A soft money organization that poured over $224,000 into Iowa TV ads during the month of June favorable to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal had its website go offline yesterday — the same day that Jindal announced his candidacy.
Continue readingLouisiana voters kept in the dark on McAllister campaign cash
While state senator Neil Riser and small-business owner Vance McAllister are both crafting their campaign rhetoric to target LA-05's conservative base, the McAllister campaign's failure to file its financial information with the FEC means voters still have no inkling as to who is bankrolling his election efforts.
Continue readingA Long Time Coming
Governor Bobby Jindal swept into Louisiana's top job with a pledge to clean up the notoriously corrupt state and has made good by spending his political capital on the passage of sweeping ethics reforms set to permanently change the culture of the Bayou State. Jindal's arguments for the need for rapid ethics changes centered on the need to encourage businesses to invest in the state without requiring them to stuff the right person's pockets. But the part that most sticks out for us at Sunlight is this:
“This is huge,” said D. W. Hunt, a veteran lobbyist at the Capitol. “This is a sea change. This will seriously, dramatically change things. The meta-theme is the transparency.”
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