CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • The Miseducation of Bobby Jindal: School Vouchers and Discrimination (Part II)

    Yesterday, I wrote about the ways in which Governor Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White have attempted to dupe the public and national Congressional Republican leaders on the realities and the success of Louisiana’s controversial school voucher program. Almost immediately after the Department of Justice filed a motion seeking to suspend the program in certain school districts still under federal desegregation orders, Governor Jindal accused officials in the Justice Department and the Obama administration of conspiring to prevent African-American children from accessing a “better education.” As I pointed out yesterday, the simple truth is that Jindal’s school…

  • Bobby Jindal Dupes John Boehner on Destroying Desegregation

    Yesterday, Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and four other prominent Congressional Republicans fired off a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, urging him to reconsider a motion the Department of Justice recently filed seeking an injunction against the implementation of Louisiana’s voucher program in the thirty-four schools in thirteen districts still under federal desegregation orders. Notably, Boehner’s letter mistakenly claims the Department of Justice is targeting thirty-four “districts,” which clearly indicates that neither he nor anyone else who signed onto the letter actually read the DOJ’s memorandum. I’ll do them a favor; here it is. Put simply, the…

  • Bobby Jindal Believes Exorcisms Can Cure Cancer

    When he was 24 years old, Bobby Jindal became the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In introducing him to the public, Governor-elect Mike Foster called Jindal a “genius.” Quoting from The Advocate (who thought, at the time, that Jindal’s legal name was Piyush Robert): Gov.-elect Mike Foster said his new health secretary is “a genius” who has an unbelievable knowledge of health care and the “practical quality” of being able to deal with people. Foster said Piyush Robert “Bobby” Jindal is a young man, which some may think is a negative. But Foster said he is not worried…