CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Bobby Jindal Cancels Appearance At Tony Perkins’s Values Voters Summit

    Yesterday, in a joint statement, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, Faithful America, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, People For the American Way, and the Southern Poverty Law Center publicly urged Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to cancel his scheduled appearance at the upcoming Values Voters Summit. Hours later, Jindal’s spokesman Kyle Plotkin announced that he was bowing out of the event, citing a scheduling conflict. Quoting the coalition’s press release: **** Gov. Jindal and Members of Congress Urged to Not Legitimize Extremism by Speaking at Values Voter Summit Anti-LGBT, Race, Gender Bigotry Cited A coalition of human rights groups…

  • Kate Losse Accuses Dave Eggers of Cynically Rewriting Her Memoir Before Ever Reading Eggers’s Book

    I’m taking a quick break from my usual stories about Louisiana, public education, school vouchers, and politics, because I think it’s provocative, infuriating, and, hopefully, teachable and because, for many reasons, this story bothered me. Last year, Kate Losse published a memoir, The Boy Kings, about her work during the first years of Facebook. Losse was the fifty-first employee hired by Facebook, which would certainly provide her with real insight into the company. Notably, Losse’s book was published more than two years after The Accidental Billionaires, whose film adaption, The Social Network, was named Best Picture of the Year at the…

  • Tony Perkins Considers Run for Congress

    As first reported by LAPolitics’s John Maginnis and Jeremy Alford (behind a paywall), Tony Perkins, the controversial and incendiary leader of the Family Research Council, is considering a run for Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District. Quoting (bold mine): “I’ve been encouraged by many people to consider getting in and I’m thinking about it,” Perkins said. “It’s an attractive prospect to be closer to home.” Perkins, whose recent appointment to the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission by Governor Bobby Jindal sparked national outrage, may be best known as the leader of an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as a “hate…