CenLamar | Est. 2006

Former Louisiana Republican operative and New Media Director to the 2011 Bobby Jindal campaign, Taylor Huckaby recalls the birth, life, and death of his confidence in the Jindal brand. When I was 19, I babysat Governor Bobby Jindal’s three children. Yes, changing diapers and making sure all the broccoli was fully eaten would be the opening salvo of my career in government and campaign communications. Each day after classes back in 2008, a female friend and I would make our way to the Governor’s Mansion gate and do our best to help First Lady Supriya Jindal and a few state…

Last week, a prominent national reporter spoke with me about a paper I’m working on for one of my law school classes. I’d asked for his help because I knew he was an expert in the subject, and thankfully, he took the time to answer my questions. At the tail end of our conversation, he asked me about the story I’d helped to break about Bill Cassidy’s work with LSU. He was curious, he said, because he’d actually seen the same documents that I posted a few weeks before I had. He thought it was an important story, but he…

A month after he was sworn in as Louisiana’s newest United States Senator, Bill Cassidy expressed his appreciation of an internal audit conducted by LSU in response to questions about his employment with the university while serving in Congress. The audit, which was released to the public on Wednesday and which has already been criticized by Cassidy’s former opponent, Mary Landrieu, and Karen Carter-Peterson, the chairwoman of the Louisiana Democratic Party, reveals that, for several years, LSU failed to “adequately” document Cassidy’s work and did not execute a formal written agreement for his services. However, relying almost entirely on the…