David Vitter, John Bel Edwards both seek to reject Jindal's plan to plug $500 million deficit
Both candidates for governor are urging the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to reject Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan for plugging the state’s $500 million deficit this week.
But neither Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards nor Republican U.S. David Vitter has offered up an alternate plan for state lawmakers to consider, and the clock is ticking. The state has 30 days to come up with a solution that rebalances spending with available revenue.
The budget committee meets Friday morning. Before Jindal’s proposals can be put into place, legislators must approve much of the plan, which relies on nearly $150 million in mostly health care-related cuts, $28.2 million from the state’s rainy day fund, sweeps of unused dollars and an infusion of new money from lawsuit settlements. Jindal’s administration has noted that it managed to spare higher education and public safety from