Statement from Cassidy Campaign on Landry's DEI Investigation

Baton Rouge, LA - Yesterday, Governor Jeff Landry sent a letter calling on the U.S. Department of Education to expand its investigation into DEI activities at Louisiana's universities. For members of the media covering Landry's letter, please consider the following comment from the Bill Cassidy for U.S. Senate campaign:

"If Jeff Landry wants to investigate DEI practices in our public colleges and universities, he should start with Julia Letlow and her long-standing support of diversity, equality, and inclusion at the University of Louisiana Monroe."

Liberal Julia Letlow's record of 'championing DEI' during her time at the University of Louisiana Monroe speak for themselves:

• Letlow's history with DEI foes back to at least 2011, when she taught "Diversity in the Workplace" at Tulane.

• Letlow was in charge of ULM's comms/external affairs when the school erected a giant Black Lives Matter public artwork display on campus in 2021

• Letlow organized DEI workshops to insert woke content into the curriculum, joined an anti-racist organization, and signed a statement "embracing diversity" after George Floyd's death.

• "During her time at the university, Letlow helped initiate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) workshops, associated with an anti-racist organization and signed a statement 'condemning racism and embracing diversity"

• In Congress, Letlow steered $2.5 million in taxpayer funds to a Biden-era NSA program designed to "increase diversity within the field of cybersecurity" through Grambling State University.

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