Louisiana Voice

Even as the Livingston Parish Library Board of Control continues to search for a new parish library director after its exercise in ineptitude in FIRING THE PREVIOUS DIRECTOR as per the wishes of Michael Lunsford and his CITIZENS FOR A NEW LOUISIANA, Lunsford’s influence continues to infest the local political scene with his toxic influence.

The parish council voted to remove the entire library board back in January 2025 by setting “a new table, put a new table cloth, put new silverware, put new people around the table with the same directions and … see if we can get things done on a more professional level,” in the words of parish council member Ricky Goff, whatever that was supposed to mean.

Some parish council members, notably Erwin Sandefur, Dean Coates, Ryan Chavers and Joe Erdy, OBJECTED to removing the entire board. Sandefur and Erdy, in particular, wanted the parish council to reappoint their two members, Larry Davis and Summer Smith, both of whom were ultimately rejected in the sweeping coup, er… housecleaning.

Fast forward to 2026 and the congressional reapportionment mulligan exercised by the Louisiana Legislature and U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields was squeezed out of the 6^th District, throwing the contest for a successor into disarray.

Into the breach stepped former Livingston Parish Library Board member Davis, a rarity in Livingston Parish in that he is a Black Republican who is also a minister and who is now preaching the Gospel of Deity of Cheeto Jesus Trump, the Alpha Molester in Chief.

His WEB PAGE touting his candidacy checks off all the prerequisites of any campaign in a red state—Economic Growth, Border Security, Public Safety, Parental Rights, Energy Independence, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutional Freedoms and Military Strength—as if Repugnantcans held a monopoly on such issues.

As long as the economy and fiscal responsibility are on Davis’s mind, this might be a good time to remind him and all Repugnantcans that under the Decomposing Jack O’Lantern’s second term, the national debt has increased by $3.1 trillion (with a “T”) and inflation is eroding middle America’s standard of living quicker than you can say sexual predator.

So, what makes the candidacy of Larry Davis so interesting?

As always, follow the money. The list of contributors to his fledgling campaign is interesting, to say the least.

Take William Mills of Lafayette, for example. Mills has thus far kicked in a single $3500 contribution to the Davis campaign.

Who is William Mills, you ask?

Well, besides being a 2025 recipient of something called the Horatio Alger Award, he’s one of the biggest supporters and a BOARD MEMBER of Lunsford’s Citizens for a New Louisiana, the organization that’s behind the statewide push to censor public libraries and hold them to Lunsford’s arbitrary standards of puritanical doctrine.

Other individuals who are been front and center in the attack on the First Amendment include the campaigns of Rep. Kellee Hennessee Dickerson (R-Denham Springs), Sen. Valerie Hodges (R-Denham Springs), $1,000 each.

For a list of all his donors, go HERE.