Amid cries of no more fat cat meals or tickets to sporting events and concerts, the governor is dealing with a ticket controversy within his own office."Gonna".
9NEWS has learned that Timmy Teeple [sic], the governor's chief of staff, asked for and received three free tickets to the popular Hannah Montana concert in New Orleans. Regular ticket prices ranged from $26 to $66. Teeple's [sic] tickets were for the governor's suite inside the New Orleans Arena. We had trouble getting a direct answer from the governor, when we asked him Thursday afternoon about the situation.
Jim Shannon: What does it say when you're talking about all this ethics and ethics reform, and not very long ago, your chief of staff received three tickets to a very popular concert in New Orleans?
Gov. Bobby Jindal: Jim, again, bottom line. We're gonna follow the law like everybody else....
All in good time, I guess. Forgotston mocks Jindal's "leadership by example", and asks "When will the governor and his own staff live up to Jindal’s proposed standards for others?"
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Also, the T-P recently noticed something which seems like a significant omission in Jindal's proposed financial disclosure legislation:
A showdown is looming over whether members of the governor's executive staff -- who work directly in the governor's office and not for any free-standing state agency -- are included in whatever new financial disclosure requirements lawmakers might adopt during the special session. The staff of more than 100 people, including several high-profile aides in the governor's inner circle, is not included in the version of House Bill 1 by Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Algiers, that will come before the full lower chamber today or Friday. And Tucker, an ally of Gov. Bobby Jindal, said he believes any amendment to include all or part of the executive staff members would be out of order.
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More YRHT coverage on CNP member Teepell here.
