The New Orleans City Council was put in a position to vote to change the locks on an apartment in the famous Pontalba Apartment Building on Jackson Square in the French Quarter. As if the City Council doesn’t have more important things to deal with than to spend time responding to the immature behavior of Mayor Cantrell.
The mayor had apparently refused to give up the key to the apartment unit in the Pontalba Building controlled by the city of New Orleans. According to city rules, the apartment was to be used to offer various dignitaries visiting the city a place to stay, but Mayor LaToya Cantrell abused her access to the apartment spending hours day after day in the company of an NOPD officer assigned as her security - her “boottyguard.”
Throughout the disagreement over the Pontalba apartment, Cantrell maintained an arrogant attitude and insisted that she was entitled to use the apartment at her discretion, which was determined to be in direct violation of city rules.
Mayor Cantrell has forced the City Council to spend valuable time dealing with her misuse of the apartment. The most recent council vote gives Cantrell until March 21 to remove her personal belongings from the apartment. Maintaining her arrogance, Cantrell did not specify whether or not she still had a key to the apartment, which necessitates the locks be changed.
The fact that LaToya Cantrell continues to defy the ruling against her and will not be specific about whether or not she still has a key to the apartment further proves that Cantrell operates from a position of child-like arrogance. Mayor Cantrell remains under a federal investigation.
But Mayor Cantrell is not alone in her arrogant mindset. Mayor Tiffany Henyard of Dolton, Illinois is under federal investigation for misusing taxpayer money when she traveled first class on trips to Las Vegas and spending money on beauty vendors and over $1 million on police detail. This somewhat mirrors the behavior of Mayor Cantrell. Like Cantrell, Henyard blamed the investigation on her being a woman in power. There seems to be plenty of evidence that power breeds corruption.
The city of New Orleans has serious problems with crime and sewage and the City Council should not have to spend time on an issue like changing the locks on an apartment after the mayor was evicted for misusing it for her own personal use.
