Frank Stewart buys 2-page ad in Advocate, rips Mitch Landrieu a new one.

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Stewart goes on to say he personally supported both Mitch Landrieu’s father, former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, and and Mitch’s sister, former Senator Mary Landrieu, for many years. “Your father earned well-deserved respect for his accomplishments,” Stewart wrote. “As his son, you are destroying the good Landrieu name.”

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“In my 81-plus years on this Earth, I have never been known as a gambler, high roller, or a person who is prejudiced and practices discrimination,” he wrote. “Because it is my opinion that the three magnificent statues on your removal list should remain in place, you decided to insult me publicly in a most personal and harmful manner.”

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“Mitch, I personally accuse you of having self-serving and very selfish political ambitions to make a public issue out of a matter that our last four African-American mayors never addressed,” Stewart said. In underlined, all capital letters, Stewart tells Landrieu that the remaining statues “belong to the citizens of New Orleans – not to you!”

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