Got to looking at the Laconica API and noticed that they built a Twitter compatible API. This got me thinking that LINQ to Twitter might work with Laconica. So, I pointed LINQ to Twitter at http://jtweeter.com and fired it up:
var twitterCtx = new TwitterContext(userName, password, "http://jtweeter.com/api/", "http://search.twitter.com/");
var publicTweets =
from tweet in twitterCtx.Status
where tweet.Type == StatusType.Public
select tweet;
publicTweets.ToList().ForEach(
tweet => Console.WriteLine(
"User Name: {0}, Tweet: {1}",
tweet.User.Name,
tweet.Text));
And Success!