Jindal should resign now.
Oct 22nd, 2007 by Daniel Z.
Jindal is going to wait until shortly before he takes office to resign and I think that this is a mistake. When Bobby Jindal resigns the Secretary of State will have to call a special election.
Jindal is going to be very busy with his transition team, do we really believe he will be able to do his job in Congress while working on his transition to Governor? I don’t think so.
Regardless of when he resigns, we will have to go without Congressional representation for the time between the resignation and the election. However, if he waits to resign, that will make the time we go without representation even longer.
Resigning early is the right thing. Jindal’s should not accept a paycheck from the Federal Government when he won’t be doing his job.
So there you have it, it hasn’t even been 2 days and Jindal has already made his first wrong decision.
(23 votes, average: 2.39 out of 5)
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Nowhere…Jindal is a low down dirty bastard and now he has 4 years to prove that they were all right. Just like Bush did.Otherwise why would he speak out against Larry Craig but then go silent on David Vitter?Be careful or you are going to learn what hypocrite truly is if you stick around.Big Oil Lobbyist and Jindal Campaign Fundraiser Stephen Waguespack was named Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy by Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal.
I agree we should have a Rep in place as soon as possible. One who’s attention is soley on representing District 1. This isn’t a knock against him it’s just the prudent thing to do.
I agree that the prudent thing to do would be to resign immediately. He is going to be too busy to do both jobs at once.
However, if he collects his congressional paycheck, I will have a problem with that if he is incapable of doing the job he was elected to do in Congress.
Exactly! Check out my letter to the Advocate reporter who claims it is a landslide, defends it but has no comment at all on my other points, one of which is Jindal’s AWOL attendance record in the House, which the reporter refuses to address:
Advocate misleading or “liar” article:
“Jindal carries 60 parishes in landslide win
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/10709521.html”
My response letter:
“Jindal did not “landslide” as he missed getting over 50% of the vote in many more than four parishes. In those parishes where he did not get over 50%, if there was a run-off he surely would not have “carried” them!
You article is misleading. No landslide! We’ll see if that landfill permit sails through DEQ shortly.
Now is the time to redouble your efforts to see how those at the trough get their returns for their $5000+ contributions, one of which is Boysie Bollinger who gave $95,000 to Jindal via his 19 LLCs. That is certainly not in the spirit of campaign limitations.
Given the fact that the other candidates came in late, were not known and had less money to spend (Jindal had more-your article implies he was not “well-financed”), it is no surprise that someone with $12 million of Big Money Corporate contributions would win, especially as he has spent the last eight years running for Governor!
So what is Jindal up to now? Is he going to return to his job until he is sworn in, a job for which he is now and has been getting paid $165,000 per year? Yeah, right!
He should return his Congressional salary as he is an AWOL representative.
Sincerely,
John Babin”
The lame response:
Sentell, Will
“Story did not say Jindal won with a landslide in every parish carried. It is a landslide, analysts said, because 11 competitors could not keep him under 54 percent of the vote.
Will Sentell
The Advocate”
Link to the map where it shows J is not really a “landslide”:
http://cenlamar.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/ceci-nest-pas-un-mandat/
Get a load of this,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/washington/17lobby.html?_r=1&oref=login
October 17, 2007
An Ex-Leader in Congress Is Now Turkey’s Man in the Lobbies of Capitol Hill
By MARILYN W. THOMPSON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — Since leaving Capitol Hill in 1999, former Representative Robert L. Livingston has been the main lobbyist for Turkey in blocking Congressional efforts to pass an Armenian genocide resolution.
After succeeding twice before — and collecting more than $12 million in fees for his firm, the Livingston Group — he is pushing once again for his client.
In recent months, Mr. Livingston, a Louisiana Republican who was once speaker-designate of the House, has consulted with Vice President Dick Cheney and with Karl Rove, when he was still the top White House political strategist. He escorted Turkish dignitaries to Capitol Hill to warn that the resolution threatened to destroy a strong Iraq war alliance.
He made a phone call that helped persuade a Louisiana member to change his position and got other Republicans to remove their names from a growing list of co-sponsors. And he courted a powerful Democrat, Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, who earlier this year asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Democrat, not to bring the measure up for a House vote.
