re: Louisiana's Democratic party might have just imploded. Ted James Is Bailing Out.

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The tribalism that La isn’t immune from really put Republicans in a poor position. Jindal’s failure at the end of his 2nd term to even try about caring about the job he had led into a colossal mistake by Vitter in publicly advocating for tort reform as a campaign plank.

Voter apathy after 8 years of Jindal, combined with him screwing civil servants (like it or not they vote and they’re a large bloc that don’t ignore or forget sleights; real or perceived) and then Vitter pushing attorneys of all stripes into the arms of the party that promised to protect their way of life created votes swinging and a huge amount of money flowing to JBE.

Vitter showed himself to be a tactically unintelligent candidate, regardless of how good at his previous gigs in politics he was…and at the end of the day, running for office is much different than holding office and power. He completely screwed himself.

Couple that with Jay Dardenne exposing himself as being completely and utterly politically amoral-which many in both parties are-and it gave you a Democrat in the Governor’s office during one of the most meaningful 8 year stretches in our states history.

Jindal spent 8 years after Katrina doing nothing to fix our tax code, constitution or implementing serious legal reforms while enjoying a staggering electoral mandate. Which set the stage for JBE doing much-but thankfully not all-of it in a fashion not even close to resembling the ideological views of the majority of his constituents.

He also presided over one of the most disaster prone periods in our history and consequently got to dole out MULTIPLE billions of dollars and shape our state’s recovery from those disasters and consequently our future.

Nobody pays attention to the Watershed Initiative, but JBE will have created an entire framework to dole out over a Billion dollars of funding entirely via Executive Fiat. $1.2 Billion will be spent with zero true insight or influence of the Legislative Branch of our State Government.

If Louisiana Republicans are the JBE Era’s Father, then Bobby Jindal and his complete failure to enact substantive, lasting, truly legacy creating change in our State while entertaining flights of fancy of becoming President is certainly that Era’s mother. Or at the very least the midwife who birthed it.

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