CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Student Protests Over Education Cuts Will Only Become Louder and Better Organized

    It’s been nearly three years since he was elected Governor, and honestly, I still don’t understand Bobby Jindal’s prerogatives. He opposed the stimulus and then traveled the State posing for pictures handing out oversized checks from the stimulus. He (essentially) fired his own Secretary of the DOTD, William Ankner, right after Mr. Ankner said Louisiana would attempt to compete for funding to construct a high-speed rail line between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Jindal, as you may recall, used the proposed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles as an example of wasteful stimulus spending during his infamously awful…

  • Q & A with The Tea Party of Louisiana

    A couple of days ago, in a post about the race for Louisiana’s Third Congressional District, I mentioned that Republican candidate Jeff Landry had been endorsed by The Tea Party of Louisiana, which I implied to be a monolithic group of Republicans. Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with the board of the Tea Party of Louisiana, and within hours, I was contacted by board member Barry Hugghins, who politely informed me that their organization included Independents and Libertarians and that of the 12 members of their executive board, only six were, in fact, registered Republicans. Fair enough. I…

  • Under the Radar, Ravi Sangisetty Raises More Money Than Anyone Else

    Currently, there is only one Democrat representing Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana’s Third Congressional District. Melancon, of course, has decided to forgo a re-election campaign in order to challenge David Vitter for the Senate. Very early on (actually, before Melancon even “officially” announced his intention to run for Senate), Ravi Sangisetty, a young, Ivy League-educated, Indian-American lawyer, made it known that if Melancon was going to run for Senate, then he would run for Melancon’s seat as a Democrat. Once Melancon made it official, Sangisetty and his campaign began aggressively yet quietly raising money, and…