NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s trip to the French Riviera last month cost more than $50,000, but it is still unclear if taxpayers foot the entire bill.
More than a month after requiring a public records request for the public to learn who traveled with Cantrell to Nice, the city’s law department released the names and travel expenses. The entourage included Robert Monlyn for executive protection, Rosine Pema Sanga with intergovernmental relations and Austin Feldbaum with the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
“She’s traveling out of the country. You know, the normal security engagement rules don’t apply,” said Dillard University political analyst Robert Collins. “A New Orleans police officer cannot even carry their weapon through customs when they go to a foreign country.”…