re: Louisiana Voters: Who are you going to vote against for Governor?

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A run-off between Wilson and Landry would be incredibly disappointing, but not surprising.

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If that happens, I'll definitely vote against Wilson but I'll hold my nose when I vote...

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he was only there for the first term, which has been praised as successful. The second term is where it went to shite.

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Pretty much all of Jindal’s landmark reforms from the first term turned out to be full of sh$t, too.

Dismantling charity hospital system: just resulted in LSU handing contracts out to political patrons while poor citizens were left stranded, having to go farther to access critical care

Charter schools: roll-out was ruled unconstitutional. After many set-backs getting started, the schools have mostly failed at their mission. I’m not convinced charters aren’t a good idea, but the execution has been terrible.

Ethics: doesn’t actually stop corruption, just creates a ton of rules that are nearly impossible to follow so that anyone in government who makes too much of a fuss can be found guilty of something.

Tax reform: dubious economic growth numbers, massive budget shortfalls for years, lots of shady accounting tricks to make the budget appear balanced without technically “raising taxes”. Eliminating the state income tax was DOA.

Higher Education: punted completely on consolidation and reform. Instead, simply asked the same universities to do more with “less”. Most universities only saw reductions in the annual rate of planned budget increase, but some universities (especially UNO) were budgeted based on their post-Katrina spending, meaning they actually took a huge haircut.

JBE was worse, but Jindal was a huge wasted opportunity.

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Wilson

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Will get mid-20's to low 30's no matter what. Wags is tracking right behind that. If all the non-Landry Repubs get behind Waguespack, you screw Landry AND Wilson.

Voting for Waguespack. Landry is a cockroach.

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Was voting for Nelson.

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I really wish he had not withdrawn. He would have had my vote.

I’m voting for Schroeder

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Probably Wags because has the best chance to make the runoff of any republican not named Landry.

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That's where it gets tricky. Should I vote for who I want even though they don't have much hope, or should I vote for the republican with the best chance to win? Louisiana always fricks it up because there is more than one republican, and whenever the primary is over, the candidate that wins the primary can't move the other R votes, so we get stuck with a dipshit Democrat. If Wilson wins, I'm leaving. I love Louisiana, and I always get downvoted to oblivion when I bring up the shortcomings here, but the future is not bright here. Soon, there will be more people on Welfare and Food stamps than not. Even though those would be federal benefits, it's a microcosm of things.

Voting against the Trial Attorney gimp.

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Wilson and Lundy.

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Add Landry to the list.

Wilson is just a token appointment who is about useless as tits on a boar hog.

Lundy looks like a wore out drunk who is way in over his head.

Landry just oozes creepiness and corruption.

I am down to either voting FOR Wags or Schroder.

Wags seems to be getting a bum-rap with his association with Jindal. He seems to have a good grasp of the issues and has experience dealing with the snakes, vipers, and vermin in BR/NOLA.

Schroder seems like an honorable man and comes off as sincere. Can he navigate the corruption and rot in the Capital?

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I really wish he had not withdrawn. He would have had my vote.

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He decided to show his true colors by dropping out and supporting Landry in hopes of landing a job in his administration. What a hypocrite.