Posted on 03/22/2023 6:24:14 AM PDT by rktman
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell can rest easy for now. The recall petition that was organized in an attempt to oust her from office failed because it did not collect enough signatures. The total number of signatures on the petition fell short of the necessary number needed to proceed with the recall process. If enough signatures had been collected and verified, the voters would have had the opportunity to go to the polls and vote on the matter. Alas, it was not meant to be.
According to Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters Sandra Wilson, recall organizers collected just 27,243 valid signatures during their six-month, $1.2 million push to depose Cantrell, whose popularity had plummeted amid voter discontent over crime and other issues.
That figure, which Wilson reported to Gov. John Bel Edwards, was some 18,000 signatures short of the nearly 45,000 signatures needed to trigger a recall election.
Oh well. New Orleans’s corrupt government lives on. What a shock. I love the city, or I did until the murders and other crimes got completely out of control. I have not visited the city in a while.
New Orleans has had a Democrat mayor since 1872. Every single one of them. No one thinks a Republican can beat the incumbent Democrat. The co-organizers of the recall were both Democrats. It’s a Democrat city but the State of Louisiana is mostly a red state. Governor John Bel Edwards is a Democrat but a more moderate Democrat than most. For instance, he is unapologetically pro-life.
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Need 45,000 signatures.
That is $26.67 per signature.
If they mailed a recall form to every registered Republican in New Orleans, and followed up with phone calls, they could have hit 45,000.
Unfortunately, 70% of New Orleans is non-white.
Trying to hit more than 50% recall votes in the general election would have been difficult.
But, Chicago did it, and they are 67% non-white.
“Africa always wins”, New Orleans style.
God Bless CC and its vanilla suburbs.
I have a niece who lives in New Orleans. They have to lock the steering wheels on their cars and barricade their doors every night. Anything left outside is stolen including their kid’s toys. She wants to move but her artist husband likes the New Orlean’s “vibe”
43% of New Orleans residents cannot read or write.
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