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re: Jindal would be a better candidate for Governor than anyone currently being pitched
Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:46 am to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:46 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Jindal was a smart guy who wasn’t smart enough to not get hoodwinked by stupid people.
That dude had the tiger by the tail. Then he did this...
and the national GOP was like:
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:49 am to Y.A. Tittle
Jindal was horrible, but you are sadly correct.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:50 am to blueboxer1119
quote:West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce lunch on April 13th.
Im dying to ask him questions publicly. If that opportunity ever presents itself, I will be there and it will get interesting.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:58 am to Y.A. Tittle
I'd vote for Jindal over Bill "The Traitor" Cassidy any day and all day.
Frankly, if it comes down to Cassidy and a dirty dem, I probably won't vote at all for Governor. Cassidy can burn in hell.
Frankly, if it comes down to Cassidy and a dirty dem, I probably won't vote at all for Governor. Cassidy can burn in hell.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:00 am to michael corleone
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The hate for Jindal is unreal.
I liked Jindal. He did a great job, but it was mostly unsung stuff. Then he started governing to win national appeal. After that, as others have pointed out, he was all show.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:03 am to LSUFanHouston
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LSUFanHouston
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Jindal crushed the soul of every conservative in this state.
He sold us all out.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:17 am to Y.A. Tittle
What's funny?
I lived in LA for his second term.
I moved back to LA because of his first term.
He sold out.
I lived in LA for his second term.
I moved back to LA because of his first term.
He sold out.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:29 am to thermal9221
Riddle me this - name one that is not a full of shite slime ball politician.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:52 am to PUB
He came off like a televangelist type of fake to me.
I prefer the edwin edwards style of crooked personality.
I prefer the edwin edwards style of crooked personality.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:53 am to JudgeHolden
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Would you like to comment on the accounting games he used to “balance” the budget?
Well answer this question first why is a government agency sitting on a pile of money and not spending it for its intended purpose.
If an government agency has extra funds at the end of the year, unless they have to save for a future capital expense down the road, they are doing a disservice to state.
I can remember the days when it was said that every May or June, you would have agencies look at their books and see if they had any money left. If they did, they would load up on items such as office supplies and toiletries to make sure their budgets had a zero balance at the end of the year because that would ensure more funding for next year, otherwise they could get cut.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 9:53 am to Y.A. Tittle
An ex governor who is as unpopular as Heels Up’s genital warts is a nonstarter regardless of their policy positions.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:20 am to Y.A. Tittle
I never dreamed that I would visit this possibility again.
At some cook out long ago sponsored by Mike Foster ,somehow,
he tried to convince us that Boobie Jindal was the most intelligent person in the country and that one day he would be the greatest governor of Louisiana. Ok,the beer was cold and the boiled crawfish were tasty but who was this guy?
Well later Jindal got himself elected governor and right off the bat he reminded me of Buddy Roemer, who wanted to brickup the Education department and other wild ideas to make state govt. more efficient. Well Buddy pissed off a lot of state workers and Bobby did to.
At another party while Jindal was governor I met one of his middle school teachers. That teacher told us that young Bobbye would run from class to class during class changes, yep, he would run up and down the halls to his classes while the other kids would just normally walk. I wondered why? Us normal guys would try to talk to the girls.
Jindal reminds me of that Elizabeth Holmes woman , same with cassidy, something is odd about that man.
At some cook out long ago sponsored by Mike Foster ,somehow,
he tried to convince us that Boobie Jindal was the most intelligent person in the country and that one day he would be the greatest governor of Louisiana. Ok,the beer was cold and the boiled crawfish were tasty but who was this guy?
Well later Jindal got himself elected governor and right off the bat he reminded me of Buddy Roemer, who wanted to brickup the Education department and other wild ideas to make state govt. more efficient. Well Buddy pissed off a lot of state workers and Bobby did to.
At another party while Jindal was governor I met one of his middle school teachers. That teacher told us that young Bobbye would run from class to class during class changes, yep, he would run up and down the halls to his classes while the other kids would just normally walk. I wondered why? Us normal guys would try to talk to the girls.
