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Southern muckraker, policy wonk, history nerd | @bayoubrief | “The Original Gangster” | Rice ‘05, SMU Law ‘15 | lamar @lamarwhitejr .com

Louisiana, Charleston, Dallas

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Lamar White, Jr.

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For the past three years, I have been researching, writing, revising, and now rewriting a sprawling book about the life, times, crimes, trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Carlos Marcello, the longtime boss of the New Orleans Mafia. In the pantheon of 20th-century American

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At 2 in the morning, hundreds of Ted Cruz supporters all woke up to issue the same exact statement on Twitter. Nothing suspicious about this. Nope. These are all just proud, patriotic American citizens, all deep in the heart of Texas.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Nov 2nd in Columbus, MS.

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Almost 9 years ago, I broke the story about Steve Scalise attending & speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002. Given the renewed attention, I think it's important to correct a few things the media continues to misreport. (1/25)

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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Was Reportedly an Honored Guest at 2002 International White...

According to recently uncovered posts on Stormfront, the Internet’s oldest and most notorious white nationalist and neo-Nazi forum, the United States House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise (R- Lo…

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"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row"- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says in Tupelo, MS after Colin Hutchinson, cattle rancher, praises her. Hyde-Smith is in a runoff on Nov 27th against Mike Espy.

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The Ku Klux Klan is distributing these packets in Sabine Parish, LA. Thankfully, they're asking voters go to the poles, not the polls.

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Correction: Video WAS taken in Starkville on 11/03, which is what I had initially reported. There was some confusion, because apparently, Sen. Hyde-Smith has a talent for saying things like this often. @GanucheauAdam

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Donald Rouse, Sr. (right), the co-owner of the Louisiana-based grocery chainstore Rouses Markets, and former Rouses HR Director Steve Galtier traveled to DC to protest election, according to a public post on Galtier's FB. He claims they were alongside "millions" of "patriots."

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14. At the current rate, Donald Trump's expenses will surpass the combined total of all eight years of Barack Obama's in less than 4 months.

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Anthony Bourdain loved and understood Louisiana better than anyone not from here possibly could. He got us. Here he was in Mardi Gras in Mamou this year, where he dressed up in a costume to chase a chicken for a gumbo. And yes, this was all perfectly sensible.

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But in 2002, Scalise was 35 years old, had served two terms in the state legislature, and was gearing up to run for a third term. This wasn't a rookie mistake. Not only was he familiar with Duke, but he personally knew members of Duke's political machine, including Kenny Knight.

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Scalise eventually fessed up and admitted attending the white supremacist conference, though he claimed he had forgotten about the event, which, if true, speaks volumes about his normalization of white supremacist politics. Either way, he knew his audience.

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To those of you in New Orleans who may be reluctant now to make groceries at Rouses, consider joining @nolafoodcoop and, for $100, becoming a co-owner of your own local grocery store.

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An update:

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Ted Cruz easily receives endorsement from other robots

The rise and fall of the machine.

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Elizabeth Warren just sent an email reminding folks in Louisiana to vote. So far, she’s the only Democratic presidential candidate to do so, at least according to my inbox. Thanks for remembering us, @ewarren .

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Initially, Scalise's office denied my story, which I had uncovered after discovering a series of archived posts on the white supremacist website, Stormfront, which not only thanked Scalise for attending but also provided details of his remarks. He obviously impressed the group.

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Today, Republicans are allowing a radical faction to host their own white supremacist conference on the House floor. Ironically, if Scalise doesn't get the votes needed to become Speaker, it will likely be because he failed to court the most outspoken white supremacists.

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The "international" event, held at the Landmark Best Western Hotel in Metairie, was hosted by EURO, the European-American Unity & Rights Organization, a group affiliated with David Duke, arguably the most notorious racist in America at the time.

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Knight, Duke's former campaign manager and top aide, invited Scalise to speak at the event. (Some have taken issue with my characterization of Scalise as an "honored guest," but the group was clearly flattered and honored by the attendance of a prominent elected official).

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In an absurd attempt to protect Scalise from the fall-out, Kenny Knight, now serving time for operating an oxycontin "pill mill," told the Times-Picayune that Scalise had attended a meeting for a non-existent neighborhood group he also hosted at the same hotel on the same day.

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Some have implied that because the event occurred more than 20 years ago, Scalise's decision to attend the conference must've been due to his youth and inexperience. Scalise himself has incredulously claimed that he didn't know anything about the group's politics or agenda.

