Mitch Landrieu responds to blog about the monuments Now w/ PICS

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The blog went viral; and Monday night, the Mayor’s office reached out to me at home to talk about what I wrote. Tyronne Walker, Mayor Landrieu’s Communications Director, expressed concern over what I had written, but also that the criticism came from me, a talk show host who had often defended the Mayor amid controversy.

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Here’s what was explained to me: The Mayor had plans to place all of the monuments in a warehouse, as he announced, but the warehouse that was expected to house the P.G.T. Beauregard statue did not have the equipment to safely protect it so at the last minute the Mayor and his office realized that a temporary change was necessary. That’s when the statue of Beauregard and part of Jefferson Davis monument ended up in the scrap yard.

When the monuments could not be placed in the warehouse as originally planned, it was decided to build structures around them to protect them until their final resting place could be determined. But pictures of the monuments in the scarp yard surfaced, and the Mayor’s office decided not to talk more about the location because of the numerous death threats against anyone involved in the monument removal.

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