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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

Bobby Jindal’s unpleasant record

Author:     Dana Milbank
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     February 9 at 5:48 PM
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Stephan:   Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is not an uneducated man; he was a Rhodes Scholar. It's just that he is a toxically ambitious ideologue who will do or say whatever he thinks will advance his chances to be a national figure and, hopefully, President. Like his Republican colleagues, Governors Scott Walker and Sam Brownback, for instance, he has driven his state to the brink of disaster over his fact-free attitudes.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal talks about his plan for national education reform at a policy breakfast in Washington on Monday. Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal talks about his plan for national education reform at a policy breakfast in Washington on Monday.
Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took his presidential campaign-in-waiting to Washington on Monday trailed by an unwelcome, unsavory and downright unpleasant companion: his record.

The interloper followed the Louisiana Republican into the St. Regis Hotel and crashed his breakfast meeting with three dozen reporters, at which Jindal planned to make the case to do for America what he did for Louisiana.

Dave Cook of the Christian Science Monitor, the breakfast host, quickly acknowledged the presence of Jindal’s uninvited guest by pointing out that, for all of Jindal’s claims that he’s a champion of education, a study found that public universities in Louisiana had suffered the deepest cuts per student in the nation under Jindal.

The governor replied by talking about teacher salaries, taxes, state credit upgrades, […]

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