Jindal snubs gubernatorial debate
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Written by Heather Miller
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Friday, October 07, 2011 |
Gov. Bobby Jindal will not participate in a gubernatorial candidate debate with the nine candidates running against him because it won’t be televised statewide.
The Times-Picayune reports that all of Jindal’s nine challengers, none of which have a slim chance of defeating him, have agreed to participate in the Oct. 12 debate sponsored by the Louisiana Association of Educators. Jindal is the only candidate not attending:
Asked about the debate Wednesday, the Republican governor said he didn't know about it. His spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, says the governor's office turned down the invitation because Jindal will only participate in debates that are televised statewide.
Next week's debate isn't planned for TV.
LAE officials say the nine men and women running against Jindal have agreed to participate. None of the challengers have raised enough money to mount a significant challenge to Jindal, who has a multimillion dollar campaign account.
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Excellent article on our present political culture. Since 94% of our political candidates win who have the most money, why would Governor Jindal "bore" the brain-dead constituents of Louisiana with an "open" debate. He risks exposure as to his dire policies that actually hurt our poor, working poor, middle class and our professional classes. When one can rob the citizens of their future so effortlessly, why stir up the pot?
How does that delightful saying go from the criminal business corporate interest of Louisiana? Oh, Yes! "Ignorance loves bliss!" Keep the citizens poor, stupid, and distracted! It works every time.
Here is what he could have been doing. I quote a "Proposal for Mr. Bobby Jindal" I personally presented to him in 2004 CE:
"Why you? You unite in your person two great intellectual traditions of the Indo-European people dedicated to a knowledge economy: India and France! In Europe for the last seven centuries, 'The army was in Germany, the church in Italy, and knowledge in France.' In India there has been a knowledge economy for thirty-five centuries. The Indians are the global leaders in software code programming for our post-modern global economy. You will be tapping into this brilliant engineering information technology."
"The post-modern model for the Information technology has four knowledge inputs: biological system, information system, community-communications social system & cognitive neuro-scientific system. This is how 40% of our households will draw their financial resources for their human survival in less than twenty years."
At this time, my interest was to have him replace Senator John Breaux. If he could not do that, than "take a very visible role to be the 'knowledge czar' of Louisiana to implement in a coherent manner the global emergent knowledge economy for Louisiana."
He did neither. He has taken us back into ignorance!