Jindal’s Closed Door Dealings Raise Legislator’s Ire

WAFB’s Caroline Moses reports that the Jindal administration is working behind closed doors to kill ethics bills, even while touting reform and transparency in the open. Two bills in particular that have drawn the ire of the Jindal Administration were killed in committee today after Jindal CoS Timmy Teepell called to demand that the sponsors withdraw them.

Calling it a “sad day for Louisiana” Representative Neil Abramson, who had his bill that would require disclosure of political donors who give over $1000 and are subsequently appointed to a board or commission killed, said that he was told that the administration felt the bill was targeted at them (Could it be that Teepell and Co. read the box?).  The other bill, the Karen Carter Peterson’s bill to require candidates to pay their own fines was the other.

“Not only does it send the wrong message, but also tells the people that good government is only good when it doesn’t include you, and I think that’s not the message we need to be sending to people,” Abramson said. ”I don’t think that’s what the governor came here for.”