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Landrieu back in spotlight with infrastructure task

NEW Orleans -- former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was elected four years ago, and he was awarded national recognition for his work in removing iconic Confederate monuments and launching the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina's devastating levee failures and floods.

A time when he was considered to be a possible candidate for president, Landrieu is back in an enormous way. He was selected this week by the president Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat to oversee over $1 trillion worth of federal infrastructure investment. His task, Biden said Thursday: "Making sure that everything is taken out and gets to where it is supposed to be."


"He's the ideal person to do this job," said Walter Isaacson who was a New Orleans-born journalist, historian and author who was involved in Katrina rehabilitation efforts. "He is fascinated by the technical aspects of infrastructure, and he enjoys working with people to create great projects."

"He has always been focused on making sure that the funds arrive in the appropriate time and that's the key in the coordination Kopplin will be charged with."

The Landrieu administration erased a deficit of more than $100 million and received billions in federal aid to speed forward a slow recover from Katrina under the former the mayor Ray Nagin, who later was in prison for corruption.

Under the leadership of Landrieu, New Orleans secured federal funding for the repair and redevelopment of police and fire stations library buildings, school buildings roads, drainage systems and public recreation areas which were destroyed when federally constructed levees collapsed due to the storm. Landrieu also supervised the development of a brand new, state-of-the-art international airport, which the officials from the city and state had been discussing for years.

Landrieu had landslide victories as a mayoral candidate in the years 2010 and 2014. He was a term-limited mayor after he was removed from the city in the year 2018 and his political prospects in the moment was unclear. While he twice had been elected lieutenant governor, his chances for a third statewide campaign were uncertain in a Republican state. Mary Landrieu, by then she had lost her post in the race to Republican Bill Cassidy and the state was awash in Donald Trump in 2016.

Landrieu's insistence on removing monuments, such as the huge sculpture of Robert E. Lee towering over St. Charles Avenue was controversial among white voters.

He was also in the spotlight towards the end of his term regarding violent crime and the slow progress of certain projects, and the myriad problems with the agency responsible for drinking water and drainage systems.

On the national level However Lee was often considered a potential 2020 contender in the race for Democratic Presidential nomination especially following being removed from the Lee statue as well as a speech in which he criticized the monuments as part of "a fictionalized clean and sanitized Confederacy."

He was adamant about the idea of national ambitions , and did not enter the race. He authored the publication of a book, gave political commentaries on CNN and also devoted his all of his time towards The E Pluribus Unum project, an organization he founded to help break down racial barriers.

An ex-state legislator, lieutenant governor and state senator. Landrieu has been deeply involved in politics of the progressive movement from his early years. Landrieu's father, Moon Landrieu, was a two-term mayor who introduced Black officials into city administration in the 1970s. He was also a member in the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carver and was later a judge. His sister is a three-term former U.S. Senator. Mary Landrieu.

Although his new job puts him in charge of large infrastructure projects, questions of race remain a concern.

"We have to repair lots of ports, bridges and roads as well as airports, rail lines and ports," Landrieu, 61 stated in an announcement issued on Monday morning. "And the issue of racial equity will be a major aspect of the construction of the historic infrastructure program."
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