“We must act now in order to keep our promise to workers, protect critical services like higher education and healthcare and protect future generations from more debt and higher taxes.”
–Gov. Bobby Jindal, in his response to a study by Dallas law firm Strasburger & Price which said virtually all the provisions of Jindal’s proposed state employee retirement reforms are unconstitutional.
Louisiana Voice 
Jindal thought he could scam the mediocre educated state employees because he is a Rhodes scholar. People of this state are waking up to who he really is….a liar and schemer. Surely he can’t get any of his little legislative followers to speak out because they couldn’t even explain the teacher bills they authored.
Unfortunately, and not meaning to be a cynic, if this doesn’t appear to pass constitutional muster, they will just put a constitutional amendment on the next available ballot. Since, of course, your average Louisiana voter is eminently qualified to write law.
As a gesture of good will, and to show that he is personally committed to his methods of reform, the governor should voluntarily ask that the law be changed to make the same provisions that apply to LASERS rank and file employees apply to the governor, as well. Wait! That might mean that he would only get a factor of 2.5 rather than 3.5, and might have to work longer than 16 years to be retirement eligible. Also, his recent purchase of over 2 years of time might not be worth much. I do not believe he is near 55, either, so he should probably plan on working in some capacity for the state until he is 67. He has assured us that this type of reform is legal, constitutional, and would not be considered a retroactive change. Further, as the governor has repeatedly assured us, such reform is necessary to provide a sustainable benefit for our state employees. Surely he means ALL state employees.
Forgotston.com blog notes that the legislative auditors were forced to remove the link to the memorandum: “Link to legal memo in commentary below is missing.
Apparently, the Lege Auditor has been ordered by Bobby Jindal to remove from his website the legal memorandum prepared at taxpayers’ expense outlining the constitutional problems with Jindal “pension reform plan.”
Even the lege staff can’t find it.
Since Team Jindal cannot refute the arguments in the memo, they simply made it disappear.
Fortunately, I downloaded it, but it will make no difference because I’ve not found one lege interested in the facts. They just do as they are told. Unfortunately, for Team Jindal, they can’t force me to get rid of my copy.
Pitiful lack of guts exhibited by the leges!
C.B.”
At the moment, the memorandum can still be found via the Lasersonline.org site:
Click to access LALegislatureAuditorMemo.pdf
When I read your comment, I went back to the Legislative Auditor’s page to see if I could find it. I, too, had originally had trouble finding it after hearing about it. I found it still posted as late as last night (4/2) by looking at “reports released by date” under 3/28.
Thanks for the update. His link to the memo was broken, but if the auditor’s office moved the location, then that would account for his inability to find the memo. I can’t speak to his claim that the administration ordered its removal. The claim could have been true and then countermanded later. Or it could simply have been a bad inference on the blogger’s part.
Forgotston.com has removed his earlier post that the leg auditor was forced to remove the memo and has updated his link (4/3/2012 a.m.).