CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • LA 5th: Who Is Responsible for This Illegal Robocall?

    Earlier today, I received this illegal robocall from (318)-516-2929, a number that originates out of Monroe, Louisiana. Why, exactly, is this illegal? Because the recording, allegedly made by “Billy Johnson,” is intended to influence a federal election, and both the Federal Election Commission and federal laws require full disclosure. Quoting (bold mine): At the federal level, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 has some basic rules that apply to all automated calls, but it is up to the states to decide how they will regulate automated calls of a political nature. According to the TCPA: “All artificial or prerecorded telephone…

  • Bobby Jindal Appoints Unethical Hate-Monger Tony Perkins To Law Enforcement Commission

    Earlier this month, Governor Bobby Jindal appointed Tony Perkins, the former Louisiana State Representative and current head of Family Research Council, to the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission. Tellingly, although Perkins was appointed nearly three weeks ago, Governor Jindal’s office kept things quiet; the appointment was first revealed by Woody Jenkins, a man who is best known in Louisiana for his three quixotic campaigns for the United States Senate. Indeed, according to multiple sources, Governor Jindal’s office had repeatedly denied or refused to acknowledge Perkins’s appointment until only yesterday, when it became the subject of national news. Perkins, who is perhaps…

  • Commission of Error: Jindal’s Cynical, Immoral, and Hypocritical Campaign Against the Department of Justice

    In 2012, as a part of the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program (known colloquially as Louisiana’s “school voucher” program), Governor Bobby Jindal legally obligated his administration to guarantee the program complied with federal desegregation orders.  “The 2012 state law expanding the voucher program statewide acknowledged that the program was ‘subject to any court-ordered desegregation plan in effect, for a particular school district,” Education Weekly recently reported. And this should have been easy. It just required the Louisiana Department of Education to share public records with the Department of Justice: Where are the schools? And who are the students? For some reason, however,…