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The Washington Examiner

Juliegrace Brufke, Congressional Reporter

August 29, 2022

A petition was filed calling for a recall election for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell in the wake of a series of controversies.

The Friday petition, led by former city employee and ex-mayoral candidate Belden Batiste and Eileen Carter, cited a “failure to put New Orleans first and execute the responsibilities of the position.” Critics argued she has failed on matters of police staffing, tax collection, and French Quarter security, in addition to her rhetoric in support of a teenage boy who was convicted of carjacking five people .

Criticisms of the mayor have heightened due to a sharp uptick in violent crime in the city.

“The mayor, she should put the city of New Orleans first,” Batiste said at a press conference on Friday. “She has neglected her duties, and there’s a number of issues going on. For instance, look at crime, look at infrastructure. I don’t hate the mayor, but at the end, do your job.”

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This Woman Is the Worst Mayor in America

New Orleans’ LaToya Cantrell is running away with the competition.

Scott McKay

August 22, 2022

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People who live in the Big Easy’s suburbs, which contain more than two-thirds of the population of the New Orleans metro area, call her LaToya the Destroya due to the abject destruction she has wrought over the city’s business community, particularly thanks to one of the nation’s most onerous and pointless COVID lockdown regimes. But it goes further than that — New Orleans’ aging drainage infrastructure is nearly useless despite the billions of your tax dollars which were poured into the city’s Sewerage & Water Board, which Cantrell as New Orleans’ mayor is responsible for. The New Orleans Police Department is down to 957 active duty officers. In a recent highly publicized incident, one whistleblowing cop working the French Quarter on a Friday night last month publicly quit in the middle of his shift. Afterward, it was learned that there were some 40 calls logged into the police department’s 911 system and only 35 patrol officers available in the whole city to take them.

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But the piece de resistance, the coup de grace, for Cantrell came last week in a juvenile criminal court.

In an amazing moment, Cantrell showed up to sit with the family of a carjacker who had been found guilty of first-degree robbery. The kid was 13 years old, and he’d been involved in five separate carjackings. Somehow, the district attorney’s office dropped the charges down from armed robbery but secured convictions.

And as the victims, who were mostly (if not all) white women, including one who’s a college student at ultra-expensive Loyola University, read their impact statements, Cantrell looked at them from the front seats.

Then the judge, a Democrat named Renord Darensburg, pronounced sentence:

Three years, suspended. No jail for carjacking and pointing guns at women.

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