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New LPL Board of Control Member Has Close Ties to Josh Carlson

The Strategy In his time on the Lafayette Parish Council, current District 43 State Representative Josh Carlson led the way in transforming the composition of the LPL Board of Control. Beginning with Landon Boudreaux in 2020, Carlson consistently and systematically nominated and voted for conservative, overtly Christian nationalist board members who had a singular mission […]

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June 2023

LPL Board of Control Regular June Monthly Meeting 19 June 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE June marks the one-year anniversary of LPL’s director canceling displays “which single out a portion of the population,” a move made to satisfy board members’ homophobic complaints about Pride displays that were put up at a few branch

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May 2023

Parish Council Retaliation As predicted, Parish Councilman Josh Carlson did not drop his bid to rid the library board of Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s appointee. Now, instead of replacing Guillory’s pick with his own, Carlson has simply filed an introductory ordinance to remove that pick altogether. If we needed proof that dissent from the far-right Christian Nationalist

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April 2023

Parish Council Retaliation 01 April 2023 In February, Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s newest library board appointee, Marquise Watson, attended her first meeting. That month was particularly contentious, with, you may remember, Robert Judge projecting images from books he finds offensive onto the large screen at the front of the room, causing an uproar. Judge pulled this

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