re: Does JBE win re-election?

So how did Louisiana get back to budget and fiscal policy in the last yeas of Jindal’s term, primarily because of what he did. If you look at Figure 4 on page 25 of the Report co-authored by Prof. Richardson of LSU, you will see Louisiana’s Revenue in the 1960’s was 50% from Oil and Gas, that number as recently as circa 1980-1983, etc. was still 40%. So basically, LA could fund everything with Oil money, nobody had to pay for anything, Sales tax rate was 3%, Louisiana’s Fuel tax (2nd or 3rd lowest in the country has not been changed since the 1990’s, at I think 20 cents).

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Well starting in 2007, under Blanco and the legislature, but mainly with Jindal starting in 2008, the Stelly plan was overturned with respect to the Income Tax part. Look at Slide Presentation by Professor Richardson and others, in 2007-2008, LA changed the Income Tax structure back to Pre 2003, but did not change the sales tax. At the same time, Oil revenues in 2008 were $1.4 billion higher than they are today and just as recent as 2015 were 10% of the budget revenues, in 2017 only an estimated 4% of revenues. In 2008, Gas Prices averaged up to $4.11 in August of 2008, but by year end had dropped, but by 2012 average Gas price in USA broke the 2008 record. So, Jindal’s first term was afforded additional oil and gas revenues along with Federally directed one-time moneys from Katrina restoration, etc. That is why LA’ budget, which actually was $34 billion when he took office, got that high, because the Federal Government post Katrina provided Federal Monies which were non-recurring revenues but were needed for Post Katrina and Rita recovery, You add the additional Oil and gas Revenues and what did Jindal and the legislature do, go back to the 1970’s and early 80’s fiscal policy.

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This LA LAW review article, pp.1149-1151 summarize the Budget and tax history of LA well. The sentence starting in 2009 to 2016 LA struggled to pay its bills, how did budget get balances cuts (that means Higher ED) and listen to this "Diverting money from state accounts set aside for specific use"

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So excuse you for not reading my Bullshite, well, it appears that if you would read you would not make bullshite statements about who is writing "BULLSHITE"

that was his public stance for doing it, he did it to get on Grover Nordquist who opposes all taxes. Everything Jindal did was to position himself for National Republican politics and he did it at the expense of Louisiana. Go read the LA LAW review article I linked above, pp. 1149 to 1151. Now you honestly tell me Jindal had the best interest of the state at heart. And let me repeat, I voted for that jackass twice. No check that, 3 times, I voted for him when he ran against Mrs. Blanco.

It’s shockingly a dead heat right now. I think tie goes to the incumbent, but anything could happen. It’s practically a coin flip at this point.

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Your either a complete idiot or totally uninformed. It's one of the two

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Rispone is a hack. He published patently FALSE lies about Abraham with zero basis. He also loves hiring foreign workers at the expense of qualified Louisianans.

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Jindal got us in this mess when he killed the Stelly plan which was promoted by Governor Foster (REP) and Stelly himself (Republican) and approved by the voters. What does Jindal do, against this better judgment, he, not by himself, but he is largest culprit, killed the Stelly plan

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Uhh...know how I know you have no clue??

Jindal’s Adminiatration tried to kill Buddy Shaw’s bill in committee and on the House and Senate floor. The only vote that was not for the Shaw bill was Karen Carter Peterson, if I remember correctly. I don’t feel like trying to look up the final vote on my phone.

After the bill passed, then in true Timmy Teepel coached fashion, Bobby Jindal went to national media declaring he gave that tax break to LA citizens. But he didn’t. He lied.

Go look at the Shaw Bill’s co-authors. Did JBE sign on as a co-author after it passed? A lot of Democrats did, and if he did as well, then he’s stuck on that issue.

Also...did you know that JBE voted for more Jindal Administration promoted budget bills than lots of other Republicans? How does he respond to that if Jindal was so fiscally irresponsible?

I’ve got no love for Bobby Jindal’s political games, but JBE helped him in quite a bit of those games, probably to help keep his family political dynasty going. Selfish and not “honor code”.

What am I lying about ?

I think so but there’s a lot of partisan voters who refuse to vote for anyone that doesn’t have the ‘R’ next to the name

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He’s also heavily exaggerated Jindal’s mess and increased taxes at a meteoric pace to create a budget surplus and still did literally nothing to work on fixing the broken infrastructure that has been neglected by past state leaders.

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FIFY

I can assure u I am more informed than u are, so I don’t worship the Republican Party like people here do , or some do, I was once a tribal Republican , no longer . The Bush and Jindal type neocons cured me of that

He did not say football would be cancelled that is a blatant lie