President Biden’s infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu, in his last year as mayor of New Orleans, had to explain why—after billions in Katrina aid—the city was still vulnerable to floods. He says the experience prepared him for the job ahead.
: Catholic University, Washington, D.C.; Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.: Louisiana House of Representatives, 1988-2004; Louisiana lieutenant governor, 2004-2010; New Orleans mayor, 2010-2018.“Having someone like Landrieu in a role where he could serve as an honest broker and a referee between agencies, and force them to reach a conclusion, is unbelievably valuable,” he said.
Mitch Landrieu’s sister, Mary Landrieu, was a U.S. senator from 1997 to 2015 and then went to work for Van Ness Feldman LLP, an energy and environmental law-focused firm. Her highest-paying lobbying client is Enterprise Products Operating LP, a North American oil-and-gas pipeline company, lobbying records show.
"You can’t show me anything he’s delivered on with respect to climate change, or to pollution cleanup,” she said, noting the family’s long ties to the industry, which is one of the state’s biggest employers. Mr. Landrieu also has supported offshore drilling, one of the state’s largest industries. A federal financial disclosure shows that he paid himself more than $660,000 in 2020 and 2021 to run it. He also earned more than $1 million in that period as president of a Baton Rouge consulting firm, First Day LLC, whose clients included Bloomberg Philanthropies, Emerson Collective and the Rockefeller Foundation.
One early decision was to winnow the city’s hundreds of potential repair and rebuilding projects to a regularly updated list of 100 priority jobs, former city officials said. Even then, the city spent years addressing mismanagement of those projects, including jobs that had been bid to multiple vendors at once, one official said.
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