#bobby jindal

The NRA was a Russia cut out organization. Maria Butina was fucking her way through Republicans for power, influence and corruption.

Simply remind them:

One year from now, nearly all of 2020's presidential candidates will be actively and officially campaigning.

And if they call you a liar, remind them:

Four years ago today, the following candidates were actively campaigning as official, declared candidates:

Mark Everson, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee,  Rick Santorum, George Pataki, Martin O'Malley, Lindsey Graham, Lincoln Chafee,  Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Jill Stein, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, and Jim Webb.

By the end of July, Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Jim Gilmore joined the election.

And on August 3, the first televised Republican forum took place.

The heady excitement of the fracking boom hides some deeply important—and little discussed—political choices, of course. In the last Louisiana oil boom, from 1928 to 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, Louisiana governor Huey Long, the progressive demagogue—the Kingfish, as he was called—declared “every man a king,” taxed oil companies, using that money to put a “chicken in every pot,” give out free textbooks to schoolchildren, create evening literacy courses for adults, and build roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools. Long curbed homelessness and poverty. Before succumbing to the lure of oil money himself, Long embraced the ideal of an activist government that lifted the poor and added to the common good.

By contrast, from 2007 to 2015, as mentioned, Governor Bobby Jindal drew $1.6 billion from schools and hospitals to give to companies as “incentives.” This strategy put some chickens in some pots, of course, and indirectly took them away from others. Like nearly everyone I talk to, Mayor Hardey twice voted for Governor Jindal, as did his family. And were he alive today, very few Louisianans would vote for Huey Long.