Kostelka “thinks” it Was his Idea to Change Ethics Standard

From the Advocate: Responding to implications that he worked with the Jindal administration to gut ethics reforms by changing the standard of proof by which ethics charges are prosecuted, Senator Bob Kostelka contends that there was no hidden agenda.

According to Kostelka, meetings were had on the issue of changing the standard prior to his last minute inlcusion of the amendment raising the standard from “reliable and substantial” evidence to “clear and convincing”. However Kostelka provides no details as to who, other than Jindal’s executive counsel Jimmy Faircloth, attended this meeting.