re: #133 loppyd

I’m not sure he’s the one we’re looking for either. I was just wondering…

Other than his position on ID, are you happy with how he has governed your state?

Are you infuriated that he is not taking some of the stimulus money?

I live in MA so I am infuriated at everything my governor does.

When he ran against Kathleen Blanco the first time, he lost. She epitomized the good-old-boy network here, the old way, and she needed to go. He lost. When he ran again we were determined that he would win this time and he did. Support was phenomenal. (This was post-Katrina, which played a large role.)

Since his election, he seems like a balloon that is slowly deflating. The soaring rhetoric, the words of a “new Louisiana” ….have not borne fruit. Yet. He nearly had a revolt on his hands with the whole congressional pay raise issue. He seems to be still trying to get his feet underneath him and figure out where to put his energy.

OTOH, TFK made a post yesterday that was dead on, about our ports and special interests/corruption from north to south, from New Orleans to the Texas border, casinos, big oil, etc …and how Jindal has managed to remain untouched by any taint of corruption (that has ALWAYS managed to attach itself to our Governor).

As for the stimulus money, I admire him for rejecting it, although I will believe that when I see it. Haley Barbour, Gov of Mississippi is making the same noises, as is the Gov of Tennessee. We will see on that one.

The ID think is what infuriates me. The state of the schools and the power of the teacher unions piss me off.

Other than that, how are you feeling? I know you’ve been under the weather for quite a while. :-)