I realize that many Republicans have been critical of President Obama’s race to the top program for improving education. Our esteemed Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, has reacted in the exteme. He has launched his own “race to the bottom” by cutting LSU and other educational funding. The shame is that Jindal’s race to the bottom is going to be so easy to win. Our state already ranks near the bottom in most educational categories. As the Governor spans the country raising campaign money and attempting establish his national bona fides, I hope he will be questioned about the sad state of Louisiana’s budget woes and his failure to devise ways to protect education. Like many others of his ilk, Jindal believes the best way to win votes is to penalize the poor, sick and under-educated.
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Bobby Jindal tops my list of “most miss-represented and disappointing leaders” and I feel utterly hoodwinked by him and cannot wait to help remove him from office. I supported him as a creative, non-political, intelligent, imaginative leader who said he would create consensus and help turn the ship called LA around with energy and contagious enthusiasm. Instead, he has pandered shamelessly, like a puppet to the Republican party as well as the likes of limbaugh et al, provided pathetic scant leadership here in LA, been almost singlemindedly focused on national partisan positioning with a party that holds people like him and Palin as their best and brightest. What a sorry, sad state of affairs for not only LA but for the national republican party for that matter.
I hope I have it straight now in posting comments.