Bobby Jindal

Saturday night we all saw what Mary Landrieu's going price is. Not only that, we saw her on the Senate floor adamantly defend her decision to sell her vote. Now, WAFB in Baton Rouge raises the question of Bobby Jindal and his silence on the matter. Jindal is on the record in opposition to Obamacare, and as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, he has some experience in that arena. During his tenure at DHH he turned a $400 million deficit into a multi-year surplus. On Obamacare he has said "Only Democrats in Washington would propose new taxes on businesses and ... Read Full Story

By From the Times-Picayune November 23, 2009, 9:15PM The October 2008 fundraiser for Gov. Bobby Jindal was held in conjunction with the LSU-Florida football game. Gov. Bobby Jindal has been raising plenty of cash for his 2011 re-election campaign through a string of out-of-state fundraisers. But at least $30,000 of the haul will be donated to charity after the co-host of an October 2008 event in Florida was accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme . The money was funneled to Jindal’s campaign by Scott Rothstein , a South Florida ... Read Full Story

Tropical Storm Ida bore down on the US Gulf coast on Tuesday, still packing strong winds after cutting a swath of destruction that left 136 dead in Central America. Ida was 95 miles (153 kilometers) southwest of Mobile, Alabama at 0600 Tuesday, moving north at a speed of 10 miles per hour with sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida said. "We urge people to take precautions and watch their children," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said at a press conference. Storm tides could be six feet higher than normal, resulting in "nuisance flooding" on low-lying roads across ... Read Full Story

New Orleans braced itself Monday for the arrival of tropical storm Ida, packing strong winds despite weakening after cutting a swath of destruction along the coast of Central America. Ida was set to make landfall in Mississippi early Tuesday, but tropical force winds were expected to reach from Louisiana to Florida as early as Monday afternoon. "We urge people to take precautions and watch their children," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said at a press conference. Storm tides could be six feet higher than normal, resulting in "nuisance flooding" on low-lying roads across the Louisiana coastline, Jindal said. And strong winds could snap tree limbs ... Read Full Story

Tropical storm Ida drenched the US Gulf coast Tuesday, but made landfall with weakened force after cutting a swath of destruction that left 136 dead in Central America. Ida was a category two hurricane on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale on Sunday, but lost strength as it moved north and is forecast to further weaken Tuesday. The storm however remains dangerous: it is forecast to dump up to eight inches (20 centimeters) of rain across the southeastern United States, and area officials were preparing for floods and damage caused by the ocean surge. Ida made landfall at 1140 GMT on Dauphin Island, Alabama, packing wind ... Read Full Story