Due to an overabundance of devotion to her constituency and a sharp sense of financial prudence, Mayor LaToya Cantrell decided to veto the budget proposed by the New Orleans City Council and Mayor-elect Helena Moreno.
“As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure that New Orleans operates with a balanced, sustainable, and legally sound budget,” Cantrell said in a statement Friday, where she explains how the “amendments passed by the City Council rely on revenue that is uncertain, unverified, or based on one-time sources.”
I’m sure I speak for most of us when I say: Thank God we’ve had such a principled leader over these past 8 years. Otherwise, we might have found ourselves $160 million in the hole for 2025; and staring down the barrel of a $222 million deficit for 2026; and having to watch our leaders high-tail it to Baton Rouge to figure out how the hell we’re going to pay essential city workers through the rest of the year…