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The Current
[A.B.] Rubin [blamed] conservative activist Michael Lunsford for the delay. Lunsford’s organization, Citizens for a New Louisiana, has stirred activism in library controversies across the state.

Danny Cherry, Jr.
The movement... all across the nation to hijack and remake whole library systems, in order to purge their respective systems of objectionable material, is... by a group called Citizens for a New Louisiana.
New York Times
The group that started the hubbub over in Lafayette Parish is called Citizens for a New Louisiana. And I know the players. And I had been monitoring who’s involved in all of this.
Los Angeles Review of Books
[Citizens for a New Louisiana is] At the center of the national controversy

Acadiana Advocate
Citizens, whose executive director is ... Michael Lunsford, is a conservative "good government" operation that started in Lafayette and is expanding across the state. Its latest crusade is pushing for tighter controls on the books and other materials minors are allowed to access in public libraries.
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