Naw, that was one of Foster's fishing buddies, some shipping tycoon from Shreveport or something, who put together the Cabal that selected Downer; not a bad idea to narrow down the field, but it just looks bad to have eleven people making the decision (would have been worse but they only narrowed the GOP field to 4, leaving plenty of choice). It's the kind of stuff that always goes on behind closed doors, re who is going to get establishment funding, but it's almost better if it remains private.
Foster has been supporting Jindal from the get-go, along with a lot of other folks of many different stripes. Some have been suspicious of Piyush "Bobby" Jindal because of it, but most of us look on it as the best thing Foster's ever done as governor.