Bobby Jindal spent half of 2014 outside of Louisiana; critics: that the best use of time?

[DonViejo]

Frequent flier

BY MARK BALLARD| [e-mail]

The day one of Louisiana’s levee boards filed an environmental damages lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies, which would become the biggest issue during the last legislative session, Gov. Bobby Jindal issued a scathing response — from Aspen, Colorado.

His first in-depth comments about what impact the collapse of the price of oil was having on the state’s already beleaguered budget came while he was in Washington, D.C.

It should come as little surprise that the state’s business often is conducted from outside Louisiana’s borders.

Jindal, who is flirting with a presidential run, spent about 165 days — or 45 percent — of 2014 in places other than Louisiana. In 2013, he was gone about 74 days.

Only one of those trips seems to have been for official state business — an economic development foray to Asia.

What records are available show that for the rest of the excursions, Jindal attended an Army-Navy football game; talked up the reality television show “Duck Dynasty”; raised money and campaigned for more than a dozen GOP candidates; spoke at a couple of conferences sponsored by the Koch brothers and several other political events; tended to America Next, the group he formed to comment on national policies; visited casino magnate and GOP funder Sheldon Adelson; and even attended an event for Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, in suburban Detroit.

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[racecar]

1. given the state of louisiana politics, this means little to nothing

it's true that jindal will never ever come close to being president, but pretending to campaign for it is a nice way to make money

after that, he'll go back to louisiana and run for vitter's senate seat, once vitter becomes governor

wouldn't be a bit surprised if jindal won the senate seat either

once again, give the state of louisiana politics...

[MADem]

2. I suppose he does slightly less damage from a distance...?

I get the sense that he's running for vice president--he likely has been told he's a good bet to add a little "color" and "region" to the ticket.

Mrs. Slocumbe's cat has a better chance of becoming president than he does.

[DFW]

3. That's what I was thinking. I'm sure much of NJ is happy when Christie is in Tibet. n/t