Bobby Jindal Is Bad!

The advisory council appointed by Bobby Jindal to suggest ethics reform has completed its suggestions. There are some good ideas in the plan and I will not begrudge anybody for trying to clean up Louisiana. However, this statement explains why Louisiana will still be a corrupt state after all is said and done.

10. Undertake a review to reform campaign finance laws. Because this issue was not a primary focus of the Council, members recommend conducting additional research to determine specific measures for campaign finance reform. 

            The fact that campaign finance law was not a primary focus of the Council says a lot about how meaningful this reform will be. Of course, I am not surprised that Bobby Jindal did not make campaign finance reform a priority. Bobby Jindal benefits by our current system of campaign finance laws. As I have shown both on here and on jindalisbad.com, and others have showed on other sites, Bobby Jindal has gotten campaign contributions from people who abuse the loopholes by using multiple corporations to funnel tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign.

            In fact, I wonder how many of these suggestions made by the advisory council will impact Bobby Jindal’s reelection campaign. My guess would be that nothing in what is suggested will impact Bobby Jindal whatsoever. I am sure any legislation will be drafted in such a way to make sure that Bobby Jindal can follow the same unethical practices he embraced in previous campaigns.

            Finally, if you want to know how tough Bobby Jindal is going to be on ethics reform, all you have to do is look at his executive order on the required financial disclosures of his cabinet members. They are not required to file them immediately, or in 30 days or even 90 days. They have to file them by January 2009. Such tough standards Jindal has set up for his own staff… a year? You have to be kidding me! Oh, I’m sure his worshipers will still lift him up as a paragon of virtue. And I am sure than when an ethics bill gets passed he will be seen as a hero and the T-P will sing the praises of Jindal and his hard work.

Cross posted on LJ4A

Im just sayin…

Well, today is the first day of a long four years. Bobby Jindal will be inaugurated in what will most likely be a celebration of pipe dreams and hopes based on false praise of Jindal’s past “successes”.

In yesterday’s T-P, they continued their inability to find facts when it comes to their beloved Bobby Jindal. They cannot seem to help themselves. The first sentence starts off the spin:

Bobby Jindal, the immigrants’ son whose exemplary public service made him the wunderkind of Louisiana politics

Exemplary? I was unaware that not doing your job and collecting a paycheck is exemplary. See Bobby Jindal has missed many votes in Congress, going over a month between votes at times. Yet, he collected a paycheck. I was also unaware that cutting healthcare to the needy is also “exemplary”. The reason Bobby Jindal is the wunderkind of Louisiana politics is because hack newspaper editors, instead of grasping their duty to inform, decide to sell the garbage that Jindal and his campaign has distributed to them. If the T-P had a nose, it would be brown.

He will be Louisiana’s first non-white chief executive since post-Civil War Reconstruction and the first Indian-American to govern a U.S. state. 

Again, more failures of fact checking. Kris Kolluri served as Governor for a very short time. Jindal is the first elected Governor.

A former head of the Department of Health and Hospitals, Gov.-elect Jindal also can appreciate the importance of rebuilding a medical school in New Orleans to anchor a biomedical research park.

Why should Jindal appreciate anything about healthcare? He did not appreciate the fact that by closing clinics and removing access to medical services to those who need them that the state’s health ranking would drop. But hey, I have long since given up on the T-P and their ability to give something called the truth.

The state’s future will be shortchanged, however, if we fail to reverse our corrupt reputation. Gov.-elect Jindal plans to deliver on a campaign promise by strengthening the state’s weak ethics laws during a special session expected next month.

Of course he hasn’t shared the legislation he will push. He also has never mentioned that he will bring campaign finance reform and eliminate corporate contributions. Without closing that loophole, you won’t have true ethics reform. Of course, considering Bobby Jindal benefits from the loophole, I will not hold my breath.

Im sure there will be many cheers by the die hard supporters as Bobby “the wunderkind” Jindal and his wife “Suburban Supermom” Supriya stand there smiling for the cameras. But for some reason I keep expecting to hear Dark Helmet  exclaiming “fooled you“.

Cross posted at lj4a.com

Update 1: The January 17th T-P continues the lies about Bobby Jindal. Either that or they are doing some really good drugs.

Then-Rep. Jindal was instrumental in securing a share of federal offshore oil and gas revenues.

Wrong. Bobby Jindal fought for his bill to pass until he won the 2006 election. In doing so he fought against the Domenici-Landrieu bill (the actual bill that got signed by the President). Mary Landrieu, not Bobby Jindal, was instrumental in securing a share of federal offshore oil and gas revenues. Bobby Jindal only changed his mind once his 2006 race was over and there could be no risk of an opponent using his flawed bill against him.

Jindal has selected Alan Levine,  former health care advisor to Jeb Bush, to head up the Louisiana Department of Health. And apparently he has set the bar very low.

Jindal said he expects the new administration to exceed the performance of previous regimes, including his own.

It is not to hard to exceed Jindal’s performance. During his tenure Louisiana’s health ranking dropped from 48th to 50th.

Levine said his priorities will include increasing transparency to give consumers more information about health care costs and quality, cracking down on fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program, and strengthening children’s health care programs.

But wait! I thought Jindal eliminated the fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program. I guess he didn’t do as well as his campaign wanted us to believe.

Unfortunately, I don’t see any plans for increasing local clinics in rural areas. I guess that would undercut Bobby Jindal’s campaign contributors.

Cross posted at lj4a.com.

Update #1: It seems that during the Levine’s tenure at Florida’s analog of Louisiana’s Dept. of Health that people may have lost access to health care as well. Levine claims to not have known about the cuts, but as head of the department he is ultimately responsible for what happens. No wonder why Jindal likes this guy.

Even though Bobby Jindal vowed to stay out of the legislative leader selection, an article in the advocate states that State Sen. Joel Chaisson II is Bobby Jindal’s choice. Jindal claims that his holding a press conference to announce this is not an example of him backing out of that vow. However, methinks Jindal doth protest too much. I guess he thinks we are all to stupid to think that he would not lie.

I, for one, am not surprised that Bobby Jindal would say one thing and do another.

I also find  this picture interesting. Jindal’s face seems to say “thats right, you are my choice, do my bidding…. and you better say the right thing or else”.

(Cross-posted at Liberty and Justice for All)

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.

Here is my idea that I submitted.

Eliminate the ability of corporations to make campaign contributions. Under current campaign finance law, a person or legal entity may contribute up to a specified limit. However, if an individual owns a corporation, he/she may use that corporation to make another contribution up to that limit as well. The more corporations you own, the more contributions you can make to a candidate. So the only real limit on campaign contributions is the number of corporations you want to own. This is an enormous loophole in the law that needs to be shut. The Federal campaign finance laws already prohibit corporate donations and it is time that Louisiana does the same.  

You can also sublit your ideas as well. Just click here. Maybe if enough people submit this idea, they may actually pay attention to it.

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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.