Scoot drops the hammer on Mitch Landrieu

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Dear Mitch,

The announcement of your plans for the removed Confederate-era monuments was a great disappointment to me because it confirms our worst fears that you used the removal of the monuments, and in the process the citizens of New Orleans, to advance your national political profile. The final chapter you have written for your legacy has inspired me to lament about our past.

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Mitch, you will never know how many times I protected you from salacious rumors about your marriage and your personal sex life that listeners wanted me to address on the air. I refused because I could not verify that they were true. In the interest of fairness - not ratings - I always gave you the benefit of the doubt - even after I had grown disappointed in your apparent motivation with the monuments.

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Mitch, I didn’t change; you did.

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the moment everything changed was the moment after the final monument was removed and evidence surfaced that at least one of the statues had been placed in a storage yard with other obsolete items. That changed my attitude about your real motives because it went against your verbal commitment to care for and place the removed monuments in an appropriate location. Your actions revealed that you really didn’t care about anything other than what the removal of the monuments could do for your national political image.

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Your role before, during and after the revelations about the Sewage & Water Board further confirmed that you are more acting like a mayor than you are acting as a mayor. If your goal is national politics at a time when voters are looking for sincerity over BS, how do you think your behind-the-headlines motives will play out on a national stage? Are you so convinced that you will only get credit for the headlines?

And BTW, Mitch, if you really were interested in following through on your words - how easy would it have been to follow through on placing an American flag on the pedestal Jefferson Davis occupied?

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