Bobby Jindal's political appointees have showered his campaign with cash

[nolaboy]

Source: nola.com

There are two things that tend to be true of the people Gov. Bobby Jindal appoints to the dozens of boards and commissions in Louisiana: They agree with the governor's agenda. And they have contributed, often generously, to his campaign fund.

At least 317 appointees, their families and their companies gave the governor's campaign more than $1.8 million in contributions in a four-year period that ended in 2012, according to a joint examination of campaign finance records by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and WVUE Fox 8 News.

Their donations made up more than 13 percent of the $13.3 million Jindal raised in that period - a significant haul from a relatively small group among thousands of Jindal donors.

Critics say the appointments look like a political payoff for top donors. Defenders say it's only natural that a governor would select his allies for policy roles and that the contributions are almost coincidental.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/11/bobby_jindals_political_appoin.html#incart_maj-story-2

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. What a surprise! Jindal is corrupt as hell!

[immoderate]

2. What prevents him getting the Don Siegelman treatment?

--imm

[FiveGoodMen]

12. He's with the GOP

[Snake Plissken]

3. They can't help it, they love their boss

[okaawhatever]

4. Jindal is turning LA into a third world state. I do agree that politicians give jobs to people they

know and trust, which would also be their supporters. However, when someone has that kind of money to donate you have to question their need for the state job in the first place. This is more fallout from not having campaign cash laws and Citizens United, but does anyone question why someone with that kind of coin would take a state job? Could it be the same reason millionaire Art Pope did in North Carolina, to run the state he bought and paid for from the inside.

[dsharp88]

5. Crook. n/t

[SoapBox]

6. Rotten...To...The...Core!

[Judi Lynn]

7. What a shock. He has never seemed slimy, neither has Scott Walker! n/t

[Scuba]

9. Walker makes Jindal look like a choir boy.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

MORE for THEM.


NONE for YOU.

[Myrina]

10. That's pretty much how it works with ALL OF THEM!

Sadly, from both parties: "You get me elected, I give you a plum job, you help me raise mo' money."

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

11. Well, they aired a Louisiana tourism ad here in Colorado the other day.

Unimpressive.

All I thought of Jindal when they showed the swamp, the brass, the culture.

Once they get rid of Jindal and their Republicans, then I will go visit Louisiana, but in the meantime I'm staying with Colorado.

[mdbl]

13. Funny thing about Jindal's culture

Lousiana is the state where everyone has to replace their first names with something ending in "y" or "ie".

[KamaAina]

14. His given name is Piyush

oops! Any Dem who mentions that is tagged as a racist.

So desperate was his desire to "belong", even as a small child, that he took "Bobby" from the Brady Bunch!