CenLamar | Est. 2006

By Lynda Woolard On April 2nd, Louisiana Democrats will determine the leadership of our party for the next four years. I am writing to make the case that the Louisiana Democratic Party is in good hands with Karen Carter Peterson and that Sen. Peterson deserves to be rewarded with another term as the party’s chairwoman. I worked with Chairwoman Peterson at the party for three years as the lead organizer for Team Blue Dat, our network of grassroots activists. Today,  I no longer work for the party or for any partisan organization or candidate. My endorsement of Sen. Peterson’s candidacy is not based…

According to the most recent poll released by Make Louisiana Proud, a SuperPAC affiliated with State Treasurer John Kennedy’s campaign for U.S. Senate, Kennedy maintains a commanding lead over his rivals, garnering more than twice the support of his closest competitor, fellow Republican and U.S. Congressman Charles Boustany. The election is still more than seven months away, and the field is already enormously crowded, with at least ten candidates who have either announced or speculated to announce in the near future. The poll, conducted by Survey USA, shows Kennedy ahead of the pack of Republicans with 21%, followed by Boustany…

Days after State Treasurer John Kennedy unfairly and falsely criticized former Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne for purchasing and installing $1.1 million in public art at the newly-opened $1.1 billion University Medical Center in New Orleans, a program mandated by the state’s 27-year-old “Percent for Art” law, he posted a Facebook photograph of him posing next to the new $350,000 glass sculpture by the world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly as an example of government waste. Presumably, the Treasurer believed that public art, however valuable and impressive, was nothing more than a colossal waste of public money, regardless of its prominent, showcase position…