CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Cashing Out: Jindal’s Agenda Opposed by the Majority of Louisianans; Personal Favorability at All-Time Low

    On Tuesday, October 2, 2012, pollster Bernie Pinsonat of the group Southern Media and Opinions announced the results of the scientific poll he and his organization had conduced in Louisiana. As Clancy DuBos of The Gambit points out, the poll, somewhat ironically, was commissioned and paid for by Baton Rouge conservative Lane Grigsby, a man who has, throughout the years, invested thousands of dollars to support a variety of “down-ticket” candidates, most notably a roster of candidates that Governor Jindal had endorsed for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Ordinarily, fairly or not, critics would have been prepared to downplay…

  • Fox News’s Self-Imploding Bombshell

    Seven months ago, shortly after the death of conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart, the brain trust that inherited his “media empire” announced they had “bombshell” footage of a young Barack Obama, footage they claimed would prove, once and for all, that President Obama was a radical racist. Sean Hannity and Fox News salivated, teasing the story for hours, promising an “exclusive” that would forever change the way Americans thought of the President. And as it turned out, the story was nothing more than a recycled video that had aired on PBS in 2008 of Barack Obama, as a law school student,…

  • Louisiana Superintendent John White Continues to Shield Records on Voucher Program; Hires High-Priced PR Consultant to Lead Communications

      For over three months, Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White has refused to release records detailing the criteria and the process by which he and his department used to determine the eligibility of schools seeking to participate in the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, more commonly known as Louisiana’s voucher program. Put more simply and plainly, for over three months, John White has concealed any and all records related to how he decided which private schools were eligible for a massive infusion of taxpayer funding. He’s refused to give parents information on how these schools were ranked, how the…