Mitch Landrieu

The mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018, Mitch Landrieu is the son of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the brother of former senator Mary Landrieu. He previously served as Louisiana’s lieutenant governor, a job he held during Hurricane Katrina. In May 2017 he gave a speech about the recent removal of New Orleans’ Confederate monuments: “To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past. It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are better for it.”