CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Butch Gautreaux’s Farewell Address

    Today, State Senator Butch Gautreaux (D-Morgan City) wrapped up his final legislative session with a headline-grabbing speech detailing the failures and the hypocrisies of Governor Bobby Jindal and his administration. It’s worth reading in full. Here is the text (as prepared for delivery): Bobby Jindal has been led our state now for approximately three-and-one-half years and I think it is time to acknowledge some of the most notable achievements of his first term as governor of the Great State of Louisiana. Gov. Jindal, our most traveled governor in Louisiana history has logged well over a thousand hours in State Police…

  • Vitter’s Weiner Problem

    At the very least, you have to admit that it’s a little ironic: It certainly seems that, thus far, aside from Representative Weiner himself, no other elected official has been more damaged and criticized as a result of the Weiner scandal than Senator David Vitter, Louisiana’s junior United States Senator, a conservative Republican who is best known to the world for his participation, as a client, in the D.C. Madam prostitution ring. Recently, in a complete reversal, Bill O’Reilly suggested that David Vitter should resign. “I don’t think he (Vitter) should be there (Congress). Absolutely not,” O’Reilly said. Even conservative…

  • Zack Kopplin: 43. Michele Bachmann: Zero.

    Earlier today, Kevin Allman of The Gambit asked Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann a rather straight-forward question, the same question Zack Kopplin recently asked of Ms. Bachmann when he appeared on MSNBC. By way of background, here’s what Michele Bachmann said in a 2006 debate: Bachmann: “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.” Unlike Michele Bachmann, Zack Kopplin actually does his homework. When he led the effort to repeal the Louisiana Family Forum’s signature piece of legislation, the Louisiana Science Education Act, an act that allows the teaching of creationism…