Jindal reminds me of that Elizabeth Holmes woman , same with cassidy, something is odd about that man.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:30 am to michael corleone
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The hate for Jindal is unreal. 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. He also did not raise taxes just to get through a few bad years of budget issues.
Louisiana "Conservatives" are only "Conservative" until someone does something "Conservative" and, then, "frick that guy!"
While JBE isn't "loved" by your rank and file Louisiana "Republican" voter, a solid 20% of them (certainly enough for a single Dem to win) would vote for him AGAIN over Vitter, Landry, Kennedy, Jindal, etc. So, frick them.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:42 am to Ace Midnight
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Vitter, Landry, Kennedy, Jindal
One of those camps really despises the other three. One of those camps, while not as public as Dardenne camp, did what it could to sabotage Vitter's chances to win in the 2015 Gubernatorial runoff.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 10:46 am to Y.A. Tittle
Mike Foster got a kid?
Posted on 4/1/22 at 11:03 am to Butch Baum
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Mike Foster got a kid?
Yeah, I don't want him as governor either, but he'd likely be preferable to Cassidy, Landry, or Landrieu, as well.
Hell, a lot of people who post on this board would.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 11:13 am to Penrod
quote:100% agree
I liked Jindal. He did a great job, but it was mostly unsung stuff.
quote:
Then he started governing to win national appeal. After that, as others have pointed out, he was all show.
Everyone points to his second term, but that was really just the bill coming due for his biggest error, the tax cut.
Politically, he didn't get credit for it, as is proper because he originally opposed it. But had to take all the heat when the budget was affected. So it ticked off the left and the "right."
Policy-wise he did three things to deal with the shortfall created by the tax cut (and the recession, etc):
1. He modernized state government. This is worth a seperate post if I have time. Quickest, best example was eliminating the Charity Hospital system.
2. He cut. He cut the hell out of state jobs. But didn't eliminate many functions. Not that he didn't try; the legislature would not let him. Remember when he tried to consolidate SUNO and UNO?
3. Since #1 wasn't enough and he couldn't do #2 he used gimmicks. More and more gimmicks every year.
People focus on #3, but gloss over 1 & 2 because of his enemies (including the media) and, let's face it, he was not the most charismatic governor.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 11:22 am to Ace Midnight
Early Jindal and early EWE were a good comparison. They had all the potential in the world to put this State in the right direction. Jindal was no where near as self-serving as EWE but he was almost as disappointing.
He tried to do a lot of things to change LA for the better; especially in his first term. He should have had a Constitutional convention and changed other aspects of State government first, because he had a ton of good will and momentum. What actually happened was there was soo much Disaster Recovery money and somewhat like Trump he had all these people around him who were supposed to be Republicans, who had only recently switched parties. In his last term he allowed the narrative to go against him, but no Governor was as good as Jindal was during a disaster.
He angered all these State workers/agencies and Universities, but he couldn't wipe out all the little political fiefdoms, couldn't close colleges, and couldn't pass income tax reform. He was never going to get any of that done with Alario and his cronies still in the Legislature.
Also, the average Louisiana citizen is conservative nationally but extremely populist locally. When you are cutting spending and trying to get State agencies in line as well a reducing wasteful programs, some constituency will be upset. Jindal was not a terrible Governor as people here make him out to be. He was great in a crisis and allowed his national aspirations to cloud his last term. The current Governor has shaken us down for more taxes than we ever paid before. Increased the budget by 30% and do we have any better services? Are our schools better? Roads? What about out migration? A plan for the future? What growth in industry or otherwise can he hang his hat on? Don't even need to get into Covid and his idiocy there.
People say Jindal was terrible for LSU; but was he worse than the current Governor? Since JBE has taken over has LSU really improved? He sure passed a bunch of taxes using LSU and exploiting people's love for football to do it. LSU waists more money now than they ever have and they charge more for tuition, collect more in fees, and force kids to live on campus. While not improving in any categories when compared to schools Nationwide or in the SEC. LSU is selling their infrastructure system to Barnhard, you have Collis Temple and a civil rights attorney on the BOS who made his money by suing the State, and there are more politics involved at LSU than almost anytime since Huey Long. I definitely don't think LSU is better now than it was under Jindal.
