Buckhead Coalition Announces That the Louisiana Landrieu Name Inches Back into the National Arena as Mary Landrieu Addresses the Coalition

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Could it be the political bug has infected Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)? What else would induce her to put her toe in the water this long after the waters of Katrina? Any political science student knows her family name and its titles as Mayors, State Representatives, State Treasurer, HUD Secretary, and more.

In this case, she accepted a speaking engagement in other than her home state -- even when congress was in session. And, from an organization that doesn’t pay honorariums!

Well this is the season that popularity polls start forming, so whether or not she was considering a national office, she came up with a heart-warming cover.

The occasion was the January 25^th Annual Meeting of the Buckhead Coalition -- a powerful nonprofit civic group of Chief Executive Officers of major businesses in the very affluent northern quadrant of Atlanta, GA, called Buckhead. Attendance totaled 160 of the city’s most influential leaders.

Landrieu spoke about the rebirth of New Orleans; about her steps to create an “ecosystem for entrepreneurship”; about walkable, sustainable communities, and about sister-like city friendships.

Recognized as one of the most influential and bipartisan members of the U.S. Senate, she complimented Georgia’s two Republican members, and heralded the growth and progress developing in the twenty-eight-square-mile Buckhead Community, and the work of its president, Sam Massell, a former Mayor of Atlanta. In fact, it was this benchmark that brought it all together when she reported: “Daddy called and told me he had a request for help from Mayor Massell (who served Atlanta some forty years ago at the same time my dad, Moon Landrieu, was Mayor of New Orleans), and that he wasn’t telling me what to do but that it would be a favor to him.” It was then considered a done deal.

The function was attended by Atlanta’s current Mayor, Kasim Reed, thirteen of its fifteen City Council members, the editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, along with many other politicians and journalists.