re: Jindal would be a better candidate for Governor than anyone currently being pitched

We had 8 years of Where in the World is Bobby Jindal and as a state, we were worse off for it.

I’ll take a gamble on someone else instead of a Piyush rerun, thanks.

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He shrank the budget and state government.

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THIS. Louisiana government is still bloated, but his hiring freeze and consolidation of redundant departments did wonders for this backwards arse state. I don't know a single civil servant that likes Jindal, which improves his standing in my mind.

I hate what Jindal was, but recognize what he could have and should have been. Ron DeSantis should look to Jindal as what not to do when you are the presumptive future of the Republican party.

Jindal was a smart guy who wasn’t smart enough to not get hoodwinked by stupid people.

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He shrank the budget and state government. He modernized the IT of every agency and required that they create web based platforms for their services. He did all of this without ever raising taxes.

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I think you've been reading Bobby's press releases and not looking at what he really did.

He played shell games with money, raided trust funds, and moved assets to make it "look Like" he balanced the budget.

I know first hand he moved staff from the governor's payroll to other state agencies and then put out a press release that he had "reduced the governor's staff" - when in fact no staff was reduced - he just forced them onto another state agencies payroll.

The IT consolidation - while a good idea - has only created a new behemoth state agency that isn't really beholden to the individual agencies it is supposed to service.

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He shrank the budget and state government.

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First, this is something BigJim, if he's around, is much more qualified to answer. However, just my quick looking on the DOA website for the FY State Budgets from FY '08-09 budget to '15-16 budget, there's just simply more a direct between available Federal Funds and Total Appropriated/Enacted budget than Jindal's Administration actually shrinking the state portion of the budget.

In Billions of Dollars, the first number is Federal Funds, second total budget:

14.9; 29.7
14.7; 28.9
11.5; 25.4
11.1; 25.3
11.3; 25.6
10.3; 25.4
10.0; 25.5
9.9; 25.0

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The only people who didn’t like Jindal were the ones milking the clock at a state agency for 20 plus years or getting a fat kickback in the form of some contract.

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And that is definitely 100% false.

Personally, I liked Jindal himself as a person (or wanted to), but I believe his tight inner-circle is what caused the most harm to his tenue and ability to truly govern. The convinced him to govern merely in a manner of trying to be able to check off (or have the appearance of checking off) boxes to make him desirable to be the 2016 GOP Presidential nominee. We all know how that played out.

April fools?

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You didn’t mention who you thought was a better possibility.

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Of the names being thrown around as possible candidates for next year, the following I believe COULD BE better Governors for Louisiana than Bobby Jindal was:

John Schroder
Garrett Graves
Sharon Hewitt

I left out Kennedy, because he ain't leaving Washington D.C. now.

Now sure, any of those above three could walk into office and things happen where they end up being no better, or even worse, than Jindal's tenure overall, and I'm giving my opinion based on what I think the above could be vs. what we already experienced the Jindal Administration to have been.

Jindal crushed the soul of every conservative in this state.

He sold us all out.

I think it's worse to have potential and piss it away, then to have no potential at all.

Just curious - could he even run? I know you can't technically serve more than 2 consecutively, and he could go the EWE route and sit out one term. But did they close that loophole?