With Blanco flailing at windmills here...

Just because you've been jaded by the failures of the past, don't project those same failures on those of us who have not been a part, parcel, or a member of the failures themselves....

You gave up hope, that doesn't mean I-or anyone else-has to.

 

Actually TE, I haven't given up hope but I will if the fraud that is Jindal is perpetrated on the public. While Jindal's desires have a good sound, rest assured that should he be our next governor that you too will become a part of the same failures of the past.

 

So we'd be better off with "That Bucket Woman"? (For the non -PBS viewers, that's a reference to Hyacinthe Bucket of the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances".)

 

SF,

Seems to me you would want to support a local. While I believe she'll do more for the State than Jindal, I know she will do more for Acadiana than he will. JMO.

 

Why would it seem to you that he would support a local?

The same "seeming" that says that if you lived next door to David Duke, or Edwin Edwards, or Cleo Fields, that you'd support any of those candidates?

Geographical proximity and the part it plays in this election is null and void, save for the thought that you need to be a citizen of this state to vote. I live closer to Jindal, so that means my support should go that way?

What kind of thought is it that you would elect someone to represent the entire state based on how she'd treat your particular geographic area. Way to be fair-minded, there, chump. Screw the people in Big Raggedy, Funroe, Dallas East (err...I mean Shreveport), and Nawlins...As long as your particular area in Louisiana gets their's, screw everyone else, right?

What a cockamamey excuse for a reason to vote for a candidate, if ever I heard one!

You're right about her doing more for Acadiana, too...Just go ask what her husband's day job is...

He's a high ranked VP at UL-L, and that's exactly where more of this state's money would go if elected...and I assure you that it would come at a detriment to LSU...It's also a detriment to the state's higher education system, because USL-L is a good institution, but doesn't need any more help than it currently already receives.

We've got one of the greatest sculptors of all time. Rodin-who is responsible for "The Thinking Man" statue, and his work is on loan here in Louisiana.

Where is it at? In the capital of Baton Rouge? In the state's most populous city, where it could only add to the reasons to take a trip to New Orleans for tourism?

No, it's at the University of Lafayette's fricking museum...Kathy's husband's employer...

Who arranged and worked so hard to get this art showing here in the state in the first place? Kathy Blanco...Such fealty is ridiculous...

When the next autoplant or aerospace engineering firm, or a business moving from California because of it's own quagmire comes calling, I don't want our Governor to look and sound exactly like every other Governor who's come before them, which is what we'll get if Blanco is elected. I don't want someone who can offer the company's leadership and ownership groups that, "she can make things easier on them come appropriations time in the Legislature, because she knows how to 'grease the palms' of the powers that be."

The leadership of the Legislature my ass! DeWitt's in trouble for the hookers, for the Indian Casino deal (his buddy embroiled in the stripper/hooker case was in on the land deal the Jena band of Choctaw's brokered), and for the recent bequeathing of a 49% interest in the New Orleans race track. If ever there were a man in no position to talk about power and leadership, it's the Speaker of the House, Mr. Charlie DeWitt.

If you knew anything about the Legislature, you'd know that Taylor Townsend and Peppi Bruneau are the up and comers, though Bruneau's been a wily legislator for a long time. Square yourself away with those men, and you won't find many potholes.

Hainkel is an effective politician because he's been there so long and he knows what he's doing. He's been a thorn in the side of any governor that wants to try to direct his own agenda. Hell, Hainkel himself ran for Governor at first, but then magically agreed to sit on the sidelines...Perhaps a truce already forming.

We want someone to appeal to economic development, corporations that can improve both infrasctructure and the relative tax base, and we want someone who will prove to help remove the shackles of the inept administrations and laws that have held this state down for far too long.

I want someone who can go to those big company's and high level CEO's and tell them, "I'm here because the people of Louisiana want companies like you here. Let me tell you what we can do, and then let me know what you want, and let's see if we can make this thing work."

I don't want someone who's going to tell them up front how much they're going to have to pay to whom to get their foot in the door, ala a Kathy Babineaux Blanco...

I want someone who is willing to offer this state more than just a god-d@mned golf trail, and claims she created 21,000 jobs in the hospitality industry when they really came off the backs of the gambling (or should I say gaming) industry!

Blanco claims she's an economic development expert...She claims tourism increased by 38% during her tenure...

That's great, but in reality, tourism during the time she was in office increased 26% nationally, so I guess that means-if anything-she was merely responsible for a 12% bump up.

Give me a break.

 

Who has endorsed Bobby Jindal.

JD, the "Jindal will make Louisiana a theocracy" argument is absurd, and you know it.

 

If Louisiana is going to be a theocracy do you think I can get away with buying my girlfriend a burka for Christmas?

 

Your ridiculous blathering about how you claim that Jindal claims he performed a medical miracle is so old, JD, and you know it.

The US GOVERNMENT mandated a billion dollars worth of cuts. Please, either refute this, or do us all a favor and shut up about it.

Jindal not only implemented the cuts and did so in a timely manner, he cut the state employment rolls to do so, chased down MILLIONS in fraudulent and overcharged claims, when his predecessor didn't do squat. You going to say something about that?

Next, I already mentioned that Bruneau's been a wily legislator for a long time, but what I meant was that he's building a power base that's likely going to vault him from the Speaker Pro Tem to Speaker of the House, sir. Your ass, indeed.

Once again, back up your claims of how Bobby Jindal has kissed Pat Robertson's ass. Please, show us where they've spoken to each other. Show us. Don't just say his religious faith is proof enough.

As much as you try to twist things into a left/right debate, no wonder that you're trying to twist this, too?

You've daisy chained together more ludicrous information than I care to recite, but here are some highlights...

Since Jindal is of Indiand descent, and he's a converted Catholic and proud of his faith, he must lean towards religious fanatacism because he espouses his beliefs system based on his faith...

Bobby Jindal was appointed Secretary of DHH and cut a billion dollars from the budget, bringing it from in the red to in the black, and tracked down millions of dollars in fraudlent overpayments to mental institutions and psychiatrists who overcharged the state. He also improved access to healthcare to the elderly, and improved the immunization rates of our children at the same time, reaching and helping the two most at risk portions of our society.

This must mean that he's crowing about doing something that he actually didn't. The budget cuts and the increase in access, and the millions he chased down are actually just "fuzzy math" that he uses to make us think he's a genius...

You would support Ray Nagin, but you would not support the candidate who Ray Nagin supports.

You would support John Breaux and his party, but not the man John Breaux put in charge of a NONPARTISAN comission designed to point out areas for change and methods to facilitate it.

You would support those that support Bobby Jindal, but you would not support Bobby Jindal.

What it all boils down to, JD, is that you're the dumbest smart guy I've ever met...