Report – Campaign to Recall New Orleans’ Democrat Mayor Has Enough Signatures: ‘You’re About to Be Fired’Amy Furr 26 Feb 2023
A group working to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) has reportedly collected the signatures needed to put her second term at risk, the news coming as the city endures rampant crime.
“Right now our mayor doesn’t love New Orleans so the citizens and the residents stood up. We’re taking our city back, and we’re gonna save New Orleans,” vice chair of the No LaToya recall campaign, Eileen Carter, told Fox News this week.
In August, the petition was filed by Carter and Belton “Noonie Man” Baptiste, then it was confirmed by the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office, Breitbart News reported at the time.
On Wednesday, the organizers gave the petition with signatures to the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters office. They reportedly gathered over 50,000 signatures, and claimed they exceeded that number.
Video footage shows the group moving boxes full of signatures out of a van, and Carter, who used to work in the mayor’s social media department, said organizers had long been “playing a game of strategy.”
“They thought we were just some residents who don’t know anything. But we stand here today, and so we ask you to trust us, and to continue on this,” she commented during a recent news conference:
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