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📍New Orleans, LA

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

"Locking the press out? Setting a $400,000 bond when we're not seeing that on *armed robberies*?" This entire presser is excellent. But the end really nails how upside down New Orleans leaders' priorities are. 🔥 @BayouMamaBears #lalege #lagov

[Blake Arcuri @blakearcuri]

Well that didn't take long.

[Brian Ward @GodsRiddles]

What is unfolding in New Orleans should alarm the entire Nation.

The State Attorney General warned New Orleans officials — in writing — that their plan to seat an unauthorized officeholder through a special election the State no longer recognized was unlawful. For issuing that warning, the City convened a grand jury and indicted her on sixteen felony counts of public intimidation and malfeasance in office.

Then the court sealed its doors against the press — handcuffing a journalist and their attorney for attempting to cover the proceedings, in defiance of State law. Now that the state Supreme Court has stayed the action, the city refuses to rescind the arrest warrant. This is a direct assault on America by corruptly using the force of one's office to achieve an unlawful result.

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

Serious or satire? At this point, it’s hard to tell. 🎪

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

City leaders and Orleans #lalege members are caterwauling about @LAGovJeffLandry's line item vetos. But making headlines is yet another bad city policy paying out ~$4.3 million in accrued leave, including $500k to a fired NOPD employee. Why would LA trust the city with more money?

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Give Mandami credit. He is doing exactly what he said he would do when elected. He is turning New York into a socialist/communist anti American city by getting “politicians” like Darializa Avila Chevalier elected. Here is just a sampling of things Chevalier has said, tweeted or done. (This is not an onion article. These are all facts)

Founded a group at Columbia with the express goal of overthrowing western society

Called all white women ugly colonizers while criticizing interracial relationships

Wishes she could wipe her ass with a the American flag

Waved a Hamas flag the day after October 7th attacks

Wants no borders

Wants to abolish the police

Wants to abolish prisons

Against all deportations. Clarified that even if a non citizen murders or rapes somebody deportation is immoral

Said all of the United States is on stolen Native American land

Things she has not done in her career. Had a job.

On the brightside though at least she never said America deserved 9/11. (At least that we are aware of yet) Unfortunately the other candidate Mamdani endorsed Aber Kawas did say that. And got elected. In NYC. What a world

[Matt Bowers @_Matt_Bowers_]

There needs to be a strategy to get people to move to New Orleans.
All the economic development in the world doesn’t matter if people are leaving and not moving in.

Empty nesters , retirees , 2nd homes whatever works
#NOLA

[Jono Barnes @JonoBarnes]

I’m sure there’s logistics and dynamics involved that I don’t realize, but man do we let that roof get raggedy regularly. For the city’s biggest landmark, it’s just kind of perplexing, maybe even fitting, how dirty we let the Dome’s roof get.

[Cindy Hayes @CindyHayes03]

This is the new New Orleans Mayor. She thinks citizens are so ignorant, they don't know SHE is the current President of the Board she is criticizing.

Democrats doing what Democrats do.

[Bayou Mama Bears @BayouMamaBears]

Fighting back tears, Lathrop said the ongoing construction (on Decatur St.) has financially strangled her business.

"They pumped so much money into supporting, like, Taylor Swift coming to town and the Super Bowl. Where is the support to us?" said Lathrop.
(Article attached in thread)

The reason construction for Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl was fast end efficient was because the STATE @LAGovJeffLandry handled it, NOT the City @HelenaMorenoLA.
And that makes all the difference.

https://t.co/hQc7BXfuZh

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

🚧 Finger-pointing in the French Quarter as businesses close and people lose their livelihoods. @LouisianaLtGov has there been *any* movement on the state taking over management of the Quarter? Any at all? We can't have this kind of chaos in such a vital district. #lalege #lagov

[Blake Arcuri @blakearcuri]

28 troopers are making 22% of the felony arrests in a city with a 900-person police department. And then the AG prosecutes those cases.

LA is doing the job which the state overpays NOLA to do.

Like throwing your hands up and cutting the grass after paying your kid to do it.

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

👏 What 25- to 28-member Troop NOLA has done is "nothing short of remarkable." @MetroCrimeNOLA looked at stats. Since 2024: 1,200+ arrests. Removed 200 firearms. Recovered 115 stolen cars, $180k in cash, 40 ATVs. *22% of open felonies are @LAStatePolice arrests.* #lalege #lagov

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

👏 Troop NOLA @LAStatePolice

[Bayou Mama Bears @BayouMamaBears]

Another airball article from @NOLAnews

Here are the FACTS:
When Gov. Landry Finished What Orleans Politicians Started, Suddenly It Was an “Attack”

Th coverage of Gov. Landry's "crackdown on New Orleans courts" has been heavy on outrage and light on facts. That’s not an accident — because the facts don’t support the media's agenda.

Orleans is the only parish in the state with separate criminal and civil district courts, resulting in Louisiana funding almost triple the number of judges in Orleans compared to parishes of comparable population like Jefferson, Lafayette, East Baton Rouge, and St. Tammany.

Elected officials are feigning outrage at legislation that passed which reduces the number of judges in Orleans and consolidates the courts. What makes the outrage particularly hollow is that dating back to the late 1980’s the Orleans delegation has fought to consolidate their own courts and reduce judgeships. This was their idea first.

As a legislator, Mayor Moreno didn’t just support court consolidation, the elimination of an elected clerk and 2 elected judges - in 2014 she carried one bill herself - at the request of then Mayor Mitch Landrieu. In 2016 she voted for it again when Orleans Rep. Walt Leger carried the bill. Current Council President, former Senator JP Morrell, voted for it too. Judge Calvin Johnson also supported consolidation and reiterated that publicly at a conference in 2025.

