CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • LCRM Attack Ads Exposed By Mainstream Media

    Update: A quick glance at Republican Lance Maxwell’s campaign finance reports reveals that, despite Maxwell’s claims about being barred from strategically communicating with the LCRM, the Maxwell campaign received an in-kind contribution from the LCRM. On September 11, 2007, the LCRM donated a campaign policy handbook, valued at $100, to Lance Maxwell’s campaign. Download the report here and flip to page 9. Maxwell has also received $2,500 donations from out-of-towners like Joseph Canizaro and Phyllis Taylor, both of whom were instrumental in funding the LCRM. Yesterday, a group of Democratic candidates gathered in Alexandria to denounce the smear ads that…

  • Jindal Snubs the NAACP: A Disturbing Pattern on Issues of Race Emerges

    The NAACP and Every Child Matters organized a forum Sunday during which the gubernatorial candidates discussed issues important to our state’s African-American community, a community that comprises approximately 33.1% of the state’s population. Everyone, it seemed, was in attendance, thereby rendering Bobby Jindal’s absence all the more conspicuous. Jindal’s decision to snub the NAACP is somewhat surprising, for newspaper article after newspaper article touts the unprecedented support Jindal enjoys in the African-American community. African-Americans, reporters gush, consider Jindal a viable option, but the interviews these panegyrists for Jindal cite contradict their articles’ theses: potential support for Jindal is briefly metioned,…

  • Why Has Big Insurance Donated Nearly $200,000 to Rep. Jindal?

    And are there any correlations between his privatization plans for health care, plans that include tax breaks and incentives, and the following contributions? Note: These donations do not include the Big Insurance donations Jindal has accepted during the past year (more later). American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 9/12/2006 $2000 American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 9/12/2006 $3000 American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 6/7/2006 $1000 American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 3/30/2006 $1000 American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 12/6/2005 $1000 American Bankers Association PAC (BANKPAC) 1/31/2005 $2000 Investment Company Institute PAC (ICI PAC) 4/10/2006 $2500 Investment Company Institute PAC (ICI PAC) 2/24/2006 $1000…