Jindal and ethics, not an encouraging start.
Nov 1st, 2007 by Daniel Z.
Jindal seems to not only be rewarding campaign staffers with jobs in his administration, but with campaign contributors as well. In his campaign victory speech, Jindal stated
Who you know will no longer be more important than what you know.
So who you know is less important that what you know, but “who you pay” is even more important.
And it seems that others are jumping on the “ban corporate campaign contributions” bandwagon!
CenLaMar refers to Mike Stagg’s site that spells out exactly out campaign finance laws can be circumvented. I am very happy to see more people jumping on this bandwagon. (I mentioned this on the radio back in August)
But what is really bothersome are his answers to a Boston paper.
And while he acknowledges that some of the concerns are more about perception than reality, he said they can still harm the state’s ability to attract businesses and its requests for aid to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
So after all his “corrupt crowd” attacks and his 31 point plans, is Bobby Jindal really trying to say that the concerns are more about perception than reallity? Thanks to JoeFromLa for this.
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So Louisiana looks like it is going to have it is own Revolving door ofOil Industry and Exxon Members running the energy and environmental policies for the State… http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/10990146.html
Talk about letting the Fox watch the Hen House….
What is Jindal doing about this now?
FEMA protects itself — not evacuees — from toxic trailers.
Last year, a report found that 94 percent of emergency housing trailers for Katrina victims contained “hazardous levels of formaldehyde.” CBS News reports that while “50,000 families along the Gulf Coast” are still forced to live in these trailers, FEMA has prohibited “its own staff from even briefly stepping inside trailers once residents have moved out” because of safety concerns:
In an Oct 19 email, a worker asks if there is “any safety reason you know of that says we can’t go into a [deactivated or previously used] trailer quickly to shut a vent.”
The response from the director of the Baton Rouge office, Jon Byrd, said, “the issue is formaldehyde.”
Then, on Oct. 22, this final answer from FEMA’s head of safety in Washington, David Chawaga: “Please reinforce … FEMA employees do not enter stored TTs until further notice…”
Considering it took Jindal about 10 months to make toxic FEMA trailers an issue, I would guess Jindal will tackle this next August.
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My guess is that Jindal will be the first non-white President. The Republicans will promote him. Any reason to believe he will not be on the ticket, or the nominee, by 2016/2020 after he claims to have turned Louisiana around.
Jindal’s extreme right winged views may not have hurt him in Louisiana but he would absolutely be rejected for them on the national stage. Nobody who believes that a raped and impregnated 12 year old should be forced to keep it will ever be elected president.
Even our current President believes in a rape exception.
Jindal Fan. Don’t look past 2012, it’s a waste of time. Besides we’ll all be Chinese in a few years anyways.
Still whining I see Danny Z.
[…] And while these are not charges and not proof of anything wrong, Jindal did say that our states ethics concerns are more about perception than reallity. So, what will the perception be when a Governor, who ran on an ethics platform, is now suspected of ethics violations less than one month into his term. […]
[…] Over on Jindalisbad.com, I showed where Bobby Jindal claimed that most of Louisiana’s ethics problems nationwide are because of a “perception” problem then because of “reality” (even though he campaigned against the “corrupt crowd” and had all these grand plans to solve Louisiana’s ethics problems). Now, Jindal’s deputy chief of staff is also discussing fixing the perception of unethical behavior instead of actually solving the problem of unethical behavior. […]
In actuality Bobby Jendal is on the right track you are upset that you have to give and account for what you are doing. Some people never learn they are so use to Louisiana being crooked that when someone comes in and trys to fix thing they will try anything to try to make them look bad even if it is a lie.
If you teid helping Bobby Jendal riether than smear him you may find that this States reputation will improve.
This world of ours is so **#@ up it is pathectic everone is out just for themself please if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem and need to be quite.
David: I am all for fixing the ethical problems that this State has. The way to do that is not to put up a facade in order to change the “perception” that other states have of us. The way to do that is to actually fix the ethics problems we have. Unfortunately for our state, Jindal campaign on the latter but only focused on the former in his special session.
The logical fallacy you are having is that you assume that just because I am critical of Bobby Jindal that I am against ethics reform. In reallity, I am critical of Bobby Jindal BECAUSE he is not bringing true ethics reform.
People SHOULD be part of the solution. However, with Jindal’s hypocritical “do as I say, not as I do” attitude, he IS part of the problem.