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re: The curious case of Bobby Jindal...
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:18 pm to RemouladeSawce
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:18 pm to RemouladeSawce
I really offended people on here back in 16 when they were talking about his presidential prospects and I kept laughing at them
Rand Paul 16
Rand Paul 16
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Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:19 pm to DiamondDog
I remember early on in 2015 Trump dismissing him as a "lightweight governor"
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:19 pm to Indefatigable
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2003 I guess.
He was completely phoning it in his last couple of years, such that I’d assert Jindal’s first couple was a bit better.
Foster’s first term was likely the only truly functional La Governor term of my lifetime, though.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:21 pm to OWLFAN86
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I really offended people on here back in 16 when they were talking about his presidential prospects and I kept laughing at them
I wasn’t aware of hardly anyone in the state that was doing anything but eye rolling that. I’m not sure who you’re referencing.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:24 pm to Indefatigable
His second term was garbage. I wonder if we would have ended up with JBE if he had a better second term?
ETA: Vitter was garbage, but i wonder if someone else may have emerged.
ETA: Vitter was garbage, but i wonder if someone else may have emerged.
This post was edited on 10/30/24 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:27 pm to LSUSkip
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Vitter was garbage, but i wonder if someone else may have emerged.
Disagreed, Vitter had no further political aspiration and could have done unpopular things that this state sorely needs done.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:28 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:he still posts here
I’m not sure who you’re referencing.
I don't want to be a bully
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:40 pm to TJG210
Remember, it was Vitter who got us term limits when he was in the legislature. Vitter would have been a transformational governor for Louisiana. That’s why the factions united against him.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:45 pm to Riverside
Simple, he put his political ambitious above doing the right thing at the end of his second term.
But that said, he would make a better senator than Cassidy.
But that said, he would make a better senator than Cassidy.
This post was edited on 10/30/24 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 10/30/24 at 10:55 pm to DiamondDog
There was an article recently naming Jindal as a candidate for DHHS secretary under Trump.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 11:01 pm to OWLFAN86
bullshite
Posted on 10/30/24 at 11:01 pm to TJG210
He ran a shite campaign. I honestly still wonder if he even actually wanted to be governor.
Posted on 10/30/24 at 11:23 pm to DiamondDog
Hurricane mode Bobby Jindal was a sight to behold. His pressers during the run up to one were fire hoses of information.
He could tell you how many bags of ice were left in the coolers at Dago's in Lydia, whether it was block or cube and when they would be re-stocking.
He was like Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, "Jindal needed someone to throw hurricanes at him the rest of his life."
He could tell you how many bags of ice were left in the coolers at Dago's in Lydia, whether it was block or cube and when they would be re-stocking.
He was like Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, "Jindal needed someone to throw hurricanes at him the rest of his life."
Posted on 10/31/24 at 12:03 am to LSUSkip
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Vitter was garbage, but i wonder if someone else may have emerged.
Louisiana, and specifically the LAGOP would never allow anyone "better" than Vitter to emerge.
As I said before, our electorate is too stupid for that. The only people allowed to gain statewide office in Louisiana are South Louisiana good ole boys that have their tentacles in the existing web of the LAGOP like fat loser Billy Nungesser, etc
This post was edited on 10/31/24 at 12:03 am
Posted on 10/31/24 at 12:05 am to DiamondDog
He probably got rich off our backs. I’d retire and move out of the limelight too.
Posted on 10/31/24 at 12:08 am to DiamondDog
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The curious case of Bobby Jindal...
Cut Taxes
FAIL
Cut Taxes, Cut Spending
WIN
Posted on 10/31/24 at 12:12 am to Y.A. Tittle
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And he’s still the best governor the state has had in 25 years.
I was about to say Mike Foster until my old arse did the math.
Ad far as Bobby Jindal goes, IMO he was always concerned about advancing his political career. He didn’t have the patience to wait it out and now because of that the only time I see him is on some ad on Twitter/X.
Posted on 10/31/24 at 12:15 am to LSUSkip
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He ran a shite campaign
I think it was a sense of complacency and the Jefferson parish “republicans” apparently didn’t like him too much.
Posted on 10/31/24 at 8:39 am to Seldom Seen
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He tried to actually cut spending that's why he was the best and why he's hated.
Not exactly. He half-assed repealed Stelly. Stelly swapped sales taxes on drugs, food and utilities with a higher income tax. Jindal repealed only the higher income tax part, creating an ongoing revenue shortfall for the state. With this, he painted himself into a corner by tying himself to Grover Nordquist's "no taxes" group so tightly that he tried to cover the shortfalls with Katrina money, raiding various agency funds (like State Park's $40M maintenance fund) and then BP money. It was only once those other revenue avenues closed off that he started freezing pay raises and cutting jobs... selectively. He had one employee (unclassified) who "quit" one day, then was hired back the very next day at a nice salary increase (so he could technically claim none of his people got raises).
2007-2008 (Blanco's last year)
$32B budget, $15B from feds. LINK
~92k employees LINK
2008-2009 (Jindal's first year)
$33B budget, $14.9B from feds. LINK
~92k employees LINK
2009-2010
$33B budget, $14.7 from feds. LINK
~95k employees LINK
2010-2011
$30B budget, $11.5B from feds. LINK
~80k employees LINK
2011-2012
$29.9B budget, $11B from feds. LINK
~77k employees LINK
2012-2013
$30B budget, $11B from feds. LINK
~74k employees LINK
2013-2014
$28.7B budget, $10B from feds. LINK
~71k employees LINK
2014-2015
$29B budget, $10B from feds. LINK
~69k employees LINK
2015-2016
$28B budget, $9.9B from feds. LINK
~68.9k employees LINK
In his last year, math caught up to him and he ended up "balancing" the budget by creating legalized money laundering in the implementation of the SAVE Act. For those not familiar, state education was facing massive cuts (because so much of the budget is locked behind amendments) so Bobby came up (and got passed) the idea that the Board of Regents (BoR) would assess a fee of ever college student to cover educational costs. BUT... instead of the students paying that fee, the State would issue a tax credit to the BoR in the amount of the fee for each student. The BoR is not a tax-paying entity, sooo...
This post was edited on 10/31/24 at 8:53 am
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