Boards are supposed to be made up of regular citizens who simply want the best for their own community. Previously, a number of boards in Lafayette had been overrun with liberal-progressive political activists. Because their agenda is not popular locally, it’s...
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.
In Louisiana, the movement [to remove or reshelve sexually explicit books] started in Lafayette in 2021 when ... the conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana filed an objection.