Jindal

    Louisiana teacher’s union also thinks your kids aren’t yours

    By: Joe Cunningham (Diary)  |  April 30th at 01:12 PM  | 

    You remember that lovely little MSNBC promo that features the woman with too many last names? You don’t? Well, YouTube is here to remind us all.The basic gist: Your kids are all of ours*. Let’s head down to Louisiana now, my home state, the land that birthed Mr. Erickson (It’s true. The ground just opened up and he walked out with a coat and no | Read More »

    250 clergymen can be wrong

    By: Joe Cunningham (Diary)  |  March 18th at 04:34 PM  | 

    250 clergymen can be wrong

    In the latest effort to make Jindal feel really bad about his tax swap proposal, 250 clergymen sent a letter to his office. A handful of ministers delivered the letter to the governor’s office at the State Capitol Monday morning. Jindal wants to eliminate the state’s personal income and corporate taxes in favor of increasing the state sales tax by 47 percent and taxing services such | Read More »

    To fix a broken Louisiana

    By: Joe Cunningham (Diary)  |  January 31st at 02:13 PM  | 

    It’s not often that I write from a state politics perspective, largely because we aren’t a great bastion of political cleanliness and sometimes it’s a wee bit embarrassing. But, recently, I have to give credit to Governor Bobby Jindal for his ideas and statements regarding not only the future of the state, but the nation, as well. It is no secret that I’ve disagreed with | Read More »