Mr. Livingston has also showered money on House and Senate members, the National Republican Congressional Committee and other political causes. He and his firm gave more than $200,000 in campaign donations in the last election cycle, records show.
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a nonbinding resolution condemning as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915. Ms. Pelosi, a strong supporter, promised Sunday to bring the matter up for a floor vote before Congress recesses in mid-November.
But this week, a surge of defections by members who backed the resolution showed that Mr. Livingston’s high-powered effort was gaining momentum.
As Turkey reacted angrily to the House committee action in the last few days, members began responding to arguments that the resolution posed a national security threat. Those arguments were put forth by the Bush administration, Mr. Livingston and another prominent lobbyist, Richard A. Gephardt, of Missouri, the former House majority leader and a Democrat.
The issue has pitted Turkey’s money and high-placed connections against a persistent and emotional campaign by Armenian-American citizens’ groups.
“The Turks have done everything they possibly could,” said former Representative Stephen J. Solarz, whose firm got $165,000 this summer lobbying for Turkey under an arrangement with Mr. Livingston. Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, a resolution sponsor, called Turkey’s lobbying “the most intense I’ve ever seen.”
Both Mr. Livingston, who opposed a genocide resolution while in Congress, and Mr. Gephardt declined to discuss their work for Turkey, referring questions to the Turkish Embassy.
But records filed at the Justice Department show Turkish expenditures since August 2006 of about $3.2 million for lobbyists and public relations firms. In Mr. Livingston’s case, the reports offer details of his lobbying efforts.
Mr. Gephardt, a senior counsel at the law firm of DLA Piper who retired from Congress in 2005, began working for Turkey in March under a yearlong contract worth $1.2 million. He has been criticized by Armenian-Americans because he previously supported Armenia and co-sponsored an earlier genocide resolution.
Mr. Gephardt now has concerns related to national security, said Michael Messman, a lobbying colleague of Mr. Gephardt.
Turkey has never mustered the intense grass-roots support in the United States that has been Armenia’s strength, with constituents pressing lawmakers to back the measure. Records show that Armenia has spent far less money on lobbying. Its largest expenditure went to the public relations firm of Burson-Marsteller, which earned about $300,000 from August 2006 to April 2007.
After Mr. Livingston resigned from the House in 1999 amid disclosures about an extramarital affair, Turkey retained the Livingston Group, his new bipartisan firm. It has built a large foreign practice, representing among others the governments of Azerbaijan, the Congo Republic and the Cayman Islands. More than a quarter of the firm’s income, which has totaled more than $71 million, has come from foreign clients, records show.
Mr. Livingston earned Turkey’s gratitude by helping stop two resolutions in 2000 and 2004. When Democrats took control of the House last year, Turkey continued to rely on him as its principal lobbyist, though it eventually brought in Mr. Gephardt’s firm. Reports on Mr. Gephardt’s activities have not been filed.
Mr. Livingston contacted Mr. Rove on Nov. 28, 2006, just after a Livingston Group lobbyist attended a weekend retreat at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia for key Congressional supporters of Turkey. In January, Mr. Livingston talked with a Cheney aide and prepared for Capitol Hill visits by Ambassador Nabi Sensoy of Turkey and other officials.
Mr. Schiff, the California Democrat, introduced the resolution on Jan. 30, with 160 co-sponsors.
The next day, the records show, Mr. Livingston called Representative Bobby Jindal, Republican of Louisiana, a backer. Mr. Jindal promptly withdrew his name.
In December 2006, Mr. Livingston and an associate contributed $10,000 to Mr. Jindal’s campaign for governor of Louisiana. Mr. Jindal’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Livingston’s courtship of Mr. Murtha began in February. After a meeting with Mr. Livingston and another lobbyist from the firm, Mr. Murtha was among a group of members who met with Mr. Livingston, Mr. Sensoy and the Turkish foreign minister, Abdullah Gul. Long opposed to a genocide resolution, Mr. Murtha wrote Ms. Pelosi on Feb. 8 asking her not to allow a floor vote.
Mr. Livingston contributed $3,000 to Mr. Murtha’s campaign in February. A Murtha aide said the contribution reflects support for his record on the issue.
On April 24, the annual observance of the Armenian genocide, President Bush made a brief tribute to the dead, avoiding the term genocide. In Congress, attention focused on the Iraq war.
The resolution soon rebounded. Mr. Livingston made a concerted, though unsuccessful, effort to win over Representative Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, a Holocaust survivor and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. Lantos had opposed a similar resolution in 2000.
Mr. Livingston took Turkish officials to meet Mr. Lantos, then met with him again on May 18. A Livingston associate gave $500 to his campaign in March.
Mr. Livingston met with Mr. Cheney on May 4, and an associate consulted a Cheney aide four times from July 10 to July 20.
Mr. Livingston continued to push lawmakers to change their positions. Representative Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, signed up as a co-sponsor on June 26, then changed his mind two days later after a call from the lobbyist.
Representative Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, withdrew his support on June 27 after meeting with Mr. Livingston, Mr. Jindal and a member of the Turkish Parliament.
Mr. Livingston’s logs end at July 31. His firm will file another report detailing activities up to and including the House committee vote in favor of the resolution. Since then, a Republican and a group of Democrats have dropped their backing.
Kitty Bennett contributed reporting.
If you want to Watch Jindal you do well to keep a close eye on the Livingston Group and The Bob guy….
K Street (and Jindal, through cronie relations) Cashes In On The Armenian Genocide
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:9oC2bYEbOTAJ:www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi%3D20070723%26s%3Dcrowley072307%26c%3D2+jindal+%22livingston+group%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a
You forgot an important part of the quote.
Stop the presses! I’ll verify tomorrow I was called by two other candidates one who had been in contact with the SOS office. Through T. Lee Horne I have it that the SOS office admitted a glitch in they system that diverted votes from second teir candidates to Jindal. This is what his campaign manager reports. I will confirm tomorrow. Sheldon Forest called me today with the same claims. He investigated and found that each booth’s computer has a clock in it. Why does a counter need a clock? The word is that the SOS’s office is going to reset the clocks and see when or if vote diverting took place. I will call the Libertarian party head for LOuisiana tonight. Dan Z I tried calling Walter but he is out. Maybe you know someone in the party that can give a call and see what’s up.
I saw this on oyster’s blog. Ill contact someone in the Louisiana Democratic Party tomorrow to see if they are going to act on it.
I hope you guys stick around. This weblog is now more important than ever. Especially over the next 4 years of shenanigans that we are bound to have….
So Mr. Dan Z. know-it-all where are your cries for Hillary to not collect her Senate salary as she “Roves” across the nation spewing her Socialistic Drivel disguised as a Presidential Campaign?
Think a little before making a Jackass of yourself by carrying the water of the Democrat Party with your uneducated paroxysms!!!
Paul: Let me see, this thread is about Bobby Jindal not resigning after he already won his election and you are referring to Hillary Clinton, a person who has not yet won her election. You are really comparing apples and oranges.
Now, you could have compared Jindal’s missing votes while running to Hillary’s missing votes while running. And on that issue I have also been clear. Anybody (Democrat or Republican) who misses votes because they are campaigning (even if it is for reelection) should be docked pay. Hillary has missed 64 (16.2%) votes in the current Congress. Jindal has missed 234 (23.2%) votes in the current congress. Both of them should be docked pay… period.
And I have been critical of Hillary moving to New York to run for Senate. So you are clearly ignorant of the facts and just make wild assumptions about me just because I am a Democrat and I have the nerve to be critical of Bobby Jindal.
He’s been neglecting his job since he started running, what’s a few more months? Anyways, maybe it’ll keep him from focusing totally on screwing up Louisiana for at least a little while longer.
JINDAL IS THE GREATEST GOVERNOR THAT THE USA HAS PRODUCED
Jindal for Veep
Its a democracy, if we majority decides that he becomes the Veep, there’s nothing anyone can do.
heheheheheheh
Now Sam, do you know how completely absurd those comments are?
First of all, Jindal hasn’t even been sworn in as Governor, so how on earth can you say he is the greatest one?
Second of all, we are not a majority rules nation. Nothing is ever decided because the “majority” of US Voters voted a certain way. It would be quite possible for the majority of voters to vote for a ticket that had Jindal on the ballot but still have the other ticket win. I think Sam needs a lesson in civics.