Not one of them appeared this session to testify in opposition - because they couldn't. Walking into that committee room would have meant answering for their own voting records. So they stayed in New Orleans where they knew the media wouldn't call them out. And the media didn't.

It wasn't just the courts that had become bloated, the number of state funded positions for the DA of Orleans was indefensible. St. Tammany and Washington Parishes get a combined 30 state-funded assistant DA positions handling 8,170 criminal cases a year. Orleans gets 83 state-funded positions - for just 4,237 cases. Orleans has half the caseload, but gets three times the prosecutors. If a reporter put those two numbers side by side, the entire “attack on New Orleans” framing collapses. So they didn’t.

Current DA Jason Williams, who as Council President had no problem slashing then DA Cannizzaro's budget, didn’t testify against the legislation either. If he had favorable data to push back, he would have been there to present it. He didn't show up.

The funding structure for Orleans Parish courts was built for a city with a much larger population and a much heavier caseload. That city no longer exists. Neighboring parishes have grown and need more resources. Realigning state funding to reflect that reality isn’t targeting New Orleans - it’s basic math that Orleans politicians themselves have championed for over three decades.

They just never managed to get it done. Governor Landry did. And for the delegation that spent years pushing these same reforms, that appears to be the one thing they cannot forgive.

@tegbridges
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[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

“The tide has turned against New Orleans politically. It’s pretty drastic.” #lalege and everyone else watched as New Orleans leaders, time and again, showed political weakness — failing to hold the mayor, DA, judges, and others accountable. #lagov
https://t.co/ypN2Vy7pYf

[Bayou Mama Bears @BayouMamaBears]

Landry’s Veto Was Right.
Legislators: You Should Be Embarrassed.

Jason Williams ran for New Orleans DA with a civil rights division as the centerpiece of his campaign promise. Once elected, that division got to work releasing people from prison who had been convicted of crimes, often without even telling the victims. Murder cases. Rape cases. Armed robbery. Hundreds of releases.

Here’s what most people didn’t know: every time Williams declared someone “innocent,” that person became eligible for money from Louisiana’s State Innocence Compensation Fund. That’s state money - taxpayer dollars from across the state.

Williams didn’t seem to have a problem with that arrangement. But then something changed.

A man named Raymond Flanks - freed by Williams after serving 39 years - sued Williams’ office directly in federal court. Suddenly, Williams’ own lawyers argued his civil rights division had overstepped and actually had no evidence of unconstitutional practices that led to the original conviction. The same DA who first called these convictions unjust admitted, in court, that he was wrong.

With over $10 million already paid out and 13 more federal lawsuits pending, Williams is now admitting in court what he never did on the campaign trail - his innocence claims may have been wrong. That change came the moment he realized his office could be on the hook for the bill, instead of the state. Williams' civil rights division - once his signature campaign promise to voters - effectively collapsed, its director resigning rather than watch the mission get dismantled from within.

But that collapse doesn’t mean it’s over. Now that Williams has admitted that his civil rights division overstepped, he's essentially undermining the factual innocence claims his own office made in many cases where individuals are still seeking state money from the Louisiana State Innocence Compensation Fund. Louisiana taxpayers are likely staring down millions more in losses before this is done.

So where does the Louisiana Legislature fit in?
They knew. In September of 2024, a Senate hearing laid out exactly what Williams’ civil rights division had been doing - in detail. Lawmakers heard it, acknowledged it, and apparently forgot about it.

Then, this year, they unanimously passed a bill raising the payout cap from the State Innocence Compensation Fund - from $400,000 to $600,000 per person - without adding a single safeguard to prevent the same abuse from happening again.

This isn’t about whether innocent people deserve compensation. They do. But the legislature had a clear and simple opportunity: fix the process before you pass the increase. Make sure the people getting paid are actually innocent.

Instead, they took the easy vote. They wanted to feel good and look compassionate. But good intentions without accountability isn’t compassion, it’s performance.
Landry vetoed the bill. The legislature should be embarrassed he had to.

@LAGovJeffLandry @AGLizMurrill @Sen_Henry09 @SpkrDeVillier @JulieEmerson @HeatherCloud4 @JayJaymorris3 @DIXONMCMAKIN @BlakeMiguezLA @RoyceDuplessis @jimmy4nola @stewartcatheyjr @RepSchlegel @d_villio @ValarieHHodges @KleinpeterCaleb @votelandry @RepAlanSeabaugh @wdsu @WWLAMFM @NOLAnews @FOX8NOLA @FoxNews @WBRZ @jeffcrouere @McmathPat @FixNOLA

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

@RepTroyCarter Rep. Carter, the problem in New Orleans is that we have a DA and judges who are not at all serious about actual *felons* illegally possessing guns. Posted this many times. Are you doing anything in DC to help fix this problem? It’s not only in New Orleans. https://t.co/vAR9jPFvZx

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

👏 "We're going to enforce it..." @KennerPolice
👏 @LAStatePolice are expected to enforce it.
⁉️@NOPDNews has not said if they will enforce it.
Let's get on board, @NOPDNews. #lalege

[Fix New Orleans @FixNOLA]

In the very next story after Sen. Duplessis complained that #lalege is attacking New Orleans uncontrollably with "no rhyme or reason," we see city-managed playgrounds are *still* in awful shape, too dangerous for kids, littered with drug needles and trash. Just doesn't get it.