A few weeks ago, we queried a lot of people in town. We wanted to know who–or what group of people–was the brainchild behind the famous One Levee Board campaign. We knew that “Citizens for 1” led the campaign to get statewide support for the new levee board legislation, but who was the creator or creators? No one could answer our question.
We had a hunch, but today Clancy Dubos confirmed it in his blog post.
According to Clancy, the Greater New Orleans Business Council was the driver, and perhaps the brainchild, of the One Levee Board campaign. We checked the Business Council’s website. It says it “played a key role in the reorganization of levee board governance by championing the creation of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority“