February 20, 2009 (Ran In www.thenewsstar.com February 22, 2009)

Dear Editor:

Presidential candidate Jindal has announced that he might not take the federal stimulus money available for Louisiana; yet at the same time Mr. Jindal announces that Louisiana is nearly $2,000,000,000 in debt. Clearly Mr. Jindal is not concerned about the people who elected him to office. Mr. Jindal is more concerned about attracting a perceived national voting base important only to someone running for president.

Mr. Jindal came into office with a $2.000.000.000 surplus. Where has all the money gone? Mr. Gingrich one of his presidential campaign managers states on national television that Mr. Jindal is doing a wonderful job; that in spite of the difficult economic times Mr. Jindal has created new jobs in Louisiana. But the only jobs Mr. Jindal has created are 4,500 state jobs. So much for capitalism.

First of all Mr. Jindal has never held a real job. He has lived off of taxpayer’s money from start to finish: first for Congressman McCrery, then for Governor Foster, then for Senator Breaux, then as a Congressman, and now as a Governor. Mr. Jindal has never received a real check and never paid any real income taxes. A word for someone like Mr. Jindal is opportunist

If you want to see your governor Louisiana, then you had better be in North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, or Florida. And you had better bring money!

Dear Editor:

Well there he goes again; Governor Jindal flew off for two days to North Carolina. While Louisiana “burns” up in debt, Governor Jindal goes off a “fiddling” around for presidential campaign contributions in Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham. What will it take to get our governor.to sit at our desk and work day in and day out to turn our economy around?

For example, it seems there is a company, NUCOR, in North Carolina that was considering building a steel manufacturing plant in Louisiana. It would seem logical to visit North Carolina to seal the deal and get NUCOR to come to Louisiana. But logic is not politic. Now it has been reported that NUCOR will probably go to Brazil instead.

A KNOE straw poll taken after the governor’s junket was reported by the AP showed that well over 60% of those voting thought Governor Jindal should not have made the trip. The last time polls were that bad was when Governor Jindal went AWOL on the legislative pay raises. Maybe Governor Jindal will stop all the gallivanting around for the same reason he stopped the pay raise, his election poll numbers are tanking.