Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

Landrieu has also taught alternative dispute resolution as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Law School. He was elected Mayor of New Orleans on February 6 2010 garnering 66 per cent of the city-wide vote and claiming victory in 365 of the city's 366 voting precincts. Nagin and Landrieu faced each other in a run off election on May 20.

S. Beard and Sammy Kershaw. He is the son of former New Orleans mayor and Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Moon Landrieu and the brother of the senior U.