Mitch Landrieu
Mitch Landrieu
Mitchell Joseph "Mitch" Landrieuis the Mayor of New Orleans. Landrieu previously served as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 August 1960
CountryUnited States of America
katrina lessons nation pay rita
Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
completed damage federal government
The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.
strong
The spirit's strong here. The city's going to get rebuilt over time.
new-orleans rocks people
The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.