Bobby Jindal

Jindal bounces back from payraise debacle

Jindal bounces back from payraise debacle
By Wiley Hilburn, Shreveport Times
August 4, 2008

On a day when the Louisiana summer temperature reached 103 degrees, Jindal's visit to Dubach drew a cool standing-room-only crowd of 200-plus, which treated the governor to a standing ovation.

The governor, in his stump uniform of blue blazer, tan slacks and no tie, touted his just-over-six-month record of significant ethics reform and of vetoing $16 million in mostly pork projects.

Jindal has — in fact — picked up scandal-prone Louisiana by the ears like a Catahoula cur dog and shaken it violently, getting good government marks in the process.

In his just over 200 days in office, the first non-white to hold the governor's office since Reconstruction has made historic progress.

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