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Duke, a former state representative, was universally known in Louisiana, rising to become one of the most dominant figures in state politics by winning the majority of white voters in the '90 Senate & the '91 gubernatorial elections. He also was one of Scalise's constituents.

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There's just one problem with Scalise's claim that his speech to white supremacists was merely a part of his campaign against the Stelly Plan. The conference not only occurred months before his campaign against Stelly; it occurred before the legislature had even considered it.

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But I do know his voting record, both in the state legislature and in Congress. And I know how he built his political career and the constituency he's courted and empowered from the beginning. To use his own words, he's "David Duke without the baggage."

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Scalise has spent practically his entire career in elected office, representing one of the most radically conservative districts in the country, the same district that launched David Duke's political career & put Bobby Jindal & David Vitter in power, a bastion of the Lost Cause.

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The Stelly Plan proved to be incredibly effective and fiscally responsible. It not only helped poor families in one of the poorest states in the country pay for food and electricity, but it also reduced the burden on the state. Once rescinded, the state lost $300M a year.

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Not only did he oppose making MLK Day a state holiday (until last year, Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day were state holidays), but as a member of Congress, he opposed naming a post office after Judge Lionel Collins, a civil rights pioneer from Jefferson Parish.

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Not surprisingly, its leading opponents, including Scalise, who once voted against designating Martin Luther King Day, already a federal holiday, as a state holiday, used racist dog whistles and fearmongering about bankrupting business owners to campaign against it.

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The fund was actually called the Rural and Urban Development Fund, and it provided funding to a variety of local programs. Scalise wanted to give it all away to entice an NBA team to New Orleans.

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Steve Scalise and Why the Cover-Up is Always Worse

Days after Congressman Steve Scalise, the third most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives, admitted that in 2002 he attended and addressed a white nationalist conference, Kenny Knig…

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A commenter on Stormfront recalled Scalise's vehement opposition to a so-called "slush fund." Quoting:

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The South's first Black Democratic Senator was just elected in Georgia today. Congratulations to Raphael Warnock. An historic win not just for Georgia, but for the entire nation.

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Now that he commands power in Washington, it's easy & convenient for some to ignore how he got there in the first place, to accept his equivocations about his past & platitudes about racial tolerance as genuine, & to let his personal narrative of survival excuse his politics.

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Steve Scalise now appears to be on the verge of becoming the Speaker of the House. He would be the first Speaker from Louisiana, which, contrary to what some of Scalise's usual critics in the state may believe, is not "good" for the state, even if Jim Jordan would be worse.

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At the time, the standard explanation for Richmond's bizarre defense was that he and Scalise were "close friends." Apparently, they aren't today. Richmond's supporters in New Orleans imagined it was shrewd political calculus. Scalise would "owe" him, or so the story went. Nope.

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U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham’s pharmacies dispensed nearly 1.5 million doses of opioids in two rural Louisiana towns with a combined population of 6,000 people. via @BayouBrief

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham’s Pharmacies Dispensed Nearly 1.5 Million Doses of Opioids in Two Rural Louisiana Towns With a Combined Population of 6,000 People

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"If you were to pay me is there any way the media can find out where it came from and how much?" —Brett Favre "Also the prize goes to Anna Wolfe... for reporting that revealed how a former MS gov used millions in state welfare [to benefit friends]... including Brett Favre."

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Anna Wolfe and Mississippi Today have won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for the welfare scandal investigative series The Backchannel! 🥂

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Scalise would later claim that he likely decided to accept the group's invitation because he had been attempting to build opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment known as the Stelly Plan (which passed but was later rescinded by Bobby Jindal).

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Worth noting: Arguably, the only reason Scalise remained in leadership after my story broke in late December 2014 was because now-former Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Black Democrat from Louisiana, declared that Scalise didn't have "a racist bone in his body."

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Under the Stelly Plan, sales taxes for household groceries and residential utilities were reduced and eventually eliminated by increasing the state income tax for those making over $80K a year and preventing double deductions on state and federal income taxes.

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Mad props to Elizabeth Warren for agreeing to a town hall at an HBCU in Jackson, Mississippi. I hope every candidate follows her lead and pays attention to the voices of Americans in the Deep South.

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To be clear, I don't know him personally. Our one encounter was so brief I didn't have the chance to tell him my name. I've read his book, chronicling the trauma of his shooting in the style of a political thriller but revealing almost nothing about his personality and beliefs.

