[brucedickinson]

“The cultural and economic and the spiritual loss to this city for having those statues up that have run people out of the city,” Landrieu claimed. “The great migration that sent some of our best and brightest to places across the country that we don’t have the benefit of has been incredible.”

Katrina and the huge spike in crime have nothing to do with people leaving. It's those scary Civil War monuments that keep the "best and the Brightest" up at night. When I think of New Orleans, the first thing I think of is, "The Best and the Brightest."

Well, actually I think of 1) Voodoo and 2) Shrimp. But there you go.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, it’s the monuments. Go back to sleep moron.

[SkyPilot]

Maybe, just maybe, high crime rates, welfare, illigitmacy, drugs, and urban war zones caused the best and brightest to leave your city.

[JBW1949]

Landrieu, wearing ear covers and covering eyes, saying, “History didn’t happen...History didn’t happen...Na Na Na Na!!!”

[nevergore]

"Civil War Monuments Caused a ‘Great Migration’ Out of the City ("Best and Brightest") "

The cause of the best and the brightest leaving NOLA is constaint corrupt and incompetent Democratic rule.....

Now that the best and brightest have left, all there is left is dimwitted syncopaths...now the NOLA Mayor is the King of the dimwits.....

[Zakeet]

[liberalism is suicide]

If he means by “best and brightest” liberals, the city may be better off without them.

[piasa]

Can the average Democrat even tell the difference between a statue depicting a civil war era individual and one depicting an individual from the War of 1812 or even World War 1? I highly doubt it.

[Ann Archy]

CRIME sent you best and brightest out of you pithole city, Mitchey.

[MileHi]

I’d like to see him prove that.

[bgill]

The Great Statue Migration of 2017. Hmm, I must have missed that one. He should prove it with the demographics stats.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Wow! The NOLAs elected another total nut job. They seem to not be able to help themselves. Morons are their preferred “leaders”.

[ataDude]

Used to be one of my favorite vacation spots. Never again. Ever.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

The crime and black on white racism had nothing at all to do with it.

It was the old monuments that people hardly noticed.

Even though most of them had no idea who these people were it was the monuments that did it.

Honest!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Like a bad Japanese movie, after dark those statues come to life and stalk the city, causing chaos, crime, hurricanes! Hunting down educated people with money and scaring them away!

OH NOES!

[Squantos]

NOLA won’t get my tourism ...... I’ll even bypass Louisiana when driving down to Florida next winter...... voting with my dollars.

[freeandfreezing]

"those statues up that have run people out of the city,” Landrieu claimed...

If it was that simple we could run the leftist Democrats out of Washington DC and San Francisco with a few well placed statues. Somehow I don't think it would work, but maybe if we placed giant statues of Trump, Steve Bannon, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz,Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and even our own Jim Robinson all over DC we could get some Democrats to move out.

[John S Mosby]

What utter mackdaddy mulatto grafter politician crapola. It’s been 12 years and multiple federal investigations with convictions (including the chocolate city mayor) since Hurricane Katrina. Katrina forced long time small business residents (black majority, church going, and other race businesses) to leave and stay gone, and they have been replaced by opportunists from the obamaumao era. ACORN and SJWs with white guilt and BLM actuating the “change”. Mixed in with liberal a@@holes of the marxist/liberation persuasion who have tried to erase the history of New Orleans as a melting pot.

A melting pot that was taken over by (the “Beast”) Union Gen. Butler, and his grafting son-in-law Ames ( George Plimpton a direct descendant, btw) and a horrific period during Reconstruction of absolute graft that took over and ran (along with corrupt police, drug dealing lawyers, and a host of the spectrum of city destroying actors)the city with their descendants for decades, despite peaceful and violent efforts to reclaim the city by the original owner and displace the carpetbaggers.

Here we have a political machine democrat, from the Landrieus... they of mixed and questionable heritage (and no, they are not Creoles, LOL), definitely on the payola bandwagon. Right up there with the “freezer full of cash” congressman Jefferson of the 9th Ward, who is still in the federal pen. Rep. Alcee Hastings is proud, proud to know the Landrieus.

Get this, Mayor— we know what you are doing removing the monuments, and will not forget. Nor will we forget your “rewriting history” in the process with donated monuments to the leaders who brought the South out of Reconstruction- who survived the oligarchy of self-righteous puritan yankee liberals, lining their pockets. We know that you are directing the monuments to your pal’s utterly failing “Slavery” museum— failing because people definitely don’t come to NOLA to visit a god-d@#d slavery museum- and you want to place these monuments there to help out your slobbering street ape supporters.

The monuments removal is being paid for by the owner of the slavery museum. A political pal of Landrieu, named Cummings. “Museums, not monuments”... that is the mantra.
Double benefit— the erasing of a major part of the great history of New Orleans- so you can make it about drunk a@@holes on Bourbon Street and BS culinary derivative crap from your mob buddies. Duplicity and mendacity— the legacy of Landrieu and all over the US where history is being “re-written” Soviet like, hmm?

Here’s some help,Mayor: Heroin, meth, ecstasy— dopers on every corner and your corrupt police— that is your legacy. Destroying every decent memory of actual history of the first attempt to break free of tyrannical unconstitutional government. A tyrannical government who had no solution or intention for the freed slaves once they destroyed a people and nearly the culture. And now claiming that culture as your own— which it is not.

Tell us again, Mitch, about the “brain trust” of these morons who are staying in the city, as an attractant for business. Right— what, the silicon valley of LA? What a laugh.

Here is Gavin MacInne’s show clip about the museum owing pal and the truth of the matter (caution language— from a fake “Antifa” commie character, played by Gavin, and other content). The Antifa, rich white kids playing “nazi-bashers”. And it is all a LIE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-kT0asiLw

[hanamizu]

At last, someone has figured out why St Louis, Mo has lost over half its population since 1950—it’s the Confederate War Memorial! Thank goodness, St Louis now has a mayor courageous enough to demand its removal. Before you know it, the population will be back up around 800,000.

[SaxxonWoods]

Now that’s funny right there.

[LouAvul]

Yes, New Orleans’ best and brightest did leave. They currently are languishing in prisons around the country.