TL;DR
Governor Landry and Mayor Moreno are exchanging letters because phones apparently don’t exist anymore. New Orleans needed $110 million. Then it didn’t. The governor is confused. The mayor is not. Twelve judges recused themselves. The President is still working on the Strait of Hormuz. Mother Nature, however, is doing just fine.
Key Points
- Mayor Moreno withdrew New Orleans’ $110 million bond application after learning the State Bond Commission would deny it — political retaliation for the grand jury indictment of AG Liz Murrill.
- Governor Landry responded by letter and social media, declining to meet in person, saying the state is not an ATM for the city, and declaring that no one has done more for New Orleans than him.
- Moreno’s letter featured a colon and boldface print — a grammatical double-down that communicates exactly what she thinks of the governor’s comprehension level.
- The only unified city response to the standoff so far: twelve judges recusing themselves from Liz Murrill’s pending intimidation case.
- On July 4th, some of the President’s supporters had to shelter from the storm inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mother Nature had thoughts.
Mayor Moreno And Governor Landry Got Beef. And Is The President Insane?
Mayor Moreno and Governor Landry are exchanging letters — because apparently, in this alternative universe, phones don’t exist.
The letter Mayor Moreno sent was four pages long. Unlike Aaliyah, she did not enclose it with a kiss.
When asked to circle yes or no on whether he’d like to meet in person, Governor Landry circled no. Emphatically. Then posted it on X.
It has come to our attention that the President of the United States is an unstable person and, in all likelihood, a habitual liar. This is an unfolding story.
The Quote That Started Everything
“How is it that the City of New Orleans one day needs $110 million and today it does not?”
That’s Governor Landry, from one of the aforementioned letters. Note the absence of “doesn’t.” “Doesn’t” just isn’t as emphatic an ending as “does not.” In the latter, you can picture the governor — voice raised, finger wagging.
The governor was perplexed that Mayor Moreno withdrew a request to sell $110 million in bonds she’d been counting on to help balance the budget. Mayor Moreno, perplexed at his perplexity, responded.
“The answer is straightforward,” she said. “After it became clear that approval at the Bond Commission was unlikely, we developed an alternative plan to make it through the remainder of 2026.”
In other words: you left us hanging, 🦮. So we handled it.
Meanwhile, In Another Dimension
At the time of this writing, the President is still begging Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — because apparently, in this alternative universe, he never considered they might close it if we went to war with them.
A month ago, he vowed Iran would face the big Or Else if the Strait wasn’t reopened. This was said after several previous Or Elses had failed to materialize. We’ve since lost count. What we can say with confidence is that they appear to grow in size with each successive vow.
A Grammar Lesson From City Hall
Mayor Moreno’s letter contained a colon and boldface print. Combined, they constitute a grammatical assessment of what she thinks of the governor’s comprehension level. Both devices signal emphasis. They say: pay attention, this matters.
That she employed both simultaneously can only mean one thing. She thinks he’s dense.
These letters are deeply seasoned.
No One Has Done More
“No one has done more for New Orleans than me!”
Yes, that’s Governor Landry doing his President Trump impression. And to be fair — he’s right. No one has done more. Where to begin?
He’s championed big, beautiful legislation making prison more accessible to our youth — and ensured they’ll serve maximum sentences once inside. He disenfranchised voters by eliminating the Clerk of Criminal Court position because he didn’t like the election results. He line-item-vetoed millions from the city’s state budget allocation. The man has truly embodied the phrase “doing the most.”
The Lincoln Memorial Update
In April, the President promised the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be freshly painted and algae-free for the next fifty years. Two months later, the paint is peeling and the algae is blooming. The President has blamed liberals with box cutters.
Given his well-documented propensity for exaggeration, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the President never actually grabbed a woman by the… well. He may have wanted to. He may have dreamt about it. But the act itself? Hyperbole.
The Only Unified Response
As of this writing, the only unified response the city has mustered to the Landry-Moreno standoff is twelve judges recusing themselves from Attorney General Liz Murrill’s pending intimidation case.
During the country’s 250th anniversary celebration on July 4th, the storms got so bad that some of the President’s supporters had to take shelter inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture — because apparently, in this alternative universe, Mother Nature still has a sense of humor.
Picture them scrambling in from the rain. Looking around. Confused. Wait — I thought we had all this erased.
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Kenneth Cooper writes the collage column for Black Source Media. He covers multiple topics per piece, delivers verdicts without citations, and finds the thing everyone else is too polite to say out loud.
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Kenneth Cooper is a veteran New Orleans journalist whose column, Cooper’s Collage, has become one of Black Source Media’s most distinctive voices. He writes the way New Orleans thinks — in multiple directions at once, connecting the sardonic to the serious, the political to the personal, never letting a target escape without a precisely aimed observation.
Cooper covers Louisiana and New Orleans politics, Saints football, and the cultural life of Black New Orleans with the authority that comes from decades of watching the same cast of characters fail in the same predictable ways. His format is the collage — several subjects, one through-line, each section ending with a pivot that lands harder than it looked coming.
He is unimpressed by politicians of any party and unafraid of uncomfortable truths. He does not perform outrage. He delivers verdicts. Cooper’s Collage publishes on Black Source Media and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand New Orleans without the official version.