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Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, a Democrat, jumps into the race for U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.

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I just received the full-length video. It is 14 minutes and 26 seconds long. Hyde-Smith's statements about voter suppression were, in fact, the 18 seconds posted above. There was nothing taken out of context. Nothing cut or manipulated. Nothing edited.

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Just a reminder that Donald Trump once offered to pay the legal bills for supporters who roughed up protestors at his campaign rallies.

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1. In his eight years as President, Barack Obama's vacations cost taxpayers between $85M-$96M.

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Nearly two years ago, I uploaded & shared the public records related to Rep. Clay Higgins's use of excessive force against an unarmed Black man (an innocent bystander). I'm glad it's finally receiving the attention & scrutiny it has always deserved.

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They ran out of “I Voted” stickers two hours ago at my precinct in New Orleans.

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed 5,500 people in Louisiana. As of today, LA's death toll from COVID-19 is 5,355. At this rate, within the next four months, COVID-19 will have killed more people in LA than every hurricane combined since the Last Island Hurricane of 1856.

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A leaked memo, obtained exclusively by the Bayou Brief, advises GOP legislators to buck Trump White House guidelines and ignore the advice and recommendations of public health experts. This will be updated with additional information soon.

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Exclusive: Internal Memo Circulated by LA GOP’s Sharon Hewitt Outlines Effort to Undermine Emerge...

Memo advises GOP legislators to buck Trump White House guidelines and ignore the advice and recommendations of public health experts.

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I guess I'm the only one who isn't surprised at all that Bill Cassidy voted that an impeachment trial was constitutional. He was the first La. GOP official to acknowledge Biden's win and the only one not to vote against counting AZ and/or PA electoral votes.

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Trump's final campaign rally vs. Hillary's final campaign rally.

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Maybe we should rethink the idea of putting a “regulated” for-profit, private monopoly in charge of critical infrastructure.

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This is one of the reasons I hustle for a window seat when I'm flying back to New Orleans. Taken on approach of Louis Armstrong. It's beautiful until you realize it's an iridescent petrochemical dystopia.

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“You can teach whatever it is about slavery. The good, the bad, the ugly,” state Rep. Ray Garofalo says, referring to his bill that seeks to sanction the teaching of white privilege, systemic racism, & the patriarchy. “There’s no good to slavery though,” replies Rep. Hilferty.

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The low point of session undoubtedly came today when Rep. Ray Garofalo said Louisiana schools need to teach the good of slavery. #Lalege

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At this point, I don’t see any pathway for Rispone to win. There seems to be a ton of more votes left in heavily Democratic areas than in Republican areas of the state.

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If Donald Trump and Senate Republicans succeed in replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before January 20th, the majority of the Supreme Court—five of the nine justices—would be appointees of Republican presidents who took office despite losing the popular vote to a Democratic opponent.

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Clay Higgins says he has "inside data." Maybe we should start with his race.

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So all the congressional Republicans who are supporting Trump’s nonsense about massive voter fraud — do they think their own wins are suspect too, or just Biden’s? Because if it’s such a big deal as they’re pretending, we should probably put their races under a microscope too.

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With her election to replace 99-year-old Councilman Harry Silver, Catherine Davidson makes history tonight as Alexandria, Louisiana's first openly gay elected official.

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No school should teach a child to be ashamed of the color of her skin.

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Mike Pence thanked “Baton Rogue.” Jeff Landry misspelled Louisiana on his campaign commercial. Ralph Abraham forgot about renewing his medical license. Willie Robertson cut an ad for Eddie Rispone and couldn’t pronounce his name. There’s a word for this, right?

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Jeff Landry has been running this ad on television for at least two days. Think about this. At least a dozen people would have seen this ad before it aired: Consultants, lawyers, cable companies. They took his money, but didn’t bother to tell him he had misspelled Louisiana.

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Nevertheless, she persisted.

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It's almost entirely comprised of photos the Senator takes w/ college kids & minor children. Given the amount of attention & the volume of vitriol the video has generated, it would be irresponsible & reckless to post w/out editing out faces of minors. That's NOT a joke.

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Gov. Edwards just vetoed this.

