Jim Brown gets on the campaign finance reform bandwagon!
Over on Bayou Buzz, Jim Brown states:
Right now, Louisiana has loopholes in its campaign finance laws you could drive a truck through. If the new Governor limits his ethics reform proposals to disclosure and limitations on just elected officials, he will give the perception of making some changes, but he will not be shutting the door on what are now widespread abuses.
Bobby Jindal needs to do more than just get a hit his first time at bat with the new legislature. He needs to hit a homerun. Closing campaign finance loopholes will give him a good shot at getting off to a good start that is perceived as both perception and substantive change.
I discussed this issue with him when I called into his show. The topic of discussion was about Bobby Jindal failing to follow his promise of not interfering with the selection of legislative leaders when he backed Chaisson for Senate President. I asked if anyone was surprised that Jindal would back down on this promise since he campaign on ethics and then promoted someone to his ethics team that used that violation of the campaign finance laws. I hope more and more people jump on this bandwagon. I have been trying to make a large noise about this for a while now and finally I think we are getting some traction!