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Houma Courier
March 13, 2018
For example, Rodrigue painted works for both Kathleen Blanco and Bobby Jindal during their respective terms in the Governor's Mansion. According to Rodrigue's wife, Wendy Rodrigue, he later said, “Without my permission they adopted my image. As usually happens with hometown folk, they assumedÃâà...
bestofneworleans.com
March 13, 2018
Edwards has suggested several ways to make revenues match the cost of vital services such as public hospitals and universities, and the popular TOPS college scholarship program. For their part, a majority of our lawmakers stubbornly refuse to fix what most of them broke under Bobby Jindal's "leadershipÃâà...
The Hayride
March 13, 2018
He has repeatedly blamed Bobby Jindal for the state's nearly $1 billion “shortfall” and other budget problems, calling Jindal, “the most irresponsible governor who has ever governed Louisiana.” When he went before Congress last April, he blamed partisan politics for the tough questioning he receivedÃâà...
The Advocate
March 13, 2018
Edwards is also backing some rollbacks on the 2012 education package that Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through, which drastically curtailed teacher tenure and made tests a major factor in teacher evaluations. Yet another idea on his agenda, legislation to address sexual harassment, is of the moment andÃâà...
News & Observer
March 10, 2018
Louisiana state employees aren't in the federal Social Security system, so proposals to shift them to the 401(k) approach of private companies have repeatedly hit resistance. Former Gov. Bobby Jindal muscled one through the Legislature in 2012, only to see the courts determine it was not legally approved.
bestofneworleans.com
March 10, 2018
Since the collapse of the recent special session, many have called any attempt to get state lawmakers to fix Louisiana's fiscal problems “Groundhog Day.” It's a reference to the movie in which a misanthropic character played by Bill Murray keeps waking up in Punxsutawney on Feb. 2 until he finally gets hisÃâà...
SFGate
March 6, 2018
... subsequent success to bending her California environment to her family, her party and her own ideals. "My father was a turban-wearing man of faith when he decided to be a Republican in a Democratically controlled, Klan-heavy state in the South," she says. "I'm not Nikki Haley, and I'm not Bobby Jindal.
Minden Press-Herald
March 6, 2018
Bobby Jindal's tenure. “There's no trust in this body.” Gov. Edwards and other Democratic leaders also claimed that Republicans had not negotiated in good faith. “Every budget reform proposal put on the table passed out of the House,” Edwards wrote in a tweet Sunday night after the vote, referring to GOPÃâà...
Alexandria Town Talk
March 6, 2018
Bobby Jindal systematically dismantled our mental health institutions. Now, people with mental problems are being sent to our jails, which are ill-equipped to address the kinds of problems plaguing many of those who turn to a life of crime. Due to Gov. John Bel Edwards and the bipartisan support that madeÃâà...
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
March 5, 2018
These measures have been taken up by state houses in every region of the country - they have passed almost uniformly with bipartisan majorities, and have been signed into law by governors of both parties, including Republicans like Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Robert Bentley, Gary HerbertÃâà...
The Advocate
March 4, 2018
He had never been in a leadership position before, while Alario has led major committees, served as House Speaker and even forged a working relationship in his previous term as senate president with a very different governor, Republican Bobby Jindal. True, Barras has more people to corral, 105 versusÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 3, 2018
Then, in 2008, Bobby Jindal became governor and we learned that the Fighting Tigers were really paper tigers. As Jindal and lawmakers attacked state universities and slashed their funding, nothing much happened in response. The alumni associations and university foundations did not organize theirÃâà...
The Advocate
February 23, 2018
“Roger, being a big-hearted, kind person, is what we needed during that time of growth,” said Timmy Teepell, who worked closely with Villere as the chief political strategist for Bobby Jindal when he served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor. “I would hear stories in other states about howÃâà...
The Advocate
February 15, 2018
For the second time in as many weeks, former Gov. Bobby Jindal has graced the pages of the Wall Street Journal's opinion section to give his take on the future of the Republican Party. In an op-ed published online Wednesday, Jindal warns that President Donald Trump's base "may not be sustainable" andÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Louisiana's former governor, Bobby Jindal, deserves much of the blame. A Republican wunderkind when elected at age 36 in 2008, he cut income taxes and roughly doubled the size of corporate tax breaks. By the end of his two terms, businesses were able to use those breaks to avoid paying about 80Ãâà...
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
December 31, 1999
Bobby Jindal had not signed off on the repeal of the Stelly tax plan. That's certainly the position of the Edwards administration. Worth noting, however, is our current governor, then a member of the House, was among those voting to rollback those Stelly-related taxes. It might be wise for Edwards—andÃâà...
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