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From the Advocate: Governor is not putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to fiscal restraint.

From the Advocate: Republican State Senator Bob Kostelka, who is currently at the center of the controversy over Governor Jindal’s move to weaken ethics enforcement standards, lashed out at state Ethics Board general counsel Richard Sherburne last week, accusing him of trying to lobby the legislature against adding the tougher standard for prosecuting ethics charges. Turns out, Kostelka was wrong. Sherburne had not commented on the standard change until after the legislation had passed. 

From the Advocate: Questions over the meaning of Democrat Don Cazayoux’s victory in Louisiana’s 6th district linger a week after his victory over Republican Woody Jenkins.

From the Advocate: Touting ethics reform on one hand while actually weakening ethics standards on the other, Governor Jindal seems to be pulling off one of the biggest political shell games in recent memory.

With the help of his executive counsel and his Legislative managers, the administration is sticking by amendments that promise to make it more difficult to prosecute ethics charges. Whether the Governor can maintain the illusion has as much to do with the will of the legislature (or lack thereof) as it does the willingness of the Governor and his administration to deceive.

From the Houton Chronicle and the Washington Post: In the same week that Sen. David Vitter dodges an ethics complaint over his penchant for prostitutes and another GOP Congressman gets caught in an extra marital affair, a majority of House Republicans vote against a resolution in support of the celebration of Mother’s Day.

From the Associated Press: With calls now for the resignation of New York Rep. Vito Fossella over reports that he fathered a child through an extra marital affair, Senator David Vitter’s name is once again finding it’s way into the disgrace pages of Washington politics.