CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Vitter Stages, Scripts “Town Hall” Meeting in Pineville

    With all the work that went into the pre-production of David Vitter Presents A Town Hall on Health Care– pre-screening and selecting questions, refusing questions from the media, assembling a panel of like-minded conservatives- you’d think Mr. Vitter would have chosen a different jacket. We can all thank The Town Talk for this picture. In all seriousness, something that has not been reported: According to a friend of mine who was there for the entire production, prior to meeting, outside of the Guinn Auditorium, a small group of protesters (?) chanted, “Kill Nancy Pelosi!” It sure would be nice to…

  • $$$$ Bill: Not Guilty of the Freezer Cash Stash; Guilty of (Almost) Everything Else

    I had always believed that the government was going to have a difficult time proving its case about the $90,000 they found in William Jefferson’s freezer. Turns out, the jury agreed and found Representative Jefferson not guilty on that specific charge. Unfortunately for the former Congressman, the jury found him guilty of 11 of the 16 counts, including violating federal RICO statutes, arguably the most damning charge leveled against him. For a Harvard-educated lawyer who was elected the first African-American Congressman in Louisiana since Reconstruction, today’s verdict represented an almost Shakespearean demise– and in Shakespeare, as with William Jefferson, a…

  • Introducing the Louisiana Progress Journal

    View and download here: http://tinyurl.com/laprogress1 (Featuring yours truly as well as native Alexandrian and CenLamar contributor, Daniel T. Smith). FIRST ‘LOUISIANA PROGRESS JOURNAL’ LAUNCHES AUGUST 4, 2009:  Today the first edition of the Louisiana Progress Journal was released by the Louisiana Progress Initiative(LPI). The public policy publication includes five articles that share original thoughts, proposals, and analysis on current policy debates and challenges in Louisiana. The journal is the result of a volunteer effort by a group of Louisiana-based thinkers, writers, and practitioners with the goal of injecting fresh ideas into the public debate through carefully-reasoned reports, articles, and essays.…