Biden's 'infrastructure czar' is a total incompetent: This guy will oversee $1.2 trillion in "infrastructure" spending. His record as mayor of New Orleans is appalling

prisingly, most of the funds will be spent on projects that have nothing to do with infrastructure.

With this appointment and the resulting media attention, Landrieu's stock is rising so fast that CNN has just added him to the list of potential Democrat party presidential candidates in 2024.

Does Landrieu deserve all this hype? Certainly not when considering his performance as mayor of New Orleans. For eight years, Landrieu was a disaster as mayor. The list of his failures is too numerous to document, but here are a few of the lowlights.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) suffered a manpower crisis as Landrieu decimated the force, refusing to provide funding for new recruitment classes. The NOPD is still suffering from an understaffed department, compliments of Mitch Landrieu.

With too few police officers, the crime problem, especially murders, in New Orleans has exploded in recent years. In his final year in office, about 75% of murders were unsolved, thanks to a police force that is five hundred officers below minimum requirements. The roots of this crisis can be traced to Landrieu's historic bungling of the NOPD.

Along with mishandling the crime problem, Landrieu is best known for removing four historic monuments. He did not receive approval from voters for this act of destruction. In fact, he manufactured a controversy where none existed.

Today, nothing has replaced the tourist attractions that Landrieu destroyed, and the monuments remain locked in storage. Nothing has been done despite Landrieu's pledge that the monuments would find a new home and their former sites would be turned into new attractions.

LET’s LOOK AT MITCH LANDRIEU’s RECORD AS MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS:

As mayor, Landrieu did nothing to improve street conditions in the city. A major study conducted during his tenure as mayor indicated that just 14% of the streets were in satisfactory condition. One analyst noted that the Landrieu administration lacked the “senior level personnel” to operate a $2-billion program funded by FEMA that was designed to fix the long neglected streets of New Orleans.

Instead of fixing the horrific streets, Landrieu launched an ambitious project to build an unnecessary new airport. The $1.3-billion price tag was double what he promised and took years longer than projected to complete. The worst part of the project was that it was built before any access ramps were constructed from nearby Interstate-10.

The airport has been open two years, and the access ramps are still nowhere near finished. The perfectly fine old terminal has been turned into a glorified skating ramp for kids. What a waste of taxpayer funds, but to a progressive like Landrieu, there are always more public funds to waste on unnecessary projects.

Despite his horrific handling of a multitude of controversial issues, the worst aspect of Landrieu’s tenure as mayor involved his corrupt management of the Sewerage and Water Board. This utility is tasked with providing clean drinking water to the citizens of New Orleans, collecting sewerage, and draining flood waters from the streets of the city.

In a city that is several feet below sea level, this public utility has an extremely important responsibility. As mayor, Landrieu served as president of the Sewerage and Water Board. Unfortunately, his pathetic stewardship of the board led to severe flooding issues for the beleaguered people of New Orleans.

Landrieu installed a political crony, Cedric Grant, to serve as the well paid executive director of the board. Grant was a political veteran of several administrations but had no experience in engineering or water management.

In August of 2017, New Orleans was hit by a couple of rainstorms that turned into a catastrophic flood. While the city was flooding, Landrieu was partying with his fellow liberals at an Aspen Institute conference. He could not be bothered to return to New Orleans, so he left the crisis to be handled by the incompetent Cedric Grant.

Grant should have realized that the flooding was a result of sixteen pumps not operating. Instead, the Landrieu administration maintained that all the pumps were working perfectly, and Grant laughably blamed the flooding disaster on what else but climate change.

SWB is fighting words in the Big Easy. Truth is that even with all 148 pumps running the in most parts a century old system was designed when brand new and in perfect working order to handle only a inch of rain in the first hour and one quarter inch per hour after that. Anything more and the inflows exceed outflows and water starts to pool and eventually rise. There is no economical way to pump four or more inches per hour of rain that goes on for multiple hours. I nearly took a job as a Hydrogeologist for SWB I’m acutely aware of that systems capacity they needed a hydrogeo to help them with soil compaction and subsidence issue. Every time you dewater sediments you remove water between the pore spaces this water was holding those particles apart and represents significant amount of volume. Once drained even adding water back will never restore the previous volume as the grains habe either locked together or the strong nuclear force is binding them for clay and silt sized. New Orleans will.continue to subside as long as water is pumped out in great volumes than is in fully saturated sediments.

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