Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records

[one_voice]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would have required him to preserve and make public all documents his office handles regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.

Jindal, in the veto released Friday, said the legislation would have hurt the state's position in future litigation against BP PLC. The oil giant leased the rig which exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers.

Sen. Robert Adley, the lawmaker who added the public records language into the bill, says Jindal's position makes no sense. Adley called the governor hypocritical for asking BP to release records as he's refusing to release his own.

The Jindal administration has repeatedly fought attempts to open most of his office's records to public scrutiny - or to require preservation of those documents.

http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=12712919


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[Catherina]

1. Make them public now! n/t

[one_voice]

2. kick

[napi21]

3. He's a damn hypocrit through & through! First he refuses any fed $$

from the stimulus because THEY don't need help from the FEDS! Then he accepts it wiwth a fanfare & claims the$$ is from HIM. Second, he screams that the Feds won't give him 6,500 natioal guardd troops to help with this spill, and then the feds OK the troops & Jindal only assign 1,500of them! Now he's hding SOMETHING in his own records!!! I wonder what that might be????

[spanone]

4. bobby is a dick

[Canuckistanian]

5. Can the legislature overrule his veto?

I'm sensing that this is a bad move in light of public sentiment on BP's actions in the Gulf.

[one_voice]

6. Seems like Repugs...

can do/say what they want without much backlash. Bobby was screaming for the fed gov to help, and yet he's only used a fraction of the NG that's available. Now this..and somehow he's portrayed as some kind of hero.

Then you have Barton, saying what he said, as well as Palin, Bachmann etc and NO backlash. I don't know how they get away with this stuff.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Because it never gets reported, that's why

Or even if it does, nobody EVER comments on the craziness.

Except for us, of course.

[Fuzz]

7. His populist 'for the people' stance has always been bullshit.

[Subdivisions]

8. Open the records and let the chips fall where they may! n/t

[provis99]

10. my guess would be that Jindal is a crook.

Given that he's a Louisiana governor, that would not be unusual.

[Historic NY]

11. I believe he may be obstructing justice if a Federal investigation is commenced.