In his speech on ethics, Governor Jindal said:
"There will be some who will work to prevent this change because they fear the unknown. They fear change.
They fear a Louisiana where what you know is more important than who you know."
I would have to disagree. Most Louisianians fear the known much more than they fear the unknown.
Excerpt from The Advocate:
The first business to benefit from state economic development aid under Gov. Bobby Jindal is run by a man whose family and businesses donated at least $135,250 to the governor’s campaign and local Republican Party causes during the past year.
Jindal introduced the donor — Gary Chouest, of Galliano — as a leader of Louisiana business in the same March 9 speech when the governor proclaimed before the Legislature that the state’s political culture had moved beyond “who you know” motivations.
Jindal used part of the state’s $1.1 billion surplus to put $10 million in a Terrebonne Parish port expansion. Jindal also gave an additional $4 million grant to the project.
The state Legislature approved both proposals earlier this month.
The taxpayer dollars help Chouest’s privately owned companies expand a state-of-the-art shipbuilding facility and to upgrade the port where the new plant is located.
h/t wesawthat
2 comments:
Is this the beginning of a pattern modeled on the example of the Bush maladministration?
Go mix yourself a Sazerac (on its way to becoming the official state cocktail), and maybe you'll feel better, Jim. That's what I'm doing.
Mimi, it is just the same old politics dressed in a new suit. God bless the people of Louisiana. We are so easily misled.
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