CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Three Points of Light

    The mainstream media seems to be more than willing to endorse the notion that Jindal achieved a mandate (yesterday’s “top story” on KALB), even if all they’re doing is recapitulating the claims of Republican talk radio hosts and Republican bloggers. KALB’s news director calls Bobby Jindal’s 31-point plans on everything, “1,000 points of light.” I wonder who she voted for. House District 26 candidate Herbert Dixon avoided a run-off by a mere six votes. Big Oil Lobbyist and Jindal Campaign Fundraiser Stephen Waguespack was named Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy by Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal.

  • Ceci n’est pas un mandat

    Here is the actual electoral map, one Lamar generated on my behalf, not the disingenuous paint by misleading numbers project that mistakes a plurality for a majority posted on Jay Dardenne’s dysfunctional website. Notice how Jindal failed to win 29 parishes outright, and notice how large swaths of the state rejected him and his candidacy. Parishes colored red are parishes he won outright, while parishes colored blue are parishes whose voters rebuffed Jindal and cast their votes for someone else. Those dissenting votes are significant, as Jindal’s name recognition was near universal. Ceci n’est pas un mandat; ceci est un…

  • The State Senate and Jindal’s Putative “Mandate”

    54% may secure an outright victory in a jungle primary, but it is certainly not what Jindal’s supporters both online and in the traditional media will characterize as a “mandate,” a word that not coincidentally rolled glibly off of Jindal’s tongue during the second gubernatorial debate. The term in question is one that circulates in today’s increasingly deceitful political discourse: it is the trope Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and other national Republicans deployed in order to render Bush’s loss in 2000 into a clarion call for Republican hegemony, and it was reiterated by all the regular suspects in 2004, when…