Thank You Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana

Letter to the Lake Charles American Press

Dear editor:

Thank you Governor Jindal. Thank you for proving that you are just another politician who is willing to overlook what is best for the state in the interest of your own programs.

Thank you for making a campaign promise that you would “prohibit” legislators from giving themselves an immediate raise in pay. Thank you for allowing that law to pass without a veto even though you called it “excessive.” Thank you for making our legislators the highest base paid among Southern states. Thank you for making the Louisiana legislature the 14th highest paid in the nation. We finally are not last in a category.

Thank you for ignoring a very vocal grass root unhappiness with a governor that sees, with his blessing, a bill clear both the House and Senate increasing base pay for the currently seated representatives from $16,800 to $37,500. Thank you for not listening to all the radio and TV commentators who spoke out against this fiasco. Thank for ignoring all the emails, phone calls, and regular mail to your office expressing unhappiness.

Thank you for showing you do not care that inflation, sky high gas prices, unemployment, home foreclosures and fear of future financial times is hurting your electorate. Thank you for showing that you and the legislators aren’t worried what the people of this state think and that it will all blow over in a few months, as it usually does.

Here’s hoping that the voters of this state will remember the callousness that they have been shown when the next election comes up. Once again we see that campaign promises mean absolutely nothing. And for that we have to thank you.