Jindal: Special Ethics Session "An Absolute Home Run"
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Now that the legislature has dealt with the unthinkable -- the loss of freebie tickets to sporting and cultural (read: sporting) events -- they get to roll up their sleeves and deal with the governor's fiscal package in the regular legislative session set to begin March 9.
Louisiana desperately needs to s**tcan its disastrously punitive corporate tax system that does nothing other than impede business formation and job growth. If Estonia can do it, so can Louisiana.
Jindal seems to get it. Go, Bobby, go!
The Legislature adjourned Tuesday after handing Gov. Bobby Jindal victory on the core pieces of his ethics agenda.
“This Legislature has hit an absolute home run for the people of Louisiana,” Jindal said at a session-ending news conference.
“I’m looking forward to signing these bills into law.”
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Some of the key bills headed to Jindal’s desk would require most elected and many appointed officials to publicly disclose their personal finances; would ban legislators and some governor’s appointees from having state contracts; and would expose lobbyist dealings to more public scrutiny.
Other bills would limit the wining and dining of public officials by those seeking to influence them as well as would restrict free tickets to many sporting and cultural events.
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With the first special session at an end, Jindal said he will call a second special session starting March 9 to address more tax relief to businesses.
Though the ethics measures were substantially rewritten, the House and the Senate ratified compromises on a series of bills that gave Jindal much of what he wanted when he called the Legislature into a special session Feb. 10 to focus on changing the state’s ethics laws.
Jindal suffered some losses but proclaimed the session “a complete victory” when it came to key measures. He leaves today on a statewide tour to tout his success.
Reform LA quickly. We need a Rock Star on the national stage and he could be it.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
Go Bobby go!
Tim Schieferecke
the cupidity of the former Governor, This guy would not have gotten his chance. The dumb voters in my former state could have had Jindal six years ago.
I am so glad I don't live there anymore.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
go ahead and move out, come to the Houston area you will discover the following: Roads without giant holes in them,
social services that actually work. More LSU fans than in Louisiana, more Cajun and creole restaurants than in La.(and the best goddamn gumbo this Cajun boy ever did eat at this one place), oh yeah, and there are jobs here too. good jobs.
/sorry for being a sell out, but there it is.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Yep. No potholes, alright.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
yes, if you have to travel into the inner city everyday from the suburbs then it is bad in any city. On the other hand I have witnessed traffic in Baton Rouge now that all the New Orleans people moved there and damn, it is as bad as any big city.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
We finally have a positive, conservative political victory and instead of congratulating the La. conservative movement you tear down your former state. The future is starting to look bright in Da Boot. You may just want to come back home one day to real cajun food and real Tiger fans. Geaux Bobby Geaux!
New Orleans......Proud to Swim Home!
is the updates on "local" politicians from other areas. My governor (IL) is outed as the corrupt scum he is, Bobby is leading ethics reform. Paint me jealous.
and he really did clean up a lot of bad people in New Orleans when he first took office.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
And became a Democrat just to get elected. Since then it seemed he got sucked into Huey Long Democratic politics. Kyle and Vlad is it me, or is LA where politiicians just go to die. I am terrified that before the enxt 8 years is up I'm going to wake up and see on RS Bobby Jindal how could you? as a diary.
"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."-John McCain
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.
They come here, get elected insurance commissioner, go to white collar prison, they get out, and *then* they die.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Could really be a player on the national scale come 1012 or 1016... A deep bench is a good thing!
Does Bobby have a time machine:
Could really be a player on the national scale come 1012 or 1016
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
all those shiny new laws; it's much easier to pass them than enforce them. My state has "model" ethics and campaign disclosure laws. You might have seen us in the news a bit lately.
In Vino Veritas
That's what I like to see.