CenLamar | Est. 2006

He launched his campaign by claiming the majority of undocumented immigrants from Mexico were rapists and drug dealers sent to the United States by the Mexican government. He believes it’s possible that Barack Obama forged his own birth certificate and lied about the identity of his own mother in order to eventually run for president (note: The only way Obama would not be eligible for office is if his mother wasn’t who he said she was; it doesn’t matter where he was born). He said that an American prisoner of war who spent five and a half years being tortured…

At exactly 8:48PM on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, Mike Henderson, the director of the Public Policy Research Lab at LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communications, tweeted, “That’s a wrap, folks. It’s over for Vitter. The only question now is whether it’s over for (Les) Miles too.” Like many of the people packed inside the ballroom of the Hotel Monteleone, I had been obsessively checking for election updates. Results were still pouring in, and although pollster Greg Rigamer had actually called the gubernatorial election the day before for John Bel Edwards, his call was entirely speculative. Henderson is a numbers guy,…

Two weeks ago, State Rep. John Bel Edwards launched a blistering campaign commercial against Sen. David Vitter, pointing out that Vitter missed a vote to honor American veterans from the first Gulf War because, as phone records reveal, he was busy calling the D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Well, it turns out this wasn’t the only time David Vitter put prostitutes before patriots, to borrow a line from Edwards’s commercial. David Vitter’s phone number appeared five times on Palfrey’s phone logs: Oct. 12, 1999, Sept. 18, 2000, Oct. 26, 2000, Feb. 11, 2001 and Feb. 27, 2001. On Oct. 12, 1999,…