LouisianaVoice offers 2 more from mystery cartoonist

December 10, 2015 by tomaswell

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Posted in Budget, Cartoons, Finances, Governor's Office | 14 Comments

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on December 11, 2015 at 5:40 am | Reply Stephen Winham

Both brilliant!!!
on December 11, 2015 at 7:17 am | Reply Edith Herring

As usual, both of these are spot on. Question: Will Louisiana Republicans learn from this mess that they helped to create? Or, are we going to watch a dog fight with them continuing to drag Louisiana further down?
- on December 11, 2015 at 7:50 am | Reply Stephen Winham
  
  I pretty much asked exactly that question of Rolfe McCollister online after his latest editorial setting the stage for the letter yesterday.
on December 11, 2015 at 7:53 am | Reply Stephen Winham

By the way, go here for a Christmas treat to complement these cartoon strips:

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/12/bobby_jindals_ghostly_accompli.html
- on December 11, 2015 at 9:27 am | Reply Edith Herring
  
  Thank you for this. It actually brought me to tears. Think Jindal was twice elected…should there be blame to go around? And, if we don’t hold his enablers accountable, will we ever be able to climb out of this government mess? Did any of the local newspapers contradict his tour speech?
  - on December 11, 2015 at 10:35 am Stephen Winham
    
    Edith, read the comments here about his guest column if you haven’t already:
    
    http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/14237791-171/gov-bobby-jindal-recounting-eight-years-as-governor
    
    There are more now, but when I went to bed last night there were 71 comments of which exactly 1 was positive. The Advocate did run a highly critical editorial about his administration the day before publishing his guest column:
    
    http://theadvocate.com/news/14178284-123/our-views-one-last-jindal-fraud-on-the-budget
    
    Also, here’s a report on his visit to CenturyTel on his farewell tour. Though the reporter doesn’t mention it, we are told a total of 7 people were on hand for this visit, including the press and his security detail and the video seems to bear this out:
    
    http://www.knoe.com/home/headlines/Governor-Jindal-stops-by-CenturyLink-for-legacy-tour-361345131.html
    
    I’ve not seen anything about it in any other papers, but maybe some will take him to task in their Sunday editions. I would imagine Jim Beam could provide some good commentary in the Lake Charles paper. It’s hard to say if any of the others care enough to comment.:
  - on December 11, 2015 at 3:07 pm Edith Herring
    
    I have two quotes: Charlie Brown, “Good Grief! and Unknown, “The Emperior Has NO Clothes!”
on December 11, 2015 at 8:37 am | Reply Judith Smith

Just think how much more damage Jindal could have inflicted on Louisiana if he had actually stayed and “worked” here for the last two years.
on December 11, 2015 at 3:17 pm | Reply Eugene Morse

Keep up the good work! We can not attempt to solve problems unless we know what they are. I have been a resident of this state since 1951. I spent 22 years travelling the world in the Marine Corps and the USAF. I can comparatively say we are the greatest nation. I pull my hair out when it comes to Louisiana and its politics. Republicans and Red Necks seem to have taken over the state trying to drag it into the past. Racial bias still rages within some of the older and younger white sectors of its society. Some feel that the US has gone to hell in a hand basket while clinging to every negative assertion as the Gospel. Our youth sill flee this state in pursuit of better paying jobs. You will find more listings for Louisiana jobs in Texas. I can vocalize but that does not solve our problems. Hopefully, our youth will solve the state’s problem of being last or nearly last in everything but poverty.
on December 11, 2015 at 5:34 pm | Reply Veritas

Great! Thanks.
on December 13, 2015 at 1:36 am | Reply Politicallypooped

Oh, you! These only hurt when we DONT laugh! Thanks for that razor-sharp wit.
on December 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm | Reply Java Dude

Congrats, Tom. This article with the mystery cartoonist was picked up by Daily Kos, http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/12/1459136/-This-week-at-progressive-state-blogs-Big-Oil-plays-hardball-Ted-Nugent-vs-rabid-liberal-dogs.
on December 13, 2015 at 7:44 pm | Reply Alicia

Mr. Morse and all, remember when BJ campaigned on keeping our brightest and providing work here? His biggest lie!! If our next administration could only begin to un-do JB’s privatization damage (political payoffs to large contributors) we’d have difficulty attracting the physicians lost, the good professors and educators who retired or moved out of state and the brightest who must escape to other universities because programs had to be eliminated to balance meager budgets.

In k-12 public education alone BJ and his GOP minions looted millions from the treasury by gifting deductions to anyone who sent children to private, church and home schools: first $5K per family, then $5K per child, then unlimited kickbacks to any person or corporation that “donated” scholarships to private and parochial schools. Add to that laws that circumvented LA Constitutional requirements to support public education.

In a recent conversation with a rabid anti-gov. brainless propaganda parrot, she asked why her taxes should go to public education. My only answer (to those who don’t get it) is “from what planet are you?”
on December 13, 2015 at 8:42 pm | Reply Edith Herring

Alicia, I think you encountered a product of the religion of selfishness and greed. It looks as if this is “preached” and glorified in some of our churches and it is always easy to “indoctrinate” people with appeals to their base desires. They have been affirmed in their quest to keep what they have and take care of their own. It is as if they really do not want to live among the rest of us but want us to keep funding what they do want to use. At least, it seems this way to me. I find them to be very unlovely and mean-spirited people!