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New Orleans mayor says flying economy unsafe for black women refuses to repay $30k of taxpayer cash · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi. I'm Jade Fallon, thank you for
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  listening to the slippery slope. Now if you've heard me talk
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  before, you will know that, I can't say that you should keep
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  politicians accountable you should make them accountable for
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  what they're doing. There's too much dishonesty
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  getting about in modern-day politics and it's just
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  disgusting is to see people should not be occurring.
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  They're supposed to be serving the city now also don't do a lot
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  of Stories on American politics. However, this one here, I have
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  to have a comment on it. This is some of the most
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  ridiculous. The most outlandish stories.
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  And I cannot believe the odds says she's.
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  It's the foolishness of this woman and she is just downright
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  lying, and I don't know if Shirley people cannot believe
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  this. This story comes from the Daily
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  Mail and it says, New Orleans, mayor says flying economy,
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  unsafe for black women, refuses to repay 30 Hi of taxpayer cash.
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  So the New Orleans Democrat me has declared economy class
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  flights unsafe for black women. Just all black women, or black
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  women economy class unsafe. So, you know, just go and jump
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  In First Class currently. So while she insisted, she won't
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  rip a thirty thousand dollars of taxpayer, money blown on first
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  class flights to France and Switzerland.
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  Wow. So speaking at a press Press
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  conference Thursday, Latoya Cantrell said, my travel
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  accommodations are a matter of safety, not luxury.
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  Of course. It's nothing to do with luxury,
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  it's nothing to do with the larger, you know, more space,
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  having more room to spread out, I think she has.
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  She had a bed. It's nothing to do with the
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  better food, the better service, nothing to do with that.
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  It's all about safety, okay. Anyway, he goes on to say as all
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  women. No health and safety are often.
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  Is regarded and we are left to navigate alone.
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  So now she's invoking the spirit of all women.
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  Okay, we're all in this together, it's all women.
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  So as the map as the mother of a young child, whom I live for
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  like since she's not just a woman, she's also a mother.
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  So you know all the mothers you've got to get on board as
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  well. I am going to protect myself by
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  any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there to see her
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  grow into the strong woman. And I am raising her to be I
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  again. Can anyone say no to this?
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  You, she has to fly first carts. She has to fly first class if
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  she doesn't fly first class and get that first-class meal in the
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  first class bed. How will she ever ever be able
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  to see her child grown? That's just ludicrous
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  outrageous. Preposterous anyway, he goes on
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  to say. Anyone who wants to question how
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  I protect myself. Just doesn't understand the
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  world black women. Again, there you go.
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  Now she's not just a woman, not just the mother, but she's a
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  black woman and you all have to agree with her.
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  It's a scary world for black women out there.
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  Josh should really, should, I just didn't understand what my
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  mother was going through all this year's.
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  I didn't understand it was so much scarier for her when she
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  was on a plane. She should have always been up
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  in first class. I'm a, I'm a bad son.
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  Okay. Anyway, she says, she has
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  repeatedly refused to repay the cost of a luxury American
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  Airlines flight from Washington. Duels airport to Switzerland for
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  herself in July, despite a city ban on luxury air travel.
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  So Cantrell spends around ten thousand dollars on her own
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  flatbed seat and blue. A similar amount on a first
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  class returns to France earlier this year.
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  While her aides traveled in coach, so as long as she's
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  apparently safe and it's got like I said it's got nothing to
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  do with the flatbed but nothing to do with the extra.
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  Extra service, the better food. It's her safety, but hey, AIDS.
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  Screw them. They can all sit in the back
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  into something goes wrong. I don't know what she thinks
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  gonna go wrong because I suppose we all know if a plane crashes
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  first class does not die. Anyway, goes on to say, Cantrell
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  has defended her purchase of the luxury tickets as her both doing
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  business on behalf of the city and because she believes it
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  wouldn't be safe for her to travel in economy class.
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  I got done, I don't know. Know how this woman can take
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  yourself seriously, I don't know how anyone is taking her.
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  Seriously, it goes on to say, while the me is that in first
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  class who team, including her security detail was seated in
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  coach, it's safer for her to sit in a class by herself and her
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  security detail, the sitting coach.
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  So the chief Administration officer has revealed.
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  How the law department is still examining whether Cantrell must
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  reimburse. Thirty thousand dollars in
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  taxpayer, money from Fisk plastic, is to France and
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  Switzerland. The mayor had an extremely
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  prickly response when questioned by journalists on Thursday, as
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  to whether she was considering forking out to replenish City
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  coffins, she says all expenses incurred doing business on
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  behalf of the City of New Orleans will not be reimbursed
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  to the City of New Orleans. Mayor Cantrell.
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  Said, speaking outside the Knicks Library one thing is
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  clear I do My job and I will continue to do it with
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  distinction and integrity. She she thinks she's doing it
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  with Integrity. Oh my goodness, every time,
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  every step of the way she says and so that's what I have to say
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  on that the mere insists that the troops and luxury travel
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  expenses were necessary in order to better New Orleans itself,
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  but the city's travel policy leaves little room for
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  manoeuvre, employees are required to purchase the lowest.
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  If a available employees who choose an upgrade from coach
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  economy or business class flights are solely responsible
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  for the difference in cost. The policy also State s any
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  reconciliation of travel expenses that results in
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  overpayment by the city requires that the employee room
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  reimburses the city within 20 business days.
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  The mayor's own staff tell Fox8, they are checking to see if the
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  city policy even applies to the mayor who is an elected official
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  and not Quickly hired by the city itself.
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  Okay, well sure that's how pretty sure you are hired by the
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  city anyway. So I think that's still under
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  review with law kind of determining the variations
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  between the ca0 policy, the election official policy, and
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  the different variations. Okay, if you're an elected
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  official, you are still working at the behest of the people that
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  you've been voted into represent.
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  I can't read anymore hand is this woman take yourself,
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  seriously? Does anyone in New Orleans?
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  Take her seriously? It reminds me there's a verse in
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  Proverbs in its, in Proverbs 14 and says, a wise woman, build
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  her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands.
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  She's pulling down her own house.
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  She supposed to be representing the people of New Orleans, but
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  she's a foolish woman. Pulling it down with their own
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  hands. She's destroying her own
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  credibility. Destroying destroying her own
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  reputation. She makes herself look like a
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  fool from what she's saying trying to sell this lie.
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  It is an absolute LIE. There's no way it is safer in
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  first class especially when your security detail a sitting back
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  in coach, she's lying to herself.
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  She's lying to the people of New Orleans.
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  And I do so hope the people of New Orleans will hold her
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  accountable for her lies. Do not let these politicians get
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  away with this rubbish. We need to hold them
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  accountable. This is just it's just
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  ludicrous. I just can't believe this kind
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  of stuff goes on. But anyway, like I said,
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  Proverbs 14 this one, the wise woman builds her house but the
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  foolish pulls it down with her hands.
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  So the New Orleans Democrat, mayor, Latoya, Cantrell.
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  You are truly being a foolish woman, that's my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.