AIGHT, it's on! by: ryan Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 16:30:39 PM CDT Tonight, y'all ... the FIRST televised debate of the campaign season for the Governor's Race. It's going to be televised, starting at 7 PM on LPB/PBS. Scheduled to attend are Democrats Foster Campbell and Walter Boasso, Independent John Georges, and Republican "Bobby" Jindal. If you are in the Shreveport area, Foster Campbell's campaign is inviting folks to watch the debate at their Shreveport HQ, located at 520 Spring Street, at the corner of Spring and Milan. I am unaware at this time of any such gathering of Boasso folks, Georges folks and Jindal folks. The debate is expected to last one hour, and should be entertaining at the least. I look forward to hearing what "Bobby" has to say about coastal restoration and insurance, two of the issues he has thus far avoided like the plague, other than to give the usual blather about how we need to restore our coasts, and the difficulties that Louisianans are facing with their insurance companies. Hopefully, one of the candidates will pin him down on those two issues. ryan :: AIGHT, it's on! Tags: Walter Boasso, John Georges, "Bobby" Jindal, LA-GOV, louisiana, 2007, Foster Campbell, (All Tags) Print Friendly View Send As Email AIGHT, it's on! | 3 comments by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment A lot depends on the Debate! (0.00 / 0) It is important for at least one of the non-Jindal candidates to come out blazing.  Jindal has to be put against the wall and forced to actually give his position on issues.  The TV and radio stations will pick up excerpts from the debate and put it on the air during the next week or so.  If Jindal's positions on issues are a little goofy, so much the better. I believe it will be either Campbell or Georges who really go after Jindal. Boasso probably has 20 % or so of the vote locked up so he doesn't have quite the pressure on him that the other two do. Campbell doesn't have the money the others have so this is a great free opportunity for him.  Georges' campaign is off to a somewhat slow start so this is an opportunity to get it on a fast track.  I read somewhere that Jindal is most concerned about Georges. Even though the TV audience may be relatively small because the debate is on public TV, the election could ride on this debate. At last, Jindal smoked out into the open!! by: van cook @ Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 23:20:50 PM UTC by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment All Three Non-Jindal Candidates looked O.K. in the Debate. (0.00 / 0) The debate has come and gone and I believe it showed that Campbell, Boasso, and Georges are, at least, equal to Jindal.  Jindal made the mistake of supporting the teaching of creation theory in school science.  Of course, in Louisiana, many will support him on the issue.  But can you imagine Louisiana being more of a laughing stock than it already is?  If we force Louisiana kids to learn creationism as science, even the most backward countries will laugh at us. But, apparently, Jindal does not worry about any of this.  As long as he can make George Bush and Rush Limbaugh happy, he does not care what others think. Jindal has now backed out of one of the two remaining debates.  I believe he will also be a no-show for the final debate.  A wise move on his part!  Jindal's best chance is to hide from the people! by: van cook @ Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 16:06:26 PM UTC by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment DailyKos: Illegal Jindal Campaign Coordination (0.00 / 0) DailyKos links to this bluegrass report:  Both the Fletcher (KY-Gov) and Jindal campaigns illegally coordinated with the Republican Governors Association.  The evidence is at the following link: http://www.bluegrass... by: Abbevilleian @ Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 22:02:50 PM UTC by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment AIGHT, it's on! | 3 comments

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