DOGE in the Bayou: Jeff Landry’s Fiscal Responsibility Program
It’s not a new dance craze sweeping the nation or the latest internet challenge (think Ice Bucket Challenge). No, DOGE is a backronym that famed billionaire Elon Musk created or at least popularized. It stands for “Department of Government...
Accomplishments: 2024 2nd Extraordinary Session
We have been talking about this for quite some time here at Citizens for a New Louisiana. Increasing crime rates and a lack of transparency in our criminal justice system. In a recent four-part series following the issuance of the Violent Crime Task Force report back...
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...
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
Scalawag Magazine
Hundreds of titles are being flagged by local residents and conservative groups such as Citizens for a New Louisiana for concerns that the [children's] books feature "pornography" and "pedophilia."
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.
National Public Radio
Citizens for a New Louisiana [is] the same group behind the conservative takeover of the Lafayette library board.
Los Angeles Review of Books
[Citizens for a New Louisiana is] Leading the charge in Louisiana’s library debate
Times Picayune
Executive director of the ultra-conservative nonprofit Citizens for a New Louisiana, Michael Lunsford, seized that opportunity
