CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Jim Brown: Stand Under the Arch to Earn the Big Bucks in State Government

      Guest Column: By Commissioner Jim Brown How do you put a dollar value on the worth of a public official? That’s the issue being debated in the Baton Rouge State Capitol this week. The new Economic Development Secretary is asking approval for a salary of $320,000 a year. His assistant is requesting a salary as deputy secretary of $235,000 a year. These amounts are significantly above what other economic development directors are making throughout the South. So how do you justify such large increases? Is such a high salary a “Hail Mary pass” in a desperate effort to try…

  • John Breaux/Trent Lott Leadership Group Forms Alliance With Patton Boggs

    From the Blog of the Legal Times: Patton Boggs and the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group are forming a strategic alliance, the two firms will announce later this afternoon. A source confirms to Legal Times that former senators John Breaux (D-La.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) — who joined together to form their own firm after Lott retired from the Senate late last year — will become special public policy advisors to Patton Boggs. Breaux worked for Patton Boggs before leaving to open the new firm with Lott, and was considered a top lobbyist. The deal has been in the works for months.…

  • The Reduct Box: Vitter Walks Away From DC Madam Questions

    H/t: The Reduct Box