CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Duplicity, Dishonesty, and Dirty Politics

    I. Greg Aymond: Let’s get this straight: I don’t know what Greg Aymond currently does for a living. I know he had a stroke, and I believe this has been a source of suffering for him. Like me, he is very obviously disabled, though in a completely different way. He spends an inordinate amount of time publicly chastising people elected to represent his hometown. He believes many of them are criminals. He wants the FBI to intervene. To me, Greg Aymond’s rants are frequently pathetic, paranoiac, absurd, and ridiculous; they are dangerously detached and often bigoted. And perhaps this should…

  • Melancon Asks Vitter to “Come Clean” About Aide Arrested for Attacking Woman

    Whoa. By the way, after being broken wide open by ABC News, this story has been covered by a number of national news organizations, yet, for some reason, it’s remained conspicuously absent from the newspaper pages and the nightly broadcasts of the Louisiana media– which is made even more confounding when you consider that the New Orleans CBS affiliate actually (apparently) conducted an interview with Vitter about the controversy, an interview they have yet to air: A search of TVeyes.com reveals that WWL has yet to cover the story or air Hoss’ interview of Sen. Vitter — a finding confirmed by…

  • Melancon: BP Should Suspend Executive Bonuses

    Louisiana Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Melancon is calling on BP to suspend paying executive bonuses and instead use that money to help Gulf Coast families reeling from the disaster. From the Associated Press: U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon has asked the chairman of BP to suspend performance bonuses indefinitely for the company’s top executives and use those funds to assist Louisianians affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a letter sent Wednesday to Carl-Henrik Svanberg, Melancon says BP chief executive Tony Hayward’s $3 million bonus he received last year would cover the salaries for 50…