Wife’s Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — Louisiana’s biggest corporate players, many with long agendas before the state government, are restricted in making campaign contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal. But they can give whatever they like to the foundation set up by his wife months after he took office.

AT&T, which needed Mr. Jindal, a Republican, to sign off on legislation allowing the company to sell cable television services without having to negotiate with individual parishes, has pledged at least $250,000 to the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana’s Children.

Marathon Oil, which last year won approval from the Jindal administration to increase the amount of oil it can refine at its Louisiana plant, also committed to a $250,000 donation. And the military contractor Northrop Grumman, which got state officials to help set up an airplane maintenance facility at a former Air Force base, promised $10,000 to the charity.

The foundation has collected nearly $1 million in previously unreported pledges from major oil companies, insurers and other corporations in Louisiana with high-stakes regulatory issues, according to a review by The New York Times.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/us/politics/03jindal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Amazing that some folks were believing the paid bloggers who praising and spreading the spin of Bobby Jindal as an environmentalist during the gulf oil spill while attacking President Obama. The fact of the matter is that Bobby Jindal has been and continues to be in the pocket of Big Oil. While complaining about federal spending on disaster preparation, he demanded billions in federal aid. While complaining about the federal government's response to the oil tragedy, he demanded that oil companies be free from regulation!

The great thing about being Republican is that you get a free pass! You can complain about deficit while giving away tax cuts to the rich and no one will call you on it.

[tanyev]

1. "Her foundation spends almost all of the money it takes in to buy high-tech whiteboards...

installed so far in 50 schools."


Question #1: Is a "high-tech whiteboard" really the answer to Louisiana's educational problems?

Question #2: Whiteboards for 50 schools costs $1 million? Seriously?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

2. Shocking!

I'm glad the "Liberal News" is finally doing something.