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Mitch Landrieu, A Harris Campaign Leader, Rules Out DNC Chair Run
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mitch Landrieu, A Harris Campaign Leader, Rules Out DNC Chair Run

Huff Post  

Mitch Landrieu, who oversaw the implementation of President Joe Biden's infrastructure law, speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 20, 2024. J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor and co-chair of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, is not running for chair of the Democratic National Committee, he told HuffPost on Monday. Asked whether he …

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Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Union Members. This Union Is Doing All It Can To Change That.
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Union Members. This Union Is Doing All It Can To Change That.

Huff Post  

SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN — Flanked by several leaders of the 13 building trades unions whose members are constructing a massive artificial intelligence data center in a rural area south of Milwaukee, Mitch Landrieu, the co-chair of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign and former White House infrastructure czar, had what looked like an easy task before him. But he emphasized the …

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Harris Campaign Co-Chair Clocks Media For Coverage Of 'Cray-Cray' Trump's Press Conference
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Harris Campaign Co-Chair Clocks Media For Coverage Of 'Cray-Cray' Trump's Press Conference

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Harris campaign national co-chair, in an interview with MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, pointed to Trump’s recent claim that he attracted a larger crowd at his Jan. 6, 2021, rally than Martin Luther King Jr. did for his “I Have A Dream” speech on the National Mall in 1963. “Now, if you just want to know if …

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White House infrastructure czar Landrieu leaving job and expected to make case for Biden reelection
1 year ago

White House infrastructure czar Landrieu leaving job and expected to make case for Biden reelection

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu is leaving his post after two years and is expected to help push publicly for President Joe Biden’s reelection. Biden said he knew Landrieu, who helped rebuild New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, was “the man to help me rebuild the country.” “Mitch has always known that the real measure of success …

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Biden’s team says progress on big public works projects may hinge on the outcome of the 2024 vote
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden’s team says progress on big public works projects may hinge on the outcome of the 2024 vote

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has started 40,000 construction projects since the passage of major infrastructure legislation two years ago and is seeking to make the case that continued progress could depend on keeping Joe Biden in the White House after 2024. “This whole thing could get thrown out of the window if somebody else was sitting over there and …

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White House: Tesla to make some EV chargers available to all
1 year, 10 months ago

White House: Tesla to make some EV chargers available to all

The Hindu  

Electric car giant Tesla will, for the first time, make some of its charging stations available to all U.S. electric vehicles by the end of next year, under a new plan announced Wednesday by the White House. The plan will make at least 7,500 chargers from Tesla's Supercharger and Destination Charger network available to non-Tesla EVs by the end of …

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Musk meets Biden's top officials to discuss ways to ramp up EV production
1 year, 11 months ago

Musk meets Biden's top officials to discuss ways to ramp up EV production

India Today  

Tesla's Chief Executive Elon Musk met two top White House officials on Friday in Washington to discuss how the car maker and Democratic President Joe Biden could work together to advance electric vehicle production and speed electrification of U.S. vehicle networks. Musk met John Podesta, a Democratic stalwart who serves as Biden's senior adviser for clean energy innovation, and Mitch …

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Biden pitchman Landrieu hawks infrastructure and hope
2 years, 2 months ago

Biden pitchman Landrieu hawks infrastructure and hope

Associated Press  

ELM CITY, N.C. — The man entrusted with promoting President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan barreled into this North Carolina town of 1,200 with the same rumbling intensity as the passing freight trains that shake anyone sitting in a chair. But Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor and the administration’s infrastructure coordinator, knows the diplomacy it requires. “I …

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Rural areas to get $759M in grants for high-speed internet
2 years, 2 months ago

Rural areas to get $759M in grants for high-speed internet

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Agriculture Department announced Thursday it is making available $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural communities to access high-speed internet, part of the broader $65 billion push for high-speed connectivity from last year’s infrastructure law. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu unveiled the grants during a visit to North …

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6 months in, Biden’s infrastructure plan has 4,300 projects
2 years, 7 months ago

6 months in, Biden’s infrastructure plan has 4,300 projects

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Six months after the signing of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, the government said Monday there are 4,300 projects underway with more than $110 billion in funding announced — milestones the administration is publicly heralding as midterm politics intensify. White House senior adviser Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans, said the roads, bridges and …

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Biden issues an infrastructure ‘roadmap’ to help spend $1T
2 years, 11 months ago

Biden issues an infrastructure ‘roadmap’ to help spend $1T

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged U.S. governors on Monday to ramp up their construction plans as his administration rolled out a guidebook for accessing the nearly $1 trillion made available by the bipartisan infrastructure deal. Biden welcomed governors to the White House on Monday as part of the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, and he cajoled them …

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Landrieu back in spotlight tackling infrastructure, equity
3 years, 1 month ago

Landrieu back in spotlight tackling infrastructure, equity

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu left office nearly four years ago, winning national accolades for removing landmark Confederate monuments after jump-starting the recovery from Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic levee failures and flooding. “He loves the geeky details of infrastructure and he loves bringing people together for great projects.” Andy Kopplin, a deputy mayor under Landrieu and chief …

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Former New Orleans mayor Landrieu to manage Biden’s $1T plan
3 years, 1 month ago

Former New Orleans mayor Landrieu to manage Biden’s $1T plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has chosen as supervisor of his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Mitch Landrieu, who as New Orleans mayor pushed the city into recovery after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. Landrieu, 61, was formerly the Louisiana lieutenant governor and took over as mayor of New Orleans in 2010, five years after Katrina swamped the city and as …

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How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’
3 years, 10 months ago

How Republican Politics (And Twitter) Created Ali Alexander, The Man Behind ‘Stop The Steal’

Huff Post  

High above Constitution Avenue, on a rooftop terrace, “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander gazed down at the U.S. Capitol and the chaos he’d helped unleash. On Twitter, Babbitt was in thrall to MAGA propagandists and Stop the Steal organizers such as Jack Posobiec — one of Alexander’s close friends and a prolific spreader of disinformation, including the Pizzagate sex …

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Reimagining policing will make us safer (opinion)
4 years, 6 months ago

Reimagining policing will make us safer (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mitch Landrieu is a CNN Political Commentator. CNN — The brutal death of George Floyd has rightly trained our eyes on systemic racism and bias in our criminal justice system and the long history of law enforcement’s excessive use of force, which is most often aimed at black Americans. Christy Lopez, a top DOJ Civil Rights Division official …

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President Trump, heed these five lessons from my career in disaster response (Opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

President Trump, heed these five lessons from my career in disaster response (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mitch Landrieu, who served as Louisiana’s Lieutenant Governor from 2004 to 2010 and mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018, is a CNN political commentator. But the fundamentals of what a solid response entails and recovery to an emergency are remarkably consistent across any level of government, whether it be a public health threat, natural disaster or …

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I traveled the American South looking for a way to solve racial divisions (Opinion)
5 years, 2 months ago

I traveled the American South looking for a way to solve racial divisions (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Mitch Landrieu, who served as mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018, and recently founded the E Pluribus Unum Fund to help break down barriers across race and class in the South, is a CNN political commentator. Many don’t understand history One of the major challenges is that many white people lack an understanding of the scale …

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On racial healing, Mitch Landrieu’s moment has arrived
5 years, 10 months ago

On racial healing, Mitch Landrieu’s moment has arrived

Associated Press  

It is the tragedy of America that a story of freedom, self-government, religious liberty, entrepreneurship and inclusion is also a story of forced migration, stolen labor, routine rape and murder, lynching, vote stealing, racist piety, segregation, red-lining and mass incarceration. “We always go around it, never through it,” former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu recently told me. If one of …

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