Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on October 21, 2007, 12:56:33 AM
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Well, if New Orleans is the Chocolate City...
link (http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071020/NEWS01/71020013)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal, the 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, won the Louisiana governor’s race Saturday, carrying more than half the vote against 11 opponents to become the state’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction.
“Let’s give our homeland, the great state of Louisiana, a fresh start,” Jindal said to cheers and applause from a crowd that began chanting his name at his victory party.
Jindal pledged to fight corruption and rid the state of those “feeding at the public trough,” revisiting a campaign theme.
“They can either go quietly or they can go loudly, but either way, they will go,” he said, adding that he would call the Legislature into special session to address ethics reform.
Sounds good, let's see if he can pull it off.
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I hope he can!:aok
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That state needs a tall can of "Wake The **** Up!".
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Oh, that's nice. :) Good luck to him. I'm sure it will be loudly rather than quietly.
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That state needs some serious house cleaning there is no doubt about it. When I was there for over 2 months last spring / summer the adds were running on TV almost constantly and it was the opposition to Jindal running them. I never did see a Jindal add while we were there. I saw LOTS of signs on lawns and bumper stickers for him however. He had lots of support in the Lafayette area.
Isn't it amazing that the main opposition paid over $10 Mill, most out of his OWN pocket to secure a job paying less than a quarter million. You can't do that and stay solvent unless there is a lot of untraced money flowing back under the table. It just doesn't make sense to spend multiple millions to gain a job paying less than $200K.
I think it will take several administrations worth of time to get the state cleaned up. The graft and "good ol boy" operations are entrenched all the way down to the little town administrations state wide. If you have money, you can get amazing things done. If you don't have money, you'll wait a long time to see much happen.