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LOUISIANA POLITICS: Mitch Landrieu, Low-Functioning Political Vampire, by Scott McKay – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Mitch Landrieu speaking with attendees at the 2023 Update from Capitol Hill hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona (Gage Skidmore/CC-BY-SA-2.0/Wikimedia Commons)

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator, April 21, 2026

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site.

 

Scott McKayTo this day, well more than a decade after the deed was done, an empty pedestal stands in one of New Orleans’ most prominent locations.

The pedestal, some 50 feet high, once housed one of the great triumphs of public art. It was a magnificent statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee built in 1884, and the small park around the statue was known — and still is known — as Lee Circle.

Lee’s statue was never very controversial in New Orleans, but amid the Hard Left’s outbreak of bowdlerization in the 2010s, it suddenly became a “public nuisance” in the eyes of the city’s mayor. …

Whose name was Mitch Landrieu. …