CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Jindal’s Ethics Agenda Scrutinized By Ethics Board Chairman

    Specifically: Item 04: (5) requiring greater separation between the Ethics Board’s advisory, investigatory, and prosecutorial functions; (6) providing for a confidential advisory process and requiring that all opinions be sterilized before publication to preserve the confidentiality of public servants requesting opinions; (7) requiring the Ethics Board to expedite the process for, and maintain confidentiality during, the initial screening of complaints; (8) requiring that all complaints not warranting investigation be summarily dismissed and expunged; (9) requiring the Ethics Board to offer consent judgments for expedited compliance following investigation but before charges are filed, with all final consent judgments made public (read…

  • Map of Louisiana Republican Results

    At first, if you were watching the returns, it looked like Huckabee would be rolling into a ten-point victory over John McCain. But then East Baton Rouge, Orleans, and Lafayette parishes all came in, and they all went for McCain. Huckabee held onto win by only 2,000 votes, remarkable when you consider how many different parishes Huckabee carried. McCain is in red; Huckabee is in pink. McCain won Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, Evangeline, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana parishes.

  • Map of Louisiana Democratic Results

    I apologize for this rudimentary and difficult-to-read map, but hopefully, it’s instructive. Although Barack Obama did win resoundingly statewide, Hillary Clinton still carried twenty parishes throughout the State: Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Caldwell, Cameron, Catahoula, Grant, Jefferson Davis, Lafourche, LaSalle, Livingston, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Terrebonne, Vermillion, Vernon, West Carroll, and Winn. Clinton’s victories are indicated in dark blue, Obama’s in light blue. Hillary did particularly well in Central and Southwestern Louisiana, carrying a number of rural parishes. In many of these parishes, she didn’t win by much; in Avoyelles, the margin was 28 votes. Her biggest victories were…