CenLamar | Est. 2006

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Michael Beyer, a 22-year-old LSU student and a senior majoring in political science. Beyer, who recently received the prestigious Truman Fellowship, is a regular opinion columnist with The Daily Reveille, LSU’s student-run newspaper, and has become well-known throughout the state for his advocacy. Earlier today, The Daily Reveille published Beyer’s column but, within minutes, decided to scrub it from their website for reasons that I still cannot fathom. I asked Beyer if he would be willing to share his piece here on CenLamar, and he graciously agreed. I think it’s a compelling story that…

Yesterday, a little more than a week after taking office, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards outlined his stopgap proposal to rescue the state from an existential budget crisis. After spending his entire professional career in government (with the exception of a gig with McKinsey that he held for a few months after college), his predecessor, Bobby Jindal, recently moved into a brand-new million dollar home, leaving behind some office furniture, an oil painting of himself, and a projected $1.9 billion structural deficit. Gov. Jindal, notoriously and unforgivably, spent the last several months of his tenure embarking on a quixotic campaign for…

Yesterday, Jefferson Parish political consultant Greg Buisson e-mailed me a statement from State Rep. Neil Abramson in response to my recent article about Abramson’s duplicitous campaign for Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives against fellow Democrat and New Orleanian Walt Leger. Quoting: Lamar: Attached is a statement from Representative Neil Abramson to your post on January 13, 2016 titled “State Rep. Neil Abramson (D-New Orleans) Sabotaged His Colleagues, His Party and His Governor.”  Would you please consider posting the Representative’s statement in its entirety below your post for all to read and better understand his position on this matter.…