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Louisiana is about to pass a law that would criminalize people for protesting environmental racism in the most polluted place in the country. Fighting for your right to live will receive a penalty of 3-15 years hard labor if you trespass on "critical infrastructure" aka oil +gas

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Our next Ambassador to the U.N. @LindaT_G will serve in a dual role as Louisiana's Ambassador to the U.N. Today, she spoke about "gumbo diplomacy," making a roux & adding the trinity, and about her late mentor Amb. Ed Perkins (from La). Oh, and she used the word "lagniappe."

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Judge Ellis is the same guy who sentenced U.S. Rep. Bill Jefferson to thirteen years in prison for corruption. What’s the difference between Manafort and Jefferson? Hmmmm.... gee, I wonder.

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All I'm saying is that no one has ever seen Gertrude Stein and John Neely Kennedy in the same room at the same time. That's all.

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This is a question on the citizenship test.

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17. And because he owns both properties, he is likely to personally profit from this arrangement. The Art of the Steal.

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So the border wall is no longer a wall. And Mexico isn’t paying for it. Kellyanne Conway just informed us that after meeting with advisers, Trump discovered there were rivers and mountains on the border. I’m guessing Barron got a map for Christmas.

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16. If he stays in office for 8 years & his wife continues to live in NYC, at the current rate, we would be on the hook for more than $2.2B.

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@ChadwickNnola @humidbeing Out of Tic Tacs.

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Readers should know: We haven't taken or given a dime to any campaign or PAC. We don't charge for our reporting. We offer it for free. No ads. No sponsored content. Real, investigative journalism. You can help keep us in business by contributing here:

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Leah Chase was much more than a restauranteur or the keeper of secret recipes. To the extent that a single person can become the best representation of a place, Leah Chase didn’t change New Orleans; Leah Chase was New Orleans, at its very best.

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Leah Chase, 'a legend' whose restaurant Dooky Chase’s helped change New Orleans, dies at 96

In New Orleans, Leah Chase has long been lauded as a leader, an inspiration, even an emblem of her city’s better self.

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Donald Trump didn't create a "new" Republican Party. He just plastered his brand on a faction of the party already dominant in the Deep South. This isn't the "party of Lincoln." It's a party founded on and animated by the politics of racial segregation.

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The Stupid Party Rages On

Donald Trump didn’t create a “new” Republican Party. He just plastered his brand on a faction of the party already dominant in the Deep South. As history reveals and as GOP leader…

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Despite significant & documented evidence to the contrary, the Cruz campaign claims the 2AM tweetstorm was entirely organic (& not a Thunderclap or scheduled). Their theory: Hundreds of Texans- almost simultaneously- clicked a share button on one of their previous tweets at 2AM.

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"History will remember Sen. John Neely Kennedy the way he deserves to be remembered: As a seditious & un-American pretender who takes advantage of every play for attention by fear-mongering & perpetuating misinformation." - Katie Bernhardt, @LaDemos . Appropriately savage, A+

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Legislation ending surprise medical billing was headed toward passage until private equity firms launched a dark money campaign, recruiting Sen. Bill Cassidy to rewrite the rules. Since then, the firms have showered him w/ nearly $60K in campaign cash.

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1. I’m calling the paper the Times-Picayune, not three different names. 2. They’re doing a spectacular job. 3. The NYT needs to rehire a Gulf Coast correspondent, and WaPo needs to open a permanent desk in NOLA. 4. National reporters: Take notes.

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National News Coverage of Tropical Storm Barry Is Its Own Disaster

Yesterday, “America’s weatherman,” Al Roker, provided some unsolicited advice to the good people of New Orleans: If he lived here, he would “make plans now” to evacuate. It’s a good idea to be prep…

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In my precinct in New Orleans, John Bel Edwards received 155 votes. Eddie Rispone got 4.

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John Goodman narrated a commercial for the NBC affiliate here in New Orleans that declared the entire state of Louisiana is supporting the Bengals in the Super Bowl. Fact Check: True.

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Now might be a good time for Louisiana—and America—to get reacquainted w/ "THE PERSONA" representing the state's 3rd district, Clay Higgins, the only member of Congress to ever return 2 different police badges instead of facing discipline for misconduct:

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Offering to pay for a person of color to leave this country is a white supremacist trope. Louisiana already knows this. It’s *literally* the same message once offered by David Duke.

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There’s no question that the members of Congress that @realDonaldTrump called out have absolutely said anti-American and anti-Semitic things. I’ll pay for their tickets out of this country if they just tell me where they’d rather be.

