…and yes, we plan on dragging this out until July 8! Governor PBJ (my new favorite nick name…get it? Piyush Bobby Jindal!) had a nice little press conference yesterday from which we can gather the following gems:
“I would probably be the most popular person in modern polling history if I did that (veto the bill), but I don’t want to give the Legislature any excuse to slow down our reforms.”
-Governor Bobby Jindal
Now, every sane person who heard/read this should say the same thing: Huh? Note to Melissa Sellers: if you want Bobby to keep copping out of the veto, fine…but for goodness’ sake, please re-write his responses. They make less and less sense as the days go by…
Bobby also made a trip up to Shreveport for the ceremonial signing of SB 87, which is the bill everyone should be really happy about but we’re all just too pissed off about the pay raise to care. Thanks to Moon Griffon, about 15-20 protestors showed up holding signs that read “VETO PAY RAISE…YOU PROMISED” and “VETO, and represent the people who cast their vote for you” (Check out the Shreveport Times pics). But the picture below is my absolute favorite:
Now THAT is classic.
Moving on to other news, State Representative Regina Ashford Barrow has been making news…or rather, her son has. James Barrow, the 21-year-old son of the Representative, was arrested last week in connection with the fatal shooting of Brent Cole, a church musician from DeQuincy. One of Mr. Barrow’s friends was arrested too…Michael Smith, Jr., 20-years-old.
James Barrow
Michael Smith, Jr.
Brent Cole
The wonderful thing about this story, though, is that Barrow’s bond was set, at the request of James Barrow’s family (aka, Representative Barrow and company…) at $100K, while his friend Mr. Smith’s bond was set at $250K. Hm. Too bad for Smith that his mommy isn’t a legislator too. Then, on Friday, Barrow gets released from prison and put under house arrest under certain conditions; one of those being that he has to submit to random drug tests. Well, he flunked. Yesterday, in fact. So now they’re both back in prison. Story developing…
Only In Louisiana... 
