Update: Hedge-Morrell, Johnson met with mayor before boycotting Wednesday and Thursday meetings
 

According to Cynthia Hedge-Morrell's personal calendar, which was obtained by Gambit through a public records request, she and fellow absentee Council member Jon Johnson were scheduled to meet with Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Tuesday May 15, the day before City Council was scheduled to meet to wrap up its unfinished May 3 agenda.


Lena Stewart, Hedge-Morrell's chief of staff, confirmed that the meeting with Landrieu did, indeed, take place as scheduled.? [ Read more ]

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