Bobby Jindal

Monroe News-Star: On this day, shared vision

Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal’s “thank-you tour” stop in this city was as much about politics good politics as it was about thanks.

That’s why several hundred people who greeted Jindal at The Atrium in Monroe on Tuesday left with wide smiles. His campaign completed, the state’s newly elected chief executive was both relaxed with his gathered supporters this is Jindal country, Saturday’s vote proved yet intent on making his campaign message a reality.

The message is this: Louisiana’s image will change because its public ethics will change.

There was no mistaking Jindal’s determi nation on that count. He promised on the campaign trail a special session to enact new and stronger ethics laws, he said, and he and his supporters will deliver “the gold standard for ethics right here in Louisiana.”

“We can change; we must change; we will change,” he told the gathered faithful, a mantra that was part of his campaign pitch and is part of his persona. The crowd chanted those well-worn words right along with him, and they should.
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It was a day to set aside old differences, to dispel cynicism, to think of Louisiana not for its weaknesses but for its strengths.

It was a day to step inside from the damp and the cold, to think of our blessed state not for what it is, but for what it might become.

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