it was 51% of 36%

That's because Landry basically ran unopposed. Although there were technically other candidates on the ballot, nobody seriously considered that any of them had a chance beyond collectively forcing a run off, which didn't even happen. It's pretty pathetic that someone as clearly terrible as Landry basically ran unopposed.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

That's because Landry basically ran unopposed. Although there were technically other candidates on the ballot, nobody seriously considered that any of them had a chance beyond collectively forcing a run off, which didn't even happen. It's pretty pathetic that someone as clearly terrible as Landry basically ran unopposed.

Tells you about the electorate. I would've voted for a Butterfinger if it was allowed to be on the ballot.