James Gill: Is LaToya Cantrell under attack because she is a Black woman? Or a freeloader?

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Love she finally gets called out by the media.

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Took these frickers like 6 years.

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When New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell flies premium on our dollar to the French Riviera or a lakeside resort in Switzerland, do you feel she has one helluva nerve?

Do you think she is such a lousy mayor that she should be recalled?

If so, you just don't “understand the world Black women walk in.” You fail to appreciate her courage and her dedication to her daughter's welfare. Or so she and her supporters claim.

Whether she deserves to be run out of town on a rail for talking such pish tosh, or congratulated for keeping a straight face while doing so, is a matter of opinion. But we can agree that all her excuses for inflated travel expenses are pish tosh.

Those expenses are by no means the only, or even the main, reason a recall petition has been launched against Cantrell. The biggest knock on her administration has to be its anemic response to the crime wave.

With the citizenry constantly looking over its shoulder for violent assailants, and holding her at least partially responsible, Cantrell pulled a stunt that was, in political terms, crass in the extreme. She hopped over to Juvenile Court to offer moral support to a 14-year-old carjacker and his family, while leaving his victims to seethe.

It will be surprising if those victims don't add their names to the recall petition organized by Belden 'Noonie Man” Batiste and Eileen Carter. Not that it will make any difference. Recall petitions will always fail, because that is evidently what they were designed to do.

In this case, the recall law requires 53,000 registered Orleans Parish voters to sign on by Ash Wednesday before the question of whether Cantrell should get the heave-ho can be put on the ballot. Even without the distraction of Mardi Gras, that would have been too tall an order.

The Cantrell camp nevertheless trotted out the same objections that seem to greet every recall effort, including the hoariest of them all.

However, since Cantrell, Carter and Batiste are all Black, it will not be easy to make the racism slur stick.

A mayoral flak suggests the recall petition is part of a sinister plot hatched by an unnamed Republican firm in Washington to discredit a prominent Black woman. No evidence has been adduced to support such a charge, and there can't be many Republicans in Washington with the time to smear the mayor of a Black enclave way down yonder who can't seek reelection.

Recall petition organizers deny they are pawns of the GOP, but what if they are? Conservatives have free speech too.

The recall drive comes just when Cantrell's poll numbers have dropped into negative territory, so she may not have much hope of a future in politics anyway. She certainly won't command the support of her salad days without reimbursing the city for those inflated travel expenses.

The rules are quite simple. Officials fly coach on the public dollar, and must make up the difference from their own pockets if they upgrade. Cantrell routinely upgrades and racked up $29,000 in extra charges since the beginning of last year without making any move to square her account.

Her explanation — that she needs to be “safe” for the sake of her constituents and her daughter — makes no sense. If her plane crashes or gets hijacked, class distinctions will be irrelevant. She is just a freeloader who got caught.

Email James Gill at gill504nola@gmail.com.

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Her goons are on top is things.

She’s sweating and she’s got her goon squad intimidating people

Good lord they took that down fast.

It’s still there - try the corrected link noted above by Brummy.

Thanks for pasting this BTW, but

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Her explanation — that she needs to be “safe” for the sake of her constituents and her daughter — makes no sense. If her plane crashes or gets hijacked, class distinctions will be irrelevant. She is just a freeloader who got caught.

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So lets say she flies to Europe, she has to fly out of NY.. How many people on that flight would notice her as the NO mayor? She is a mayor. Mayors or more safe away from their cities than in it.... Because nothing she does has an impact on people in other cities from other states.

Idoit.

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Belden 'Noonie Man” Batiste

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I'm surprised that a black man initiated the recall. All I've read on here suggests that she would be reelected by a large margin if she could run again today simply because she is a black woman.

If those are my only two choices, I'll go with freeloader.