When do we get to say “I told you so”?
Feb 15th, 2008 by Daniel Z.
Over on Liberty and Justice for All, I have posted several recent discussions on the recent ethics session.
Less than a month into his term, Jindal’s campaign is being investigated for ethics violations.
Jindal avoided the public records law by only holding meetings where a quorum would not be reached.
Jindal’s administration kept up with the idea that we needed to solve the “perception” of ethics problems instead of stating that we have to solve the ethics problems.
We have seen that Jindal’s “bold” ethics agenda wont take effect until 2012. So much for his comments like “we must wipe the slate clean” and “We must be bold”.
Then Jindal wants to remove some of the transparency of the ethics board and strip them of powers, actions that the head of the ethics board thinks would remove the independence of the ethics board.
Jindal then opposes a bill that would increase transparency on the Governors office. He feels that businesses should be able to have back room deals with the state. Jindal also fails to hold his own staff up to the same standards he is demanding for others when he seemed to have no problem with Timmy Teepell getting free tickets to Hannah Montana.
As this session goes on, I am absolutely sure that we will see more and more hypocricy coming from Jindal and others in his administration. At what point will the Jindal apologists wake up and realize that, just as Dennis Green stated of the Bears, “they (the Jindal administration) are who we thought they were!”.
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I have no idea where you get your info but Bobby Jindal has been pushing for MORE transparency throughout the government. I’ll be nice and say your just misinformed. Louisiana has had one of the most corrupt state governments known to man and Blanco was a disgrace. Give him his 4 years before you decide to crucify him.
Bobby Jindal is SAYING that he is pushing for more transparency in government. However, saying and doing are two different things! Jindal opposed HB 27, did you bother reading the links where I provide the proof?
I suggest that you do your own research and not just believe what Bobby Jindal tells you. As Clancy Dubos stated in Gambit Weekly, a newspaper that endorsed him, Bobby Jindal’s gold standard is a double standard… one for him and one for everyone else.
You’re straining at gnats, Bub. You might want to give the guy a few more weeks before you write the postmortem on his term as governor. It would be almost impossible for him to be anywhere near as awful as virtually every other governor Louisiana has had since, well, uh, since there was a Louisiana.
Jubilate: If every previous governor of Louisiana has been aweful, then it would seem to be rather easy to be as bad as them.
All I am saying is that he is not the man who he claimed to be and his recent actions in government should prove it to those who didn’t want to see it previously.