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6 Apr, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Rep. @RayGarofalo is the head of the Louisiana House Ed Committee. He filed a bill to block teaching and training about systemic racism and sexism in K-12 schools and universities.

.@LSU told @JC_Canicosa that it had "no comment" on the bill yesterday. lailluminator.com/2021/04/06/lou…
LSU's comment is interesting, in part because @RayGarofalo may have filed a bill after LSU hosted a panel discussion on "White Rage" -- which he complained about.

The bill might also make it harder for LSU to respond to its sexual violence scandal, advocates said. #lalege
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@LSUpresident has touted his new contracts with
@staradvocates in the wake of LSU's sexual violence scandal.

But STAR says it couldn't provide the training it intended to if Garofalo's bill passes. STAR's training addresses systemic sexism. #lalege
“This legislation would really compromise the work we’ve already started." - Racheal Hebert, CEO and president of @staradvocates, which advocates for sexual assault victims.

Read more of this story from @JC_Canicosa lailluminator.com/2021/04/06/lou… #lalege #lagov

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9 Apr
FWIW: Some women lawmakers told me that they may see more urgency to fire someone at LSU than @LouisianaGov because they are receiving lots of messages from students/former students who haven't gone public about their bad experiences with certain LSU officials. #lalege
When I asked @LouisianaGov why he and the women lawmakers had different opinions on whether more people should be fired at LSU, he essentially said the women lawmakers should name the people they want fired publicly. #lalege Image
.@LouisianaGov is right. The women lawmakers have called for more people to be fired at LSU over this scandal, but they haven't used specific names publicly

Three people come up over and over again in private conversations though: Ausberry, Segar and Jonathan Sanders. #lalege
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9 Apr
Women in the Louisiana Legislature and @LouisianaGov have had very different reactions to @LSU's domestic/sexual violence scandal.

Women lawmakers want LSU to fire more people over it. @LouisianaGov called LSU's response "reasonable" yesterday. #lalege lailluminator.com/2021/04/09/lou…
It's not necessarily new that women lawmakers and @LouisianaGov are having different reactions to LSU's scandal, but it was really apparent yesterday because Edwards and the women spoke publicly about it.

Here's some of what I'm talking about....
Yesterday, @TeamKCP pressed LSU officials about why no one had been fired. “Heads need to roll,” she said.

A couple of hours later, @LouisianaGov said:

“I accepted the measures that were dispensed by the LSU president as being within the reasonable range,” #lalege
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8 Apr
.@LouisianaGov has started his weekly press conference.

He is going to go over his legislative package, which can be found here: gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/news…
.@LouisianaGov is reporting 15 deaths today in Louisiana due to #COVID19. He says he hopes he is getting close to a day when he gets to report no deaths. #lalege #lagov
"We are going to continue to talk about these two things: masks and vaccinated." - @LouisianaGov
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8 Apr
Sen. Beth Mizell raises concerns about whether the search for LSU president will transparent.

The process -- when @BobbyJindal was in office -- to hire King Alexander was not transparent, to say the least. #lalege
Also worth noting that LSU seems to be relatively far away from hiring a permanent president. King Alexander left in December of 2019. LSU looks like its going to be without a permanent president for at least 18 months. #lalege #lagov
It's taken @sahilferty five questions of DeCuir for him to start naming the people at LSU assigned to protect students.

DeCuir has made clear -- as general counsel -- that his "client" is the LSU Board of Supervisors -- not the students if the two interests conflict. #lalege
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6 Apr
There's a lot of new information that is disturbing and upsetting in this most recent @USATODAY story from @kennyjacoby about @LSUathletic.

If you thought the allegations couldn't get worse, they can and they did.....

usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Sharon Lewis, from LSU Athletics, said when she tried to push back against Les Miles' demands that she fire Black female student workers and replace them with blond (and white) student workers or "lighter skinned" Black female student workers....she was punished. #lalege
Lewis is now bringing a lawsuit (and a bunch of other actions) against a lot of people at LSU over the way they treated her.

Notably, she's bringing it under an "organized crime" statute. Louisiana lawmakers have been comparing the athletics department to the mafia recently. Image
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8 Feb
In light of the @USATODAY reporting on sexual misconduct/domestic violence allegations within LSU's football team, I decided to ask what type of preventative training was being done in LSU athletics. Here are some of the highlights of what I found... lailluminator.com/2021/02/08/lsu…
From 2016-2020, the bulk of LSU Athletics' sexual misconduct prevention training was provided PFA Consulting, a group owned by former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe. During this same time, nine members of the football team were accused of sexual misconduct/domestic violence.
LSU's athletic department, with funding provided by Tiger Athletic Foundation, spent at least $128k on sexual misconduct training from 2016-2020 -- again at a time when many football players were being accused of sexual violence/domestic abuse.
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