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Critical Acclaim
Livingston Parish News
Smith added that the issue blew up on social media after an “outside” group called Citizens for a New Louisiana enflamed the situation.
Antigravity
[Citizens for a New Louisiana is] perhaps the most powerful non-profit alliance in the State of Louisiana.
Times Picayune
Executive director of the ultra-conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana, Michael Lunsford, seized that opportunity
School Library Journal
[Citizens for a New Louisiana] is very well organized.
Antigravity
We can look to Livingston to show how [Citizens for a New Louisiana's] collusion with the state government has impacted law.
