CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • UNBELIEVABLE

    I suppose Jim Tucker hopes this would be under the radar. He wants to use Louisiana taxpayer dollars to hire the chief counsel of the Republican National Committee to “guide” the Justice Department in their review of our redistricting plan. Which is another way of saying: We’re all hiring the RNC lawyer to defend the legislature against the charge that maybe they should have included 30 majority-minority districts, which was suggested by the House clerk, instead of 29, which is what they did instead. H/t Kevin Franck. Quoting (bold mine): House Speaker Jim Tucker has hired a Washington, D.C.-based firm with ties…

  • Jindal Chief of Staff: Redistricting In Louisiana Is Actually About Nancy Pelosi

    Timmy Teepell, self-proclaimed “Road Scholar” and on-again, off-again Chief of Staff for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, has finally revealed what the fight over the I-20 district is actually about: Nancy Pelosi. Quoting from The Town Talk: “I don’t want to give Pelosi a vote,” Teepell said. “We don’t think it makes sense to have one horizontal district that goes across the top” of the state “because a district like that just becomes another vote for Pelosi. “Pelosi did a number on us the last time she was speaker,” Teepell said. Although I think it’s absurd and completely out of touch,…

  • Jindal Promises To Veto Central Louisiana Congressional District

    Give me a break: Gov. Bobby Jindal has inserted himself more deeply into the fray over the redesign of the state’s congressional districts. Jindal has threatened to veto any map that doesn’t maintain two north Louisiana-based districts. I am amazed at the ways in which Governor Jindal and the Louisiana media have been able to successfully parrot this line about “two north Louisiana-based districts.” We do not currently have “two north Louisiana-based districts,” and the legislature has never entertained any such plan. This is what our Congressional districts look like currently, and this is, essentially, the model Jindal supports: Obviously,…