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I keep reading stories in the media about Governor Jindal’s declaring a “hiring freeze” on the Executive Branch of state government.

Has anyone ever read the Executive Order? See copy here.

It is not a “freeze on hiring.” It is simply a method, used by many governors, to make sure that the governor has total control over state patronage.

The “LIMITED hiring freeze” merely bottlenecks all hires in the Executive Branch through the office of the Commissioner of Administration.

In other words, the governor through his Commish of Administration must approve all the hires. Jindal has not stopped anyone in the Executive Branch from hiring anyone.

Please feel free to pass this information on to all the bureaucrats who are whining to the media: There is no “hiring freeze” there is only a patronage bottleneck. Just contact the Commish if you want to hire someone. The Commish can check with the governor wherever he might be speaking that day and if he approves it, an agency can hire anyone it has the funding to pay.

C.B.