“Used to be, the saying was, ‘Where goes New Orleans, where goes the state,’” Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters this month. “That has changed.”
If New Orleans’ standing has fallen, it fell on his watch. A governor dismissing his own state’s largest city is not a burn. It is a confession.
And the audience is bigger than he thinks. Not just the state. Not just the country. The world is watching Louisiana right now — watching a sitting attorney general indicted on 16 felony counts in a fight over who controls a New Orleans courthouse…