“The coalition of the status quo is going to say my plan hurts teachers and hurts public education. They are going to do whatever it takes to say reform is a bad idea. They are going to argue for the status quo. It’s just the opposite. That type of rhetoric is insulting to the people across this state demanding better schools.”
—Gov. Piyush Jindal, in his Jan. 17, 2011 address to the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) during which he unveiled his sweeping reform package for public education. Piyush’s mean spirited rhetoric, in which he trashes teachers as a collective group, now takes on a sinister tone in light of last Friday’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Louisiana Voice 
Thanks for the note back and the suggestions.
Between you and me, I wonder what will happen in the next year. I’m increasingly convinced that Malloy can’t win – but that no one on the Democratic side will probably challenge him. Foley would be a disaster, but unless things change with Roy’s departure, I think this governor simply can’t restrain himself from insulting, denigrating and alienating the Democratic base to the point that they simply skip over his name on the ballot.
Yes Piyush, your self-serving, so-called plan for teachers, state employees and Louisiana just makes me sick. You are the most self-serving dictator that we have ever seen. You are no governor. You make Huey Long and Edwin Edwards candidates for sainthood when compared to you. You should be proud of yourself. A presidential candidate? Never. You can’t hold a candle to our President Barack Obama.
Dear Governor PBJ: You are presenting a false equivalence. My failure to embrace and support ALEC’s view of the future of education is not equal to wanting the status quo. This is not a case of “at least you’re doing something” being a good argument, either, because what ALEC’s puppets like you are doing will likely cause long-term damage to public education, that, if fixable at all after you’re finished, will cost us taxpayers a fortune to restore. Screw you and ALEC and your profiteering of every activity intended for the public welfare. Screw you for wanting to move every dime of public funds into private hands except the part that pays your eight years of salary and the salaries of your overpaid minions. I don’t care what you think the public is going to do or say, or why. Your statement reported above changes no facts. Your blathering never has altered a single fact, and it never will.
100% agreed…