Fox 8 News in New Orleans had a story on a survey done by a coalition of anti-crime organizations which spat out some pretty discouraging numbers for the city’s mayor LaToya Cantrell. And the mayor’s reaction was, well, we’ll call it “less than hinged.”

Mayor LaToya Cantrell says she doesn’t embrace a recent crime coalition survey that puts her approval rating at just 30 percent. Meanwhile, the head of the New Orleans Crime Coalition says the numbers don’t lie.

“We did not set out to have a battle with the mayor on this but we knew she would be unhappy with it,” Michael Cowan said.

Cowan is the chairman of the New Orleans Crime Coalition. He says the coalition’s recent survey of 800 residents, finds 72 percent of people are displeased with the direction the city is heading.

“It’s a terrible number and it’s hard to generate a hopeful future out of so many people feeling that way,” Cowan stated.

The survey finds Mayor Cantrell has a 24 percent approval rating for her handling of crime and just a 30 percent approval rating overall.

“I will speak to the approval rating of this group that I don’t embrace at all, it’s not accurate at all and not only that it’s a disservice, it’s a disservice to the men and women that show up despite the negativity, the 800 people who responded to that out of 340 thousand people in this city, in addition to the visitor population, so I do not embrace that at all,” Cantrell said Thursday.

Cowan says Cantrell could learn something from the report.

“Ignoring facts is never a good basis for leadership,” Cowan said.

The written word really doesn’t do justice to Cantrell’s bitchy, defiant response to the question about her poll numbers. So here’s the video of that Fox 8 piece from Friday…

We could launch into a whole diatribe about how Cantrell is the uncontested worst mayor in America now that Lori Lightfoot isn’t around to give her a run for her money anymore, but you’ve seen us do that stuff.

What we can add to this is it’s not really a surprise that she would lose her marbles over that poll, because it does violence to her bubble of self-gratification built by the failure of the recall effort against her. She figured that was a validation of her tenure as mayor; it wasn’t. Recalls are incredibly difficult to make happen because by signing a recall you are literally putting yourself on an enemies list and there are usually a whole lot more people who aren’t willing to do that than who are, even among folks who support the goal of the recall.

Which isn’t a reason not to do a recall, it’s just a statement of how tough a project it is.

And when the recall falls short, the recallee thinks her poop doesn’t stink.

Along comes a poll which puts her at 30 percent approval, and just 24 percent where it comes to crime – imagine that? People don’t think that the mayor who sits with the juvenile carjacker’s family in the courtroom isn’t good on crime! – and she’s forced to realize that her poop definitely does stink.

Which can be jarring for a politician. Especially a stupid and arrogant one.

In a couple of years she’ll be gone from politics, because she isn’t electable for congress or anything statewide, and New Orleans will start over with a new mayor. Problem is, all of Cantrell’s potential successors look to offer the same stupidity and arrogance that she does.