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Everyday the folks at @theadvocatebr are reminded that they won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of reports about how Louisiana's non-unanimous jury law was a vestige of Jim Crow. Remember how you defended that law? Arguably your most magnificent Supreme Court defeat of all-time.

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Everyday I remind myself that the folks who run the @theadvocatebr are the same ones who bankrupted the Times Picayune! So if or when you read it keep that in mind!

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Lamar White, Jr.

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Years ago, the press in Baton Rouge wondered why their congressman's property tax assessment seemed ridiculously low. As a follow-up: Bill Cassidy is now in the Senate, and his 6,400 sqft home on a triple-sized lot right on the lake by LSU is valued at $358,700. A bargain.

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

No sensible or decent human being would disagree with what Beto said here, but that's not why the Cruz campaign posted this. They don't care about what he said; they want to frighten white voters about where he said it and the reception it received. That's what this was about.

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Ted Cruz

6 years

In Beto O'Rourke's own words #TXSenateDebate

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Lamar White, Jr.

5 years

I did not have sexual relations with those pharmacies.

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Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

"This is the best day Louisiana has had in the 21st century." - @JamesCarville "Big Oil is no longer the sacred cow in Louisiana." - @ltgrusselhonore "An extraordinary victory for the people of Louisiana." - John Carmouche via @BayouBrief

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A Trio of Trump Appointees Give Louisiana a Game-Changing Victory in Coastal Damages Suit Against...

In a terse, five-page opinion, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reject Big Oil’s last ditch effort at avoiding accountability in state court.

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Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

On National Voter Registration Day, @Louisiana_sos —Republican Kyle Ardoin— takes down the state's website for "scheduled maintenance," making online voter registration impossible. A disclaimer states the site will be back up at noon tomorrow.

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Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

Not sure what's funnier: The fact that less than an hour later, the Supreme Court denied certiorari for the Republicans' last-ditch effort in Pennsylvania or that Jeff Landry deliberately attached a picture of him looking like the Church Lady to this post.

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Lamar White, Jr.

5 years

“How sweet it is!” Gov. Edwards says as he takes the podium. “And as for the President, God bless his heart.”

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Lamar White, Jr.

8 years

15. He's on track to charge taxpayers $277 million for trips & his wife's accommodations in NYC in his very first year as President.

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

The responses have been overwhelming, insightful, and important. For the past 12.5 years, I've worked on confronting the legacies & realities of institutional racism in the Deep South. We launched @bayoubrief as a Louisiana-based, nonprofit, reader-supported publication.

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

Perkins, a Shreveport mayoral candidate, alleges he and others were listed as signatories to a letter entered into the record and mentioned during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing without their consent.

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

After American journalists were murdered in their newsroom, a well-known Louisiana Twitter account taunted The Times-Picayune. The Business of Shaming

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The Business of Shaming

After American journalists were murdered in their newsroom, a well-known Louisiana Twitter account taunted The Times-Picayune.

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Lamar White, Jr.

5 years

Father embraced his son after the game and held on while telling him about believing in himself. It is a poignant scene.

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Cody Worsham

5 years

What a moment for Clyde Edwards-Helaire

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

So, who, exactly, was the one person on the flight back to New Orleans who didn't bother to stand and applaud? Hey, look, that'd be the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana, @SenJohnKennedy . "He just sat there the entire time," the witness said. "Everyone recognized him."

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Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

Louisiana's Bill Cassidy could have put his medical degree to great use on a massive scale, writes Dr. Jaya McSharma, but instead, he cowered before the politics of the moment.

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Bill Cassidy is Unseasoned Potato Salad

Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy could have put his medical degree to great use on a massive scale, but instead, he cowered before the politics of the moment.

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@LamarWhiteJr

Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

32.4% of John Neely Kennedy’s constituents are African American. That’s 1.5 million people. On a per capita basis, he represents more African Americans in the Senate than anyone other than Cindy Hyde-Smith (who spoke nostaligically about public lynchings) & Roger Wicker of MS.

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CNN Politics

4 years

Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, says an amendment to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military property "picks on the South unfairly"

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Lamar White, Jr.

4 years

Jeff Landry's perfect record is in tact after losing his lawsuit today against Advocate reporter @aegallo .

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Lamar White, Jr.

6 years

Tomorrow, Mississippi can turn the page

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Today, Mississippi can turn the page

Tuesday’s runoff election for US Senate in Mississippi could define the state’s future and close an ugly chapter of its past.

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