October 31, 2014
By Steve Benen
Looking back at the last year (click here) or so, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) effort to raise his national profile has run into occasional pitfalls. The far-right governor, for example, has suggested Americans have a guaranteed right under the First Amendment to appear on reality-television shows, while also refusing to say whether he believes in modern biology.
Reality TV is under attack? Since when? Reality TV is best defined by You Tube. I think it is well established reality tv is part of the landscape of the USA. Jindal only came to this reality recently?
Modern biology is a wedge issue? Really? There is no such thing as modern biology. Biology is what occurred when his mother gave birth to him. If Jindal has ever taken antibiotics it was biology that allowed it to cure his malady.
By Steve Benen
Looking back at the last year (click here) or so, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) effort to raise his national profile has run into occasional pitfalls. The far-right governor, for example, has suggested Americans have a guaranteed right under the First Amendment to appear on reality-television shows, while also refusing to say whether he believes in modern biology.
Reality TV is under attack? Since when? Reality TV is best defined by You Tube. I think it is well established reality tv is part of the landscape of the USA. Jindal only came to this reality recently?
Modern biology is a wedge issue? Really? There is no such thing as modern biology. Biology is what occurred when his mother gave birth to him. If Jindal has ever taken antibiotics it was biology that allowed it to cure his malady.
The Louisiana Republican has filed a federal lawsuit in opposition to an education policy he recently endorsed;
Jindal has a lot more to worry about in Louisiana than an education policy. There are huge swaths of education infrastructure he hasn't rebuilt yet.
New Orleans continues to have a very high unemployment rate. In August 2014 the sustained rate is 7.8%. That is outrageous. The rest of the state has the same rate as the USA at 5.8%. But, New Orleans has sustained rates as high as 10.3% in 2010. This is no longer a Katrina problem, this is a structural employment problem in Louisiana and Jindal has done absolutely nothing for the citizens of New Orleans.
The city of New Orleans is ranked #1 in the entire country for poverty rates among it's residents. It also ranks #1 in the USA for residents born in the place of their birth. In other words, the resident of New Orleans spend their entire life in poverty and never leave there.
New Orleans ranks 3rd in the country for lowest median income, it ranks second for single parent households and 3rd in workforce unemployment.
August 29, 2013
...A government report on evacuees (click here) pointed out that African-American residents were less likely to return to their homes than whites; 54 percent of African-American evacuees returned, compared with 82 percent of white evacuees....
The reason evacuees have not returned to New Orleans is because there is no housing. Katrina happened 9 nears ago and there is still vasts areas of the city abandoned.
If Jindal wants the attention of the country he needs to do his job. There have been billions upon billions of federal dollars sent to Louisiana for reconstruction in New Orleans and the largest Medicaid roles in the country. No matter what the people of the USA have tried to revitalized New Orleans and Louisiana it never happens. Bobby Jindal is not a good governor and never has been.
His answer to the BP Deep Horizon oil explosion and disaster was to block lawsuits of the petroleum industry. Jindal is in the back pocket of Big Oil and the people of Louisiana who lost everything is going to have to find a way to get by because nothing is coming their way compliments of their governor.
June 6, 2014
Rejecting the advice (click here) of his own attorney general and dozens of legal scholars, Louisiana governor and potential presidential contender Bobby Jindal effectively blocked a New Orleans-area levee board from suing oil and gas companies for allegedly destroying the state’s coasts – and in so doing, may have also derailed state and local claims against BP for damages and tax revenue lost following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill....
Jindal has time for CPAC, but, no time to be governor. According to Jindal, the BP oil spill of 2010 never happened. Jindal has failed New Orleans, the teachers of Louisiana and the Louisiana gulf coast and fisheries. The reason the Jindal is still in office is because the petroleum industry buys the Office of Governor for him every election year.
The facts are obvious and well documented...
THROW BOBBY JINDAL OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE!
Jindal has a lot more to worry about in Louisiana than an education policy. There are huge swaths of education infrastructure he hasn't rebuilt yet.
..."There is no question that the OPSB (click here) was authorized to lay off over 7,000 employees" after the state takeover, Victory wrote. The appeals court found the School Board should have created a recall list and systematically used it to hire back employees, as per teacher tenure laws of the time.
But the state Supreme Court decided that "the Teacher Tenure Laws did not envision, nor provide for, the circumstance where a massive hurricane wipes out an entire school district, resulting in the elimination of the vast majority of teaching positions in that district. It would defy logic to find the OPSB liable for a due process violation where jobs were simply not available."
The School Board currently runs only six schools....
The School Board currently runs only six schools....
There were 7000 employees within the Louisiana education infrastructure laid off following Katrina including a majority of the teachers in the effected districts. To date that education infrastructure has not been replace and there are no plans in doing so.
Louisiana received huge amounts of funding following Katrina over multiple years and in every applicable bill voted for by Senator Landreau thereafter. WHERE IS THE MONEY? Why hasn't there been a priority to return education infrastructure to children? What is being done to employee those citizens in Louisiana to provide new employment? NOTHING? Bobby Jindal has not nothing to employee these people and prioritize the children of Louisiana?
New Orleans continues to have a very high unemployment rate. In August 2014 the sustained rate is 7.8%. That is outrageous. The rest of the state has the same rate as the USA at 5.8%. But, New Orleans has sustained rates as high as 10.3% in 2010. This is no longer a Katrina problem, this is a structural employment problem in Louisiana and Jindal has done absolutely nothing for the citizens of New Orleans.The city of New Orleans is ranked #1 in the entire country for poverty rates among it's residents. It also ranks #1 in the USA for residents born in the place of their birth. In other words, the resident of New Orleans spend their entire life in poverty and never leave there.
New Orleans ranks 3rd in the country for lowest median income, it ranks second for single parent households and 3rd in workforce unemployment.
...A government report on evacuees (click here) pointed out that African-American residents were less likely to return to their homes than whites; 54 percent of African-American evacuees returned, compared with 82 percent of white evacuees....
The reason evacuees have not returned to New Orleans is because there is no housing. Katrina happened 9 nears ago and there is still vasts areas of the city abandoned.
If Jindal wants the attention of the country he needs to do his job. There have been billions upon billions of federal dollars sent to Louisiana for reconstruction in New Orleans and the largest Medicaid roles in the country. No matter what the people of the USA have tried to revitalized New Orleans and Louisiana it never happens. Bobby Jindal is not a good governor and never has been.
His answer to the BP Deep Horizon oil explosion and disaster was to block lawsuits of the petroleum industry. Jindal is in the back pocket of Big Oil and the people of Louisiana who lost everything is going to have to find a way to get by because nothing is coming their way compliments of their governor.
Rejecting the advice (click here) of his own attorney general and dozens of legal scholars, Louisiana governor and potential presidential contender Bobby Jindal effectively blocked a New Orleans-area levee board from suing oil and gas companies for allegedly destroying the state’s coasts – and in so doing, may have also derailed state and local claims against BP for damages and tax revenue lost following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill....
Jindal has time for CPAC, but, no time to be governor. According to Jindal, the BP oil spill of 2010 never happened. Jindal has failed New Orleans, the teachers of Louisiana and the Louisiana gulf coast and fisheries. The reason the Jindal is still in office is because the petroleum industry buys the Office of Governor for him every election year.
The facts are obvious and well documented...
THROW BOBBY JINDAL OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE!
