I suspect Jindal’s record of shutting down useless bureaucracies and laying off 30,000 state employees may have ticked off those people and then had a ripple effect, in turn ticking off many others whose connections to the public teat were shut down.
I bet Edwards’ first order of business will be to rehire a lot of those money-suckers.
My own, admittedly unscientific observation as an ordinary citizen under previous Democrat administrations, pre-Katrina, was that getting ANYTHING done in Louisiana was a hair-tearing ordeal. Many everyday governmental functions were not computerized; documents were in file cabinets and cardboard boxes.
Many government offices were over-staffed by women whose only function was to tell citizens to come back later.
Auditing was essentially nonexistent, which allowed, for instance, the New Orleans schools’ payroll office—for several years—to continue issuing pay checks to “employees” who had already retired and were drawing pensions, as well as relatives and friends who had NEVER worked for the school district.
So, I’m thinking Gov Edwards will be returning the state to biz as usual, and joy will once again reign. /s
True, the state employees, especially the teacher’s union hated Jindal’s guts. When he was reelected in 2011, his first order of business was to go after teacher tenure. They vowed revenge, and were solidly behind Edwards this time.