Bobby Jindal Is Bad!

Bobby Jindal is Bad for Louisiana for many reasons.

Questionable Campaign Contributions:

Bobby Jindal has collected campaign contributions from many questionable sources. During his first run for Congress he accepted funds from Halliburton’s PAC (Halliburton is a company that overcharged and double charged the U.S. for services). He has also accepted money from Tom Delay’s ARMPAC and people connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal. He has violated the spirit of campaign finance laws by accepting contributions from people and their varied corporations, a legal activity that basically allows the wealthy to circumvent campaign finance limitations. He accepts money from people seeking to put a landfill in our state. He criticizes other candidates for their involvement in video poker but accepts money from people involved in the video poker industry (including John Georges himself during his last campaign for Congress). How is he not a hypocrite?

Questionable votes:

Jindal has voted against the troops, against children, against a bill that would bring funding for us to fix our dead zone, against gasoline consumers, against voting rights for U.S. Citizens, and against Louisiana in support of Bush’s failed policies in Iraq.

And when Bobby Jindal is not voting against Louisiana, he just doesn’t vote!

Questionable Campaign tactics:

Bobby Jindal claimed to be against negative ads on the Jim Brown show (and on nola.com). However, the very next week he released the “clown” attack ad. He missed many debates in the campaign, what some pundits called political cowardice. He did not respect the intellectual property of Louisiana Universities. He stood by and allowed the Republican Party to tell incomplete stories about him. And he just blatantly lies.

Lack of Leadership: 

Bobby Jindal was supposed to have all this clout, at least that is what his campaign and the media told everyone in 2004 and 2006. He was supposed to be going to washington with political capital to spend to get Louisiana what it needs.

The job of a Congressman is to work with other congressmen and use your clout to convince them to support the legislation that you also support.

Bobby Jindal has consistantly ignored this portion of his job. Look at the CAFTA vote. Instead of trying to convince people to vote against it, Bobby Jindal just sat in a corner and let the bill pass. Once the bill had enough votes to pass, jindal then cast his vote against CAFTA. So, instead of working against the bill, he sat and let the bill pass and then voted against it so he wouldn’t alienate louisiana industry that would be hurt by it.

And the same thing goes for this override vote. Instead of working to get his peers to support the legislation he claimed to support, he just sat back and did nothing.

If Bobby Jindal was a leader, he would lead others to vote with him. Bobby Jindal is obviously not a leader… and we need a leader to be our next governor.

Conclusion:

This should all be enough to tell you that Bobby Jindal is not the man he claims to be and that Louisiana would not be served well by electing him Governor. And how stupid are we as a state if we are going to elect someone governor who is a die hard Republican when the Federal Government will most likely be led by Democrats for most of our next governor’s term. Electing Bobby Jindal did not make sense in 2003 and it does not make sense now. If this post has not convinced you, then please read the rest of this blog and learn why as a choice for Governor, that Bobby Jindal is Bad.