Capital Republican

09/04/2025

09/04/2025

A HOSTAGE WHO SURVIVED 505 DAYS IN CAPTIVITY IN GAZA TELLS HIS STORY. This Sunday, September 7 at the Crowne Plaza in Baton Rouge.

08/29/2025

MAYOR SID EDWARDS’ NEW PODCAST BRINGS US UP TO DATE ON CRIME ISSUE, AND THERE’S GOOD NEWS

08/28/2025

LOUISIANA GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL TURN TAIL and urge the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the second majority black Congressional district they created for Cong. Cleo Fields. In January 2014, Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill told the legislature and the public that Louisiana was required by court order to create a second black congressional district. That was false. The actual facts were that the fifth circuit had ordered Judge Shelly Dick to hold a trial on the 2022 Congressional reapportionment plan passed by the legislature and on whether there should be a second black district. Governor Landry engineered having then-State Senator Cleo Fields appointed chairman of the Senate and Government Affairs Committee to lead reapportionment. Senator Fields drew a congressional district which was gerrymandered to give him a congressional seat. Attorney General Murrell proceeded to support passage of that plan and has defended that plan all the way to the u.S. Supreme Court despite the fact that it was clearly unconstitutional. The Attorney General has been defending that unconstitutional plan ever since, even after a three-judge federal panel ruled the Cleo Fields gerrymandered district to be unconstitutional. Thankfully, now the Attorney General and the governor are supporting the position they should. Namely that the Cleo Fields district is unconstitutional and so is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. — Woody Jenkins

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murril said the state will argue that race-based redistricting is unconstitutional and the map with two majority-Black districts should be thrown out.

08/28/2025

Taxation without representation

The GOP leader questioned the selection of developer Oak View Group, whose former CEO was indicted in Texas in early July.

08/27/2025

WILL METRO COUNCIL IMPOSE 1-CENT SALES TAX around the LSU campus without a vote of the people? Former Rep. Woody Jenkins discusses the important decision the Metro Council will make Wednesday night at Baton Rouge City Hall. Remarks before the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

08/25/2025

YOU ARE INVITED — LEARN MORE ABOUT THE THRIVE TAX ELECTION AND MEET CANDIDATES FOR DISTRICT JUDGE AND CITY JUDGE AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF EBR PARISH THIS TUESDAY — Lon Vicknair, Chief of Staff to Mayor-President Sid Edwards, will discuss the Thrive Tax Election at the Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish at 12 noon this Tuesday, August 26. The meeting will be held at Café Américain, 7621 Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge.

Vicknair will be joined by Metro Council member Jen Racca as they walk attendees through the Thrive plan, which will reduce City-Parish indebtedness by $53 million and provide additional resources for Baton Rouge Police and other services.

Chamber members will also hold a Candidate Forum for Candidates for District Judge and City Judge in the Oct. 11, 2025 election.

Candidates for District Judge who have confirmed their attendance are
• Dele Adebamiji
• Elzie Alford, Jr.
• Vernon Thomas
• Vicky Jones

One of the two candidates for City Judge has confirmed:
• Brenden Craig
• The other candidate, Calli Boudreaux, had a prior commitment but will be invited to speak at another meeting.

The Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish is composed of small business owners whose businesses are located in the East Baton Rouge Parish and who reside in EBR or a surrounding parish. Cecil Cavanaugh is chairman, and Woody Jenkins is president.

The public is invited to attend. Lunch is $25 payable to the restaurant. Lunch is complimentary for members of the working press. Meetings are broadcast live at Central City News on Facebook.

For information, contact Woody Jenkins at [email protected]

08/15/2025

READ THE AUGUST 2025 EDITION OF ST. GEORGE LEADER! The print edition reaches 30,000 households in City of St. George, LA. To read the print version online, click here:
https://tinyurl.com/y8s6ckt7

08/10/2025

DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROPOSED LSU ARENA? — Former Metro Councilman Darrell Glasper will unpeel the layers surrounding the proposed LSU Arena at the Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon at 12 noon, Tuesday, August 12 at Café Américain, 7521 Jefferson Hwy. in Baton Rouge.

The developer tentatively selected for the Arena was recently fined $13 million by the U.S. Department of Justice for bid-rigging in connection with a similar arena in Texas, and the CEO of that company has been charged criminally with bid-rigging by the feds. The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has issued a statement opposing any further action on the LSU Arena until there has been a full investigation of what happened in Texas and how the same company was chosen without competitive bidding for LSU.

Darrell Glasper is a former member of the Metro Council. He is a successful businessman and former minority outreach director of the Republican Party of Louisiana.

Former Business Report publisher Rolfe McCollister raised serious questions about how the arena project is being handled in his recent column: https://www.businessreport.com/opinions/rolfe-mccollister-questions-shroud-the-lsu-arena-project

Another important story: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/lsu-arena-pmac-oak-view-group/article_cc71182a-85bb-48fe-865f-84f9fbef210f.html

The Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon is sponsored by the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish and the Louisiana Republican Assembly. It is open to the public. Lunch is $25 payable to the restaurant. Lunch is complimentary for members of the working media.

The Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon is held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Café Américain. For more information, contact Republican parish chairman Woody Jenkins at [email protected] or 225-921-1433