NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson took the opportunity at a public campaign forum Tuesday (July 29) to suggest the May 16 jailbreak by 10 inmates at the facility she oversees was politically motivated.
Hutson made the remark in response to a question submitted by someone at the Step Up for Action forum at the Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Broadmoor.
With less than 11 weeks before the primary election, the incumbent Hutson joined four of her five challengers in her bid for a second term. Fellow Democrats Bob Murray, Julian Parker, Edwin Shorty Jr. and Michelle Woodfork attended the forum, while Republican Ernest Lee Sr. did not…