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According to Bayou Buzz, LAGOP Executive Director Matt Parker (Jindal’s homeschooled homeboy’s  brother in law) stated this about Mary Landrieu and her failure to respond to Nagin’s endorsement of Barack Obama:

Today’s endorsement raises more questions than answers.  In a press release announcing today’s endorsement, Nagin cited ‘Obama’s advocacy for the people of

Louisianaand working men and women across the county’ and specifically his work to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.   Does Mary Landrieu disagree with Nagin?  Why won’t Landrieu stand up and let Louisianans know why she won’t endorse Obama?”

Say what?!?!?! Mabye Landrieu doesn’t want to take sides. Maybe Landrieu would be happy voting for either of the two Democrats against John 100 years in Iraq McCain. Maybe Landrieu figures that she can be silent in a race where the presumptive Republican nominee didn’t get the most votes in the Republican primary. Maybe Mary Landrieu didn’t feel that she needed to make an anouncement over an endorsement by someone else. Or maybe, just maybe, Mary Landrieu doesn’t feel the need to answer to the head of the party who is trying to unseat her. I would at least go with the last one, though others may be valid as well.

This is just a silly question raised by Matt Parker. Now, is he the voice of Cartman? Or is that Trey Stone? See, I got the names mixed up and even those are better questions than the brainchild of Homeschool’s brother in law.

The idea that Nagin’s endorsement raises more questions than it answers is absurd. I guess the Republicans set the bar low when they chose their executive director.

Karen Carter is going to have a press conference today to respond to attacks made by “Believe In Louisiana“, Jindal’s own personal propaganda service All Children Matter. (Update from Cheron Brylski corrected who was paying for the ad. Believe in Louisiana is still a problem though).

Believe in Louisiana states:

All contributions and expenditures will be publicly disclosed. Believe in Louisiana knows that complete transparency is very important to us, just as it should be in government.

I wonder when that will happen. I won’t be holding my breath. Of course, the existence of Believe in Louisiana is to distort the actual record and make people believe that Jindal’s reforms are meaningful and will bring positive change to our state.  

When I can find audio of the ad that is being run against Carter I will post it here. I am sure it will be filled with half truths if Carter is actually doing things against the wishes of Republicans (especially Jindal). This would be a refreshing change for Carter, especially since she backed Jim Tucker for Speaker previously.

Ironically, I got this message from the “Krewe of Truth” mailing list by Cheron Brylski. Cheron is reported to have said:

“Bobby Jindal is striking a chord with Democrats. They’re saying, ‘I love Bobby Jindal and I am so glad he’s our governor’,”

She also calls Jindal “Louisiana’s last hope” and states “There is also an overwhelming pride about having a minority governor,”. Yet she is critical of Jindal’s home-schooled homeboy Timmy Teepell by stating, “The ads were supposedly ordered by Teepell to “punish” the Speaker Pro Tem for opposing the Administration’s voucher bill”.

I wonder if Brylski will continue to hold Jindal in such high esteem after his propaganda outlet attacked Karen Carter  even though his chief of staff is supposedly calling for retribution. Or will she just put the blame on Teepell only?

Update: I crossed out some of the information that was corrected on the Krewe Of Truth website. Even though it is a group from outside Louisiana pushing for the legislation and calling for Carter to support it, Krewe of Truth is still claiming that Teepell called for the ads as political retribution.

Update 2: Oyster followed the money and found some interesting information about “All Children Matter”. It is a must read.  

Oyster points us to the latest Jeremy Alford article which is a must read. Oyster does cover most of the important items. However, I do have to correct one thing Alford said:

Publicly, Jindal maintains a schedule that favors tightly scripted speeches and appearances to community groups and gatherings of supporters, spreading an unwavering message of positive change… 

Behind the scenes, media and good-government groups like PAR scratch their collective heads as they watch the transformation of Louisiana’s Ivy League-educated Rhodes Scholar governor from an engaging, serious policy wonk to a stonewalling, carefully protected politician.

Perhaps there is a transformation on perception on the part of the media who bought what Jindal was selling. However, for those of us who paid attention from day one, we understand that there has been no real transformation. Jindal has always been this way. Look at the 2004 campaign. Timmy Teepell defended Jindal’s failure to answer surveys by saying that he attended meetings with his supporters. I criticizedthis during the campaign. Of course the media back then refused to challenge Jindal on anything.

Mr. “transparency in Government” himself, Governor Jindal, is not only refusing to listen to military advisors he appointed for issues surrounding the Louisiana National Guard, but he is not letting anybody see the report they submitted either. According to T-P:

The Louisiana National Guard is suffering from low morale, leadership problems and nepotism, according to a group of retired generals appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal to review the military department’s operations.

The governor’s office, however, has dismissed some of the suggestions made by the generals and has refused to release the report, citing executive privilege.

So executive privilege now trumps transparency? I wonder how the hacks who support Jindal and everything he does will defend that.

The article discusses a letter to the administration by Adjunct Gen. Ansel “Buddy” Stroud and a response by Timmy “my homeschooled homeboy” Teepell. An important statement by Stroud involving all this is:

“Our committee members . . . were told that the reason for our mission was to keep politics out of the process,” Stroud’s letter says. “Because of this statement, these committee members agreed to devote their valuable time to the project. Obviously, we were misled regarding this.“

That just goes to show that Jindal will say one thing and do another.

“I just wished the governor would have approached this in a manner that was more open, and not as divisive as it has become in the last week,” said retired Brig. Gen. Sam deGeneres, a member of the panel. “He has challenged Gen. Stroud’s integrity, as well as ours, and that’s not acceptable. Mr. Teepell owes Gen. Stroud a public apology and he owes the members of the committee a public apology.”

I wouldn’t expect one from Mr. Teepell. The arrogance of the Jindal administration is clear and Homeschool has that arrogance down to a T.

More from the article…

Retired Brig. Gen. Kenneth Ross said he and his fellow panel members put in days of work only to be rudely dismissed by the governor’s office. He said he hoped the panel’s concerns about the Guard would reach the governor.

“I’m actually mystified,” Ross said. “I thought Bobby Jindal was smarter than this.”

Well, a lot of people thought a lot of things about Governor Jindal that they are now finding to be false. If only someone had been around to reveal those things about Bobby Jindal ahead of time….

And as if this wasn’t enough, while listening to Jeff Crouere this morning I heard that Jindal replaced the now former head of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission Colonel James Champagne. Why? Cause Bobby Jindal promised the bikers that he would repeal the helmet law and the Colonel was against such a change. He fought Governor Foster when Foster tried to repeal the helmet law during his administration. Champagne helped Blanco get the law reinstated. So now that Jindal wants to allow bikers to splatter their brains all over the highway, the best way to do that is to remove someone from the LOUISIANA HIGHWAY SAFETY COMMISSION who is trying to make sure that Louisiana’s Highways are safe. Go figure.

Cross posted at Jindal Is Bad.