Open letter to Lafayette’s downtown residents
There is an extreme amount of misinformation flowing out of the Downtown Lafayette Unlimited organization (directed by DDA). As a result, we felt it best to send a letter to nearly every single household in the Downtown Taxing District. I’m publishing it here as...
DDA “Weaponizes” Public Records
Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a children’s game most of us are familiar with. The purpose of the game, of course, is to disorient the player and (to some degree) watch them fail miserably as they stumble forward attempting to register their successful pin. That is...
Lafayette’s Downtown Shakedown
If Anita Begnaud has her preference, you’ll never find out that smack in the middle of Festival International, on April 30th, 2022, there will be an election to increase the downtown property tax by fifty-percent (50%) more than allowed by their enabling...
Lafayette’s DDA wants a 50% tax hike
The enabling legislation for Lafayette’s DDA sets forth goals and rewards for achieving them. The goal is to halt deterioration of downtown property values. The reward is getting an annual percentage of those property values as income. It’s ingenious,...
Lafayette Taxing Districts’ first expenses? Lining Pockets of course!
According to an email request from DDA’s Anita Begnaud, the meeting to decide who gets $100,000 to “manage” the five taxing districts, could be held at an undisclosed location as early as Monday, June 7th, 2021. Sources say this meeting will take...
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
Los Angeles Times
Lunsford said [Citizens for a New Louisiana's] focus is to prevent libraries statewide from allowing children access to erotic or pornographic materials.
Los Angeles Times
A defamation suit [Amanda Jones] filed against ... the conservative group Citizens for a New Louisiana, was dismissed.
Times-Picayune
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.
Louisiana Illuminator
Michael Lunsford, executive director of the conservative watchdog group Citizens for a New Louisiana, raised concerns about the bill’s overly broad language
The Advocate
A second Youngsville police chief candidate has been found by the court to be ineligible to run... Citizens for a New Louisiana filed a complaint about Trahan's eligibility with the DA.
