Letter: Jindal: new face on old politics
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I am disappointed and outraged that my fellow Louisiana citizens have not spoken against the high salaries that our newly elected governor has given to his freshly appointed economic director, $320,000; assistant economic director, $285,000; health and hospitals director, $300,000-plus; and state school superintendent, $355,000.
The salaries given to these individuals are the highest of any official in that same position in the nation.
Louisiana is ranked 50 out of 50 in the nation as being lowest in economic development, work-force development, education, health, social, cultural, crime and welfare of the people. We are the laughingstock once again of being a corrupt state. Can anyone think of Louisiana government as striving for honesty and ethics reform when such actions have occurred by a governor nationally promoting ethics reform?
Gov. Bobby Jindal should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed of his double standard ethical practice. He publicly spoke against the raises to the legislators, yet he has remained silent and stonewalled reporters about these salaries. Why is he hiding?
Ethics reform was his platform “selling point” to the citizens to get himself elected. People wanted an open, honest government administration. We were all tired and weary of the backdoor/closed-door corrupt and abusive history of our state’s politics. We wanted the very “change” he espoused. How can he look the people he is to lead in the eye and justify these salaries, the stonewalling, then not apply the same rules of the game to himself that he demands of others? Is he that coldhearted?
What he has brought in his short history is a new face to the old Louisiana politics. It’s a 21st-century politics with a new name, “Stonewall Jindal Ethics Reform Open Abuse of Power.”
I hope the citizens of this state pay closer attention to the type of “selling of politics” that he’s brought to them.
Remember P.T. Barnum’s adage: “Give the people what they want.” Jindal’s adage, “I’ll give the people what I want.”
Lena Anderson
unemployed
Opelousas
The salaries given to these individuals are the highest of any official in that same position in the nation.
Louisiana is ranked 50 out of 50 in the nation as being lowest in economic development, work-force development, education, health, social, cultural, crime and welfare of the people. We are the laughingstock once again of being a corrupt state. Can anyone think of Louisiana government as striving for honesty and ethics reform when such actions have occurred by a governor nationally promoting ethics reform?
Gov. Bobby Jindal should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed of his double standard ethical practice. He publicly spoke against the raises to the legislators, yet he has remained silent and stonewalled reporters about these salaries. Why is he hiding?
Ethics reform was his platform “selling point” to the citizens to get himself elected. People wanted an open, honest government administration. We were all tired and weary of the backdoor/closed-door corrupt and abusive history of our state’s politics. We wanted the very “change” he espoused. How can he look the people he is to lead in the eye and justify these salaries, the stonewalling, then not apply the same rules of the game to himself that he demands of others? Is he that coldhearted?
What he has brought in his short history is a new face to the old Louisiana politics. It’s a 21st-century politics with a new name, “Stonewall Jindal Ethics Reform Open Abuse of Power.”
I hope the citizens of this state pay closer attention to the type of “selling of politics” that he’s brought to them.
Remember P.T. Barnum’s adage: “Give the people what they want.” Jindal’s adage, “I’ll give the people what I want.”
Lena Anderson
unemployed
Opelousas
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