Since January of 1999, Crouere
has been a radio talk show host based in New Orleans, LA. His
programs are dedicated to examining the top issues of the day on the local,
state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis,
and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators. Currently,
Crouere is host of a morning program, Ringside Politics, which airs
weekdays from 7-11 a.m. CST on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on
several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.
Crouere is also host of Ringside, a television version of the radio
program, which airs on WLAE-TV,
a PBS affiliate in New Orleans. New Orleans area
television viewers can also watch Crouere on ABC-26 TV, where he has served since 2002 as the political
analyst and provides his insight on local, state and national politics.
The website for the radio
and television program RingsidePolitics.com
provides a web poll, political rumors, a schedule of guests, and links to
a variety of Crouere's columns. He writes daily, weekly, and monthly political
analysis columns and editorials for a select number of print and on-line
publications, including BayouBuzz.com,
the Northshore Conifer, Kenner Star, New OrleansCity
Business, and the Slidell
Monthly. He provides regular columns and serves as the Political Editor
for NewOrleans.com.
He also is the editor
of a weekly e-mail newsletter, which has a circulation of 5,000 readers. Once a
month, Crouere hosts a local version of "Politically Incorrect" at
the Eiffel Society in New Orleans
called Politics with a Punch which
includes a panel of comedians, politicians, media personalities, and news
makers.
Crouere has served as moderator
for political debates and forums featuring candidates contending for elective
office, such as St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish President, New Orleans City
Council, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, LA Governor and U.S. President. He has
been the featured speaker or emcee at events across Louisiana,
speaking to over 100 clubs, organizations and schools across the state, such
as LoyolaUniversity and the Alliance for Good Government.
He has held many leadership
positions in the Louisiana Republican Party, including Deputy Chairman and
Executive Director. In 2000, he served as the Louisiana Chairman of
the Republican National Committee Catholic Task Force. For four years, he held
the position of President of the Northshore Republican Men's Club, a dynamic
GOP organization in the state's only Republican majority parish. In March of
2009, he founded the Northshore Tea Party, which has sponsored over a dozen
popular citizen rallies attracting presidential candidates like Herman Cain,
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum as well as over 10,000 attendees.
As a Louisiana Republican
Party leader and talk show host, Crouere has been interviewed for his
perspective by the New York Times, national
radio networks such as National
Public Radio, Talk America, Radio
America,
and Catholic Radio, and
national cable television networks such as Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNBC, and MSNBC.
