Posted on 02/26/2023 4:56:32 AM PST by Libloather
NEW ORLEANS - Organizers seeking to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell from office said they collected enough signatures to put the city leader’s second term at risk.
"Right now our mayor doesn’t love New Orleans so the citizens and the residents stood up," Eileen Carter, vice chair of the No LaToya recall campaign, told Fox News. "We’re taking our city back, and we’re gonna save New Orleans."
The campaign's chairman, Belden Baptiste, and Carter launched the recall effort to remove Cantrell from office in August 2022. The organizers handed the petition filled with signatures to the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters office on Wednesday. The Feb. 22 deadline required them to hand in around 50,000 signatures, which the organizers say they exceeded.
"Mayor LaToya, it ain't that we hate you," Baptiste told Fox News. "You didn't do your job, and you're about to be fired."
**SNIP**
"People are fearful," Carter said. "This administration hasn't risen to the occasion that we need right now. Quality of life standards are just diminishing."
Carter said many streets are filled with potholes, and buildings are riddled with busted windows. A few New Orleans residents that spoke to Fox News also supported the recall effort.
"The mayor has stopped working," Sally, a longtime New Orleans resident, said. "She’s a smart woman, and she’s capable, but she’s just flat out stopped working."
Babs, also of the Big Easy, said many of her friends are afraid to sign the petition in fear of retaliation.
"Cantrell will be bitter. She will go after people," Babs said. "They don’t want retribution against them, but they will vote for it when it goes to an election."
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A spokesperson for the mayor previously labeled the recall campaign a "Republican-backed maneuver by people with an agenda" to "undermine and discredit the first Black woman mayor of New Orleans."
The ballot box isn’t working. Time for that last resort box.
I just made my first trip to New Orleans a couple weeks ago. We were in the tourist areas for a trade show. My wife joined me and did a lot of touristy things during the day.
While we enjoyed it, the city could really use some competent leadership. There were plenty of Recall the Mayor billboards
“undermine and discredit the first Black woman mayor of New Orleans”
Yeah I’m thinking she already did that to herself
I’m guessing New Orleans is still a Chocolate City, as per Mayor Ray?
Katrina was a blessing in disguise. Heard a local say it.
Not just the Mayor of DC!
It it TIME to #DownSize_DC!
Why are they mad at the mayor?
She ain’t doing anything.
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