If you compare Jindal to the long line of Governors we have had "wasted potential" sums it up. However, he was very far from terrible.
He tried to do a lot of things to change LA for the better; especially in his first term. He should have had a Constitutional convention and changed other aspects of State government first, because he had a ton of good will and momentum. What actually happened was there was soo much Disaster Recovery money and somewhat like Trump he had all these people around him who were supposed to be Republicans, who had only recently switched parties. In his last term he allowed the narrative to go against him, but no Governor was as good as Jindal was during a disaster.
He angered all these State workers/agencies and Universities, but he couldn't wipe out all the little political fiefdoms, couldn't close colleges, and couldn't pass income tax reform. He was never going to get any of that done with Alario and his cronies still in the Legislature.
Also, the average Louisiana citizen is conservative nationally but extremely populist locally. When you are cutting spending and trying to get State agencies in line as well a reducing wasteful programs, some constituency will be upset. Jindal was not a terrible Governor as people here make him out to be. He was great in a crisis and allowed his national aspirations to cloud his last term. The current Governor has shaken us down for more taxes than we ever paid before. Increased the budget by 30% and do we have any better services? Are our schools better? Roads? What about out migration? A plan for the future? What growth in industry or otherwise can he hang his hat on? Don't even need to get into Covid and his idiocy there.
People say Jindal was terrible for LSU; but was he worse than the current Governor? Since JBE has taken over has LSU really improved? He sure passed a bunch of taxes using LSU and exploiting people's love for football to do it. LSU waists more money now than they ever have and they charge more for tuition, collect more in fees, and force kids to live on campus. While not improving in any categories when compared to schools Nationwide or in the SEC. LSU is selling their infrastructure system to Barnhard, you have Collis Temple and a civil rights attorney on the BOS who made his money by suing the State, and there are more politics involved at LSU than almost anytime since Huey Long. I definitely don't think LSU is better now than it was under Jindal.
If you compare Jindal to the long line of Governors we have had "wasted potential" sums it up. However, he was very far from terrible.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 11:26 am to Tarps99
quote:
Well answer this question first why is a government agency sitting on a pile of money and not spending it for its intended purpose.
If an government agency has extra funds at the end of the year, unless they have to save for a future capital expense down the road, they are doing a disservice to state.
I can remember the days when it was said that every May or June, you would have agencies look at their books and see if they had any money left. If they did, they would load up on items such as office supplies and toiletries to make sure their budgets had a zero balance at the end of the year because that would ensure more funding for next year, otherwise they could get cut.
The entities that had excess cash, were all dedicated funds.
Now... this is proof positive that we need to get rid of / reduce these dedicated funds.
But both sides of the asile don't want to do that.
So Jindal started doing fund sweeps. That's ok in an emergency. What Jindal didn't do was actually cut NET spending.
Sure, Jindal did thinks like privatize a bunch of hospitals and the medicaid plans. While that cut the number of state employees and state spending, it also removed all of the revenue brought in by those departments.
If you have revenue of 20B and expenses of 20.5B, and you privatize functions and get revenue to 17B and expenses to 17.5B, have you actually cut spending?
That's what Jindal did.
And that was the right thing to do, of course. The state doesn't need to run those hospitals, and private medicaid is better for everyone.
But he didn't fix the budget.
What he did was sweep cash from underutilized funds and the rainy day fund (both of which have limits) but never actually cut spending.
Jindal was a huge fan of using one-time revenues for recurring spending.
So instead of investing that one-time spending in roads, bridges, paying down retirement debt, etc, we just pissed it away on annual spending that needed to be cut.
This is why history is not kind to Jindal.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 11:28 am to tiger94gop
Any other Governor would have bucked under the historical societies demands to rehab Charity hospital. Because of him, we have a top of the line University Hospital system.
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