Is the advocate a newspaper or JBE’s reelection campaign spokesperson?

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They are fondling JBE’s testicles more than CNN fondled HRC’s testicles in 2016.

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Its well known that the Governor’s office tells the Advocate what to print. it’s ridiculous.

Tyler Bridges and Stephanie Grace are the two biggest offenders at that paper. They're JBE spokespeople.

Grace actually is obsessed as hell with Bobby Jindal and writes quite a few columns about him. Jindal is a has been and a political nobody and she's still writing about him.

It’s always been a liberal rag

Yeah, it’s terrible

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yeah, he must have touched her in the wrong spot or something. It's weird.

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She really doesn't have a clue how much Louisiana republicans hate Jindal. They're the ones that ended his political career. Jindal would've lost his arse in the first round if he could've run for a third term.

Oh and frick Jindal for doing everything he could to make sure David Vitter didn't win even if it mean being cool with a tax and spend liberal being his successor.

Jindal did everything he could, in pursuit of an extreme personal hatred, to wreck Vitter’s 2015 campaign. He pulled out of the presidential race in late 2015 just in time to steal Vitter’s headlines and he funded and put resources behind Scott Angelle’s sad-sack, hopeless and destructive 2015 race against Vitter. Angelle was so shameless in his attempts to drag Vitter down that he actually went on statewide TV selling as truth a crazy left-wing blog post accusing Vitter of killing a hooker on a houseboat in Biloxi some 12 years ago; Jindal never repudiated that sleaze.

Jindal tore apart unity amongst Louisiana republicans with his stupid feud with Vitter when he should've been the bigger man and done everything he could to make sure Louisiana has capable conservative leadership on the 4th floor even if it was someone he personally detested.

It wasn't enough for Jindal that he abandoned Louisiana for a stupid dead in the water presidential run, he also had to frick up the Governor's race as well.

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She really doesn't have a clue how much Louisiana republicans hate Jindal.

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Oh she very much does. That's WHY she keeps bringing it up.

Oh and I don't fault her. Her job is to be the liberal columnist. And for a liberal columnist, I think she is pretty good. Sure better than whoever is supposed to be the conservative columnist. Bleah.

The overall slant of the regular news articles is the real problem. They repeatable talk about how Jindal ravaged higher education and healthcare and neither of which is true.

Higher edu took a ~6% cut. Tuition did go up, but still lower than the southern average. And STATE spending on healthcare actually INCREASED to make up for a lower federal reimbursement rate.

Now he did stuff the budget full of one time money way beyond what was sustainable. That is a fair criticism. But you can't have it both ways. If he stuffed the budget with one-time money it was to AVOID massive cuts.

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he writes a regular column in The Wall Street Journal and has become a semiregular Twitter user, he mostly opines about national issues, not his home-state politics of the day.

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Jindal does himself a favor avoiding talking about Louisiana politics, he lost that high privilege of doing that in a respectable fashion when he abandoned Louisiana for a pie in the sky bullshite Presidential run.

It would be like deadbeat parents suddenly being concerned about the kids that they continually neglect.

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Oh she very much does. That's WHY she keeps bringing it up.

Oh and I don't fault her. Her job is to be the liberal columnist. And for a liberal columnist, I think she is pretty good.

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She is not Vox or Slate level bad, but she is still pretty bad even for a liberal columnist.

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Sure better than whoever is supposed to be the conservative columnist. Bleah.

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Agreed, but only because I do not believe there is one real conservative or republican that works at that organization.

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The overall slant of the regular news articles is the real problem. They repeatable talk about how Jindal ravaged higher education and healthcare and neither of which is true.

Higher edu took a ~6% cut. Tuition did go up, but still lower than the southern average. And STATE spending on healthcare actually INCREASED to make up for a lower federal reimbursement rate.

Now he did stuff the budget full of one time money way beyond what was sustainable. That is a fair criticism. But you can't have it both ways. If he stuffed the budget with one-time money it was to AVOID massive cuts.

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The criticism might have been fair, but what else was the man going to do? The real factors that need to be cut and/or reformed are currently untouchable. The legislature does not have the chest to do any major overhauls, and the conditions that got JBE's first tax increase passed did not exist until the very end of Jindal's terms and the political will to pass the tax increase only existed because of scare tactics and lies. Jindal's use of one time money might not have been the best solution, but it was the only solution that was politically and realistically available to him at the time.

The biggest thing that the members of the Louisiana media do not understand is that Louisiana is more than just the state's budget. In 2014, the business climate in Louisiana was ranked in the top half of US states, one publication even ranked it #1, but five years later Louisiana is ranked in the 40s. That has caused the state to miss opportunities for projects that would have continued to expand the economy and diversify the economy too. JBE's policies (along with a rebound in oil prices) might have stabilized the budget of the state government, but the state would have been in a much better position if a republican was governor and had kept Louisiana in the top half of business climates because it could have taken much more advantage of the Trump economy than it has.

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Edwards needs Bobby Jindal or he’s toast. He needs a bogey man, someone to blame, and even though he’s been governor for over three years except for a big increase in Medicaid and in taxes, there’s nothing Edwards can point to in his term.

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Which is why Bobby Jindal needs to keep his mouth shut and not tell us who he's voting for or what his opinion on JBE really is especially when he's the same guy who did everything he could to make sure Vitter lost to JBE.

He lost the privilege to respectfully opine on Louisiana politics when he abandoned this state as its Governor.