re: Text messages between Mitch Landrieu and chief of staff urging him to return to NOLA

"This part is pretty funny/strange. The Governor and a major city mayor are in the same city across the country and they didn't even know "


That evidences the autonomous nature of mayorships. They aren't employees of the state and they don't work for the Governor's Administration. They operate their only lil' kingdoms autonomously for the most part. They don't communicate with the Governor on a regular basis. That may seem dysfunctional to some degree but it is a product of desirable separation of power. You don't want things to where mayors are just puppets of whatever governor is in office. Better that the are largely independent of the state government hierarchy.