This is the third major revelation in the last week to undermine Bobby Jindal's claim to have effectively managed Louisiana's response to BP's oil spill:
Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records
For more than two months, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has made it clear that he considers the response of the federal government and BP to the gulf oil leak a failure on many fronts.
But elected officials in Louisiana and members of the public seeking details on how Mr. Jindal and his administration fared in their own response to the disaster are out of luck: late last week the governor vetoed an amendment to a state bill that would have made public all records from his office related to the oil spill.
The measure was proposed by Senator Robert Adley, a Republican, and easily passed the Democrat-controlled Legislature. He told the Associated Press that the veto was a “black eye” on the state. “This governor has opposed transparency for the three years he’s been in office,” he said.
According to the New York Times, Jindal claims he vetoed the measure to strengthen the state's position if it pursues legal action against BP. But given that the documents Jindal has now sealed to the public would be discoverable in any such case, his argument is transparently bunk.
Last week, CBS revealed that despite Jindal's attacks on the Obama administration for not delivering enough resources, Jindal was holding up the deployment of 5,000 National Guard troops authorized by the Obama administration. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that experts at the state and federal level had panned Jindal's response, saying the state was ill-prepared for the spill and that Jindal's attacks on the Federal response smacked of political calculation designed to distract attention from his own failures.
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