When news broke that a grand jury in New Orleans was investigating Attorney General Liz Murrill for threatening city leaders in letters, City Council member Matthew Willard was quick to anticipate political reverberations.
“Well we can kiss the bond funding goodbye for now,” Willard texted a colleague on June 30.
What followed was a series of hand-wringing exchanges and competing drafts of public letters aimed at dousing a raging controversy, by urging special prosecutor Laurie White to dismiss the 16 felony charges against Murrill. White quickly obliged…