Local councilwoman Jackie Clarkson earned herself a float in KDV as a result of her push to remove benches from the Jackson Square area in an effort to curtail the indigenous homeless population who dwelled therein. She apparently felt the need to sit down around the park and St. Louis Cathedral was peripheral to the need to crack down on vagrants. She's become quite popular among the artist community for her rather misguided attempts to "clean up" the French Quarter.