USA Today LaToya Cantrell, a City Council member who first gained a political following as she worked to help her hard-hit neighborhood recover from Hurricane Katrina, was elected the next mayor of New Orleans in a landslide victory.
The historic election made her the first woman mayor in the city's 300-year history.
Cantrell defeated fellow Democrat Desiree Charbonnet with 60% of the vote in the two-person runoff to take the city's top elected spot after a month long campaign.
Based on early returns, Cantrell likely benefited from African-American voters, WWL-TV pollster Ron Faucheux said. Meanwhile, Charbonnet, a former Municipal Court judge, appeared to take the white vote by about 30%; both candidates are black women.
2 comments:
Wow--but I couldn't care less. Is she a socialist? Does she favor workers over capital? If so, great. If not, her gender is irrelevant.
Hmmm...
In New Orleans, gender would be important.
If male, he'd be Bob. Could be funny! Unfortunately.
If female, Bobette. Loses something.
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