Posted on 09/11/2022 2:20:33 AM PDT by Libloather
New Orleans Democrat mayor has declared economy class flights unsafe for black women, while insisting she wont repay $30,000 of taxpayers' money blown on first-class flights to France and Switzerland.
Speaking at a press conference Thursday, LaToya Cantrell said: 'My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury.
As all women know, our health and safety are often disregarded and we are left to navigate alone.
'As the mother of a young child whom I live for, I am going to protect myself by any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there to see her grow into the strong woman I am raising her to be.
'Anyone who wants to question how I protect myself just doesn't understand the world black women walk in.'
She has repeatedly refused to repay the cost of a luxury American Airlines flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Switzerland for herself in July, despite a city ban on luxury air travel.
Cantrell spent around $10,000 on her own flat bed seat and blew a similar amount on a first-class return to France earlier this year - while her aides traveled in coach.
Cantrell has defended her purchase of the luxury tickets as her both 'doing business' on behalf of the city and because she believes it wouldn't be safe for her to travel in economy class.
While the mayor sat in first-class, her team, including her security detail, were seated in coach.
The Chief Administrative Officer has revealed how the law department is still examining whether Cantrell must reimburse almost $30,000 in taxpayer money for first-class tickets to France and Switzerland.
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lol...I’ve had the same experience - except it was also the very last row on the airplane that didn’t have reclining seats.
I call it “scum class” ;p
In fact, throughout all of history, I cannot find another example of any other race, as a whole, who have ever acted in such a fashion. You think those 'underprivileged' people would be grateful. No, they will leverage it so that they rule the roost. Witness their behaviors in the present day.
I flew in the middle seat two weeks ago. Was blessed that the window seat passenger was a young Marine who was going home for 10 days after graduating from Boot Camp. We chatted for the entire flight.
Another politician that thinks her race gives her certain entitlements above the citizens she works for.
LOL - so there weren't any black women on LaToya Cantrell team? Black women fighting for their lives while white MAGA passengers tried to enslave them? What a fool. She s typical democrat - all liar, all day, all the time...
The only newscaster corrupt enough to believe this vile woman is Chuck Todd. He'll buy her lies about being afraid to fly with middle class MAGA passengers - just like he bought VP Harris' lies.
LOL - so there weren't any black women on LaToya Cantrell team? Black women fighting for their lives while white MAGA passengers tried to enslave them? What a fool. She s typical democrat - all liar, all day, all the time...
The only newscaster corrupt enough to believe this vile woman is Chuck Todd. He'll buy her lies just like he bought Harris' lies. Now we're all 'honest journalists' deniers...
She defends criminals in court too. Biden may put her on the Supreme Court next.
Thanks for making me laugh.
The best bet would be to contact the airlines she used on her trip, and to tell them that she called their tourist class seating “unsafe for black women”.
Not only will the airlines get apoplectic about it, but they will likely put her on their “bad customer” list, or even the federal “no fly” list.
I used to catch space a space A flight from Delaware to Germany. I would leave Fort Bragg, NC and take any plane from Pope AFB to Dover. I recall flying on AF jets, but; I was also on C-130’s plus I flew from Wiesbaden to the Azores with an SF MSG in a C-124. Anyone who has served knows how slow that cargo plane is. This witch needs to sit on pallets. Then she might appreciate the jets.
I’d bet a huge percentage of “her” voters cheered her on as she lived it up in luxury - a grotesque role model for them, who are all about “getting over”.
Let them eat cake.
Black “leaders” have never run anything for the betterment of their constituents. It is always for the hustle and getting even with “the system.” Coleman Young paved the way and showed how it is done.
As I recall, she was exploiting a recent trend involving "sister cities" - signing of proclamations, exchanging of cultural gifts, etc. (in Switzerland, the city is Ascona - on the southern Swiss border with Italy). Like New Orleans, Ascona hosts some sort of annual jazz music festival... so promoting tourism seems to have been the selling point for the trip. I assume the destination in France was similar, possibly a follow-up visit to a "sister city" already established by Mitch Landrieu.
I've noticed that these trips are always one-way. Mayors of U.S. cities set up these "relationships" as excuses for overseas travel, but you rarely hear of any foreign officials traveling to the U.S. for similar reasons.
Of course, the greatest irony is that New Orleans tourism lives or dies based on the perceived safety level of the city. In that regard, Miz Cantrell has been acting to kill tourism since she took office.
“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
We should be grateful.
The last time I flew coach I got stuck in a middle seat with a 400 lb. ghettopotamus in the aisle seat. Being buried for 2 hours under all those rolls of blubber was one of the most traumatic experiences of my entire life.
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Poor you! My wife was seat mates with Dan Rather from Oklahoma City to Chicago.
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