LA-GOV: "Shame on you, Bobby Jindal!"
By Vladimir Posted in 2007 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Lynn McNiece of Slidell is some kind of p.o.'d at Bobby Jindal. So p.o.'d, in fact that she volunteered to make the following TV spot for Democrat Candidate Walter Boasso:
One is left with the impression that Jindal, the then-twenty-something whiz kid Secretary of Health and Hospitals, showed up and bodily removed Ms. McNiece's brother from his nursing home.
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Jindal did oversee reform of the Department, turning a $400 million deficit into a $220 million surplus. Some would say that he saved the State's antiquated and wasteful indigent health care system.
As Department Secretary, Bobby Jindal was named as defendant in the Federal suit that overturned the results of two administrative hearings which resulted in the late Mr. McNiece's predicament.
In Boasso's world, the judgment means that the federal judge says Bobby Jindal "broke the law".
The Baton Rouge Advocate's story on the exchange of ads is here:
Jindal said, “The ad calls me heartless. It’s a direct attack on my character,” he said.
Jindal said he did not know about the McNiece lawsuit until the commercial began airing.
“It sounds to me like this was a sad case,” Jindal said. “There are a lot of sad cases.”
How true. Walter Boasso is a sad case.
For Bobby's media response, check out these spots:
vlad,
What's the secret code here, the "Corruption Crowd" alluded to?
There are so many thieves in politics in Louisiana, it's hard to figure out who the specific ones mentioned in this ad are.
By the way, how are the old line line Democrats like Livingston playing this race?
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Proud member of the Barry Goldwater wing of the party !
... = Defenders of the Status Quo. Party backscratchers, in both parties. That covers a lot of territory, as you point out.
Jindal will come in, first crack out of the box, for ethics reform. You can bet there will be plenty of resistance in the Legislature, esp. the Senate.
Term limits in the Legislature and a large Jindal margin of victory should give Bobby the upper hand. For a while, anyway.
I assume you mean old line Repubs like Bob Livingston. As far as I know, he's a permanent Washingtonian now, not a factor in state politics. But "old line" anything is threatened by Bobby.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. - David St. Hubbins
... had Jindall up by 40 points (51%-11%) over Walter Boasso. [1] And Boasso was the leading competitor. That, and the fact that a large portion of the Louisiana Democratic Party's base now lives in Texas, California, Arkansas, and Tennessee, means that Bobby Jindal probably doesn't have a whole lot to worry about.
[1] http://www.lapolitics.com/
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Disraeli
That should be the goal now.
This election could be over within a month (Oct 20), with a perceived mandate and a host of new legislators (thanks to term limits). With sufficient political momentum, Bobby could get some meaningful change enacted.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. - David St. Hubbins
The Louisiana Dems are going for a Schiavo angle here. It probably won't work, at least in the long term.
attack against these slime. They deserve to have their political and personal lives utterly destroyed.
Go Bobby Go!
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