The governor wants it his way or no way because any plan that does not have two districts running south from Shreveport and Monroe would imperil the re-election prospects of the region's two Republican congressmen, and, worse, would degrade Jindal's national standing in the GOP.
That was the reason, more than his affinity for north Louisiana, why Jindal early-on committed to the congressional delegation's plan to preserve the northern districts and protect all incumbents, except for rookie GOP Congressman Jeff Landry of New Iberia, the lone dissenter.
I can never decide what's worse about Bobby Jindal's obsession with his "national standing in the GOP." Is it his blatant neglect of his duty to (and, I know, don't laugh) responsibly govern the state of Louisiana? Or is it his delusional sense of his own national importance? Outside of Jindal and his own circle, who in Republican politics actually takes him seriously anymore? I mean, isn't PBJ even possessed of the political self-awareness necessary to understand that he's no Donald Trump?
Anyway, despite the height at which the bar is set for delusional megalomania, you do have to give the Jindal team some credit for trying.
Timmy Teepell, self-proclaimed “Road Scholar” and on-again, off-again Chief of Staff for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, has finally revealed what the fight over the I-20 district is actually about: Nancy Pelosi. Quoting from The Town Talk:
“I don’t want to give Pelosi a vote,” Teepell said. “We don’t think it makes sense to have one horizontal district that goes across the top” of the state “because a district like that just becomes another vote for Pelosi.
“Pelosi did a number on us the last time she was speaker,” Teepell said.
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