Ethics Board Warned Jindal

From the Advocate: In documents obtained by the paper, the state ethics board warned Governor Jindal that his move to raise the standard of proof for prosecuting ethics charges to “clear and convincing” threaten the board’s ability to enforce the Governor’s ethics “gold standard.”

In a fiery rebuke of the board’s actions, Senator Bob Kostelka, Jindal’s Senate floor manager and shepherd of the Governor’s ethics package, said the board’s request for the Governor to veto a portion of the ethics package that Jindal had called for was “asking the impossible.”

The big question that remains is exactly why did the Governor request this change in the first place?