Critical Acclaim
![New York Times](https://www.newlouisiana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/apple-touch-icon-28865b72953380a40aa43318108876cb-100x100.png)
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.
![The Advocate](https://www.newlouisiana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/49eaf744-a681-11ed-b490-d35661792f54-100x100.webp)
The Advocate
Citizens for a New Louisiana has been systematically placing conservatives on volunteer commissions such as the Lafayette Parish Library Board of Control and Bayou Vermilion District, where they now have majority control.
![Lynette Mejia](https://www.newlouisiana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lynette-Mejia-100x100.jpg)
Lynette Mejia
"[Citizens for a New Louisiana] Stacking these boards is, like, antithetical to the democratic process."
![Kim Powers](https://www.newlouisiana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/156722336_10222677201692979_5962036976367105216_n-100x100.jpg)
Kim Powers
I can understand why someone would try to duplicate what they are doing at Citizens but alas, that's a trap. They make it look easy. It isn't.
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National Public Radio
Citizens for a New Louisiana says the goal ... is to protect kids from ... smut in the library.
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