EXPOSED: New Orleans Mayor spent obscene amount of taxpayer dollars to fly 1st class. “‘My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury,’ The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. ‘As all women know, our health and safety are often disregarded and we are left to navigate alone. As the mother of a young child whom I live for, I am going to protect myself by any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there to see her grow into the strong woman I am raising her to be. Anyone who wants to question how I protect myself just doesn’t understand the world Black women walk in.’”