Today, governor-elect Jeff Landry's transition committee on New Orleans meets for the first time, in Lafayette -- but is the committee just a political middle finger to the Crescent City?
"It seems like a big flip-off," said WWL TV political commentator Clancy DuBos. "It looks like he wants to change things from the outside."
DuBos says the committee that Landry put together includes very few elected leaders from New Orleans, and none from New Orleans City Hall or New Orleans law enforcement.
"This committee is somehow going to address the problems of the city and I'm not sure how you do that without engaging anyone who has authority in the city," said DuBos. "He has to engage the folks who the citizens of New Orleans have elected to solve the problems of the city."
DuBos says otherwise, it looks like Landry is at best grandstanding, or at worst, plotting a political takeover like Huey Long attempted nearly 100 years ago.