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What he said

When running for governor in 2007 Bobby Jindal made the following statement in his campaign brochure entitled “Ethics Reform: Ending Corruption”:

“Ensure cabinet secretaries, all appointed officials, and staff are unquestionably ethical, exceptionally talented, and committed to the responsibility of public service.

I will have a high standard for performance and a zero-tolerance for ethical lapses by my administrative appointments.”

—- Bobby Jindal

What he did

According to the story in Friday’s Baton Rouge paper ( here) one of Jindal’s hand-picked members of the state Pardon Board is being questioned by the Heh, Heh, Heh, Ethics Board (A majority of which were appointed by Jindal.) about ethical improprieties.   Zero-tolerance?

An interesting aside:  Jindal could not be reached for comment by cell phone because he was in Sabine Parish.  They don’t have cell service in Sabine Parish?  What is our absentee governor doing in a place in which he cannot communicate with the Capitol?

To quote Bobby Jindal: “It’s time to match action to our rhetoric.”

It’s time to hold Bobby accountable.

C.B.

1 CB 2:21 am

If bribing Foster Farms to purchase the defunct Pilgrims Pride chicken procession plant in Farmerville in order to save jobs is so important, why do Bobby Jindal and his ethically-challenged head of economic development Stephen Moret want to make it so difficult?

Jindal or more appropriately “Governor Timmy Teepell” and Moret insist on taking the money from the state slush fund known as the “Mega-Project Development Fund.”

To do so requires the legislature to change the law setting forth the criteria.  All the leges are not enamored with the idea. So why have the fight?

There is another fund totally controlled by Jindal and Moret with no legal restrictions which can be used for job retention.  See law here.

The Rapid Response Fund currently has almost $55 Million in it. To give that money to Foster Farms requires no change in the law. All that is necessary is for Moret and Jindal to sign off on the deal.

Which begs the question of why they want to go through all the trouble of getting the leges to change the law when all Jindal and Moret have to do is write a check?

I guess we’ll never know since none of the leges seem inclined to question authority.

C.B.

1 CB 8:21 am

Lemming

In a recent column ( here) nationally-syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin wrote:

Deliberation in Washington is dead. We don’t have legislators. We have lemmings.

That is insulting!

I am compelled to defend the Lemming.

In order to do so, I had the Crack Mullet Research Team do some in depth research to distinguish Lemmings from leges.

Compare and contrast

Lemmings are small harmless rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic.

Leges are very large pests and are never found near the Arctic.

Lemmings are herbivorous, who feed mostly on leaves and shoots, grasses, roots and bulbs.

Leges feed mostly mostly on steaks, lobsters and Caesar salads.

Lemmings forage for themselves.

Leges forage for “sponsors” (lobbyists and others) who will pay for their meals.

Myth

There is a belief that Lemmings are dumb creatures that follow each other without reason until they fall off a cliff into the ocean and die.

Lemmings will migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. On occasion large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They will stop until the urge to press on causes them to jump off the cliff and start swimming, sometimes to exhaustion and death.

Leges, for no explainable reason, blindly follow Pied Pipers like Bobby Jindal.

Lemmings do what they do for the preservation of their specie.

Leges do what they do for their own sake.

Citizens are forced to migrate because of the failures of the leges.

Leges don’t migrate; they help push off the cliff others of their specie to economic death.

Give the gentle lemmings a break.

They are certainly not leges.

C.B.

1 CB 7:35 am