I’m from Louisiana but moved away after Katrina, and before Jindal was elected governor. Even before the storm, the whole state was like Detroit, blighted and down at the heels. Especially in New Orleans, corruption was a fact of life; you had to grease palms to get the simplest things done.Go, Bobby, Go!
Went back for the 10th anniversary a couple weeks ago. OMG! The recovery under Jindal is FANTASTIC and the economy is booming! I never should have left! New flood walls, storm remediation projects, drains, pumps, pump houses; the docks and wharves are thriving with ships and trucking companies, offshore oil drilling, new hotels, condos, offices, businesses...things that have needed doing for decades have been DONE in 7 years under Jindal, and this following the worst natural disaster in US history.
But the thing that blew my mind the most, was the Huey P. Long bridge.
I’d driven over that narrow, rusty, rickety junk-heap for decades with eyes closed and fingers crossed. Now it’s been torn down and replaced with a modern concrete and steel span. Corruption was the reason these things didn’t get done before. Money for many of these public works projects had been repeatedly allocated, in past decades, only to disappear into pockets of entrenched politicians and their cronies. So, yeah, I agree that Jindal is the one most likely to get Congress to allocate funds, and get the border wall built.
“Went back for the 10th anniversary a couple weeks ago. OMG! The recovery under Jindal is FANTASTIC and the economy is booming! I never should have left! New flood walls, storm remediation projects, drains, pumps, pump houses; the docks and wharves are thriving with ships and trucking companies, offshore oil drilling, new hotels, condos, offices, businesses...things that have needed doing for decades have been DONE in 7 years under Jindal, and this following the worst natural disaster in US history.”
That was all going on BEFORE Bobby Jindal took office, always has been. The public works — federally mandated and paid for.
The most laughable assertion concerns the bridge. It was not torn down and rebuilt, but refurbished. The legislature and voters approved the refurbishment in the 80s and work began on the bridge in April 2006. Jindal took office in 2008.
Incidentally, New Orleans became a sanctuary city in 2013. Jindal did not oppose it, although, now, since he is running for president, he campaigns against them — says the sanctuary cities are partners in crime. What does that make him?