If the republican party is going to survive, its candidates and stories like this one.It can flat out no longer be the grand old white party . Tell Me a republican elected official of color on the national level ? just one on the national level. Its not the only issue to vote on but we are increasingly a country of colour,many colors. Good thing , bad thing , doesnt matter your perspective ,its what is, and you "people" (you know the term I am fond of for general statements"f") need to deal with it . Now as for me I am for what I percieve as works . This guy works , he will be a national figure for republicans if he choses, of course J.C Watts from okla. was too and the republican party cut him off at the knees.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Downstairs, legislators gnashed their teeth, while upstairs at the Capitol here this week, the new governor claimed victory against the old customs down below.
Six weeks into the term of Gov. Bobby Jindal, an extensive package of ethics bills was approved here this week, signaling a shift in the political culture of a state proud of its brazen style. Mr. Jindal, the earnest son of Indian immigrants, quickly declared open season on the cozy fusion of interests and social habits that have prevailed among lobbyists, state legislators and state agencies here for decades. Mostly, he got what he wanted.
Mr. Jindal, an outsider to that rollicking if sometimes unsavory banquet, a Republican with a missionary’s zeal to smite Louisiana’s wickedness at one of its presumed sources, called on the Legislature to reform itself and its high-living ways
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people just want parties to deliver gvoernment that works , they really even will pay taxes if they feel it works. Louisianna has been a hotbed of corrupt politics for a while ,and democrats by and large . Its not the party label ,its actions that matter. Call yourself the party of fiscal responibility and then double the deficit , not so good .