re: Lee, Beauregard, and Jeff Davis statues could be gone by summer in NOLA

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I'll plan a trip down there as soon as they are gone

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Once I find a job in Jefferson Parish, if they come down, I will only enter Orleans Parish, when I have friends in town. Won't waste my money in a city, that doesn't care what it's citizens think.

Mitch will likely give it one of his friends, so they can make money off them.
Basically, everything he said he wanted to do with the monuments, was offered by the property of Jeff Davis in MS. He turned them down, quickly.

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sort of funny that the only really racist one is the one with the most legal hurdles to remove

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sounds like you need a history lesson--at least this is the way the Battle of Liberty Place used to be taught in school.

In the election of 1872, John McEnery, a Democrat supported by a coalition of Democrats and anti-Grant Republicans, including Republican Gov. Henry C. Warmoth, won the popular vote over the Republican Party nominee, William Kellogg. The State Returning Board, which administered elections and was appointed by Governor Warmoth, declared McEnery the winner. A rival board endorsed Kellogg, charging Democrats with election fraud. The carpetbagger legislature impeached and removed Gov. Warmoth from office for "stealing" the election. The federal government eventually certified Kellogg as governor.

In 1874, McEnery and his allies formed a "rump" legislature in New Orleans, then the location of state government. His efforts were supported by the White League, a militia made up mostly of Confederate veterans that first formed in the Spring of 1874 in Opelousas and then spread across the state. On September 14, 1874, the local branch of the White League, the Crescent City White League called a mass meeting of the people of Louisiana. Specifically, that morning’s Daily Picayune published the call written by Dr. J. Dickson Bruns and signed by other prominent citizens:

"Citizens of New Orleans: For nearly two years you have been the silent but indignant sufferers of outrage after outrage heaped upon you by an usurping government.

"One by one your dearest rights have been trampled upon, until, at last, in the supreme height of its insolence, this mockery of a republican government has dared even to deny you the right so solemnly guaranteed by the very Constitution of the United States, which in article II, of the amendments, declares that 'the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

"In that same sacred instrument, to whose inviolable perpetuity our fathers pledged 'their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor' it was also declared that even Congress shall make no law abridging 'the right of the people peacefully to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.' It now remains for us to ascertain whether this right any longer remains to us.

"We, therefore, call upon you, on Monday, the 14th of September, to close your places of business without a single exception, and, at 11 o'clock, A.M., to assemble at the Clay Statue in Canal Street and, in tones loud enough to be heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, declare that you are of right, ought to be, and mean to be free."

At the meeting, after reciting the fact McEnery had been elected governor by a majority of 10,000 votes over Kellogg, and Penn, lieutenant-governor over Antoine by a majority of 15,000, Judge R.H. Marr presented a series of resolutions for adoption by the audience. The measures were enthusiastically adopted and a delegation was sent to the St. Charles Hotel to call on Governor Kellogg and other Republican officeholders to resign in favor of McEnery. After the Republican government refused to relinquish control, the crowd, including the White League, gathered before the Custom House, where Kellogg had sought refuge. In a fifteen minute clash, the White League and a crowd of 5,000 routed Kellogg’s 3500 man state militia and the Metropolitan Police, an armed force used by the carpetbaggers to maintain order. The clash inflicted about 100 casualties, including 32 dead—21 on the White League’s side. The Democrats occupied the state house for three days and turned out Governor Kellogg. The White League retreated before the federal troops arrived, and no one was prosecuted. Eventually, after the bitter Presidential election of 1876, the troops were removed in 1877, bringing Reconstruction in Louisiana to an end.

I don't have the link off hand. But I know they were offered to be housed in MS, till "New Orleans came to its senses"
But yea, Mitch will only give it to one of his friends.