Closed primaries – the ultimate test
It’s morning in Louisiana! After decades, Louisiana is no longer allowing registered Democrats to select the candidate that will represent the Republican brand on an election ballot. Fixing this problem was announced as a top priority of the Jeff Landry...
This could never happen – but it happened
Newspaper headlines and articles across the state are criticizing the Republican controlled legislature as it went on the biggest spending spree in Louisiana history. Our legislature was not legally entitled to spend every dollar of the enormous surplus. In Louisiana,...
IF YOU ONLY HAD THREE WISHES…
There was a fisherman in the Atchafalaya Basin who one day came upon a beautiful ornate bottle in the muck and the mud. He picked it up and observed it was sealed with a cork, but despite being empty it was unusually heavy. Curious of his findings he set about to...
We found 588 registered voters in vacant New Orleans building
Every now and then the phone rings or dings with a question. Sometimes it flashes across a group I’m in. Well, yesterday, someone wanted to know how many single addresses had six or more people registered to vote up in Monroe. As a scratch programmer and...
Citizens for a New Louisiana is making government more transparent, one parish at a time. Will you become a part of the solution?
Critical Acclaim
New York Times
Citizens for a New Louisiana is a group that has pushed to have books that [are] erotic or sexual removed from the children’s section of libraries.
Sandra Gee
This is the most stellar example of investigative journalism that I have had the privilege to read in a very long time.
Book Riot
The mention of signage sounded eerily similar to the display controversy in Lafayette Parish, which was created by Citizens for a New Louisiana.
Southern Poverty Law Center
[The] influence of Michael Lunsford and his organization, Citizens for a New Louisiana, [stopped] drag story hour.
National Public Radio
Lunsford spent years raising the heat leading a stealthy but steady campaign that replaced members of the library board who, from his perspective, were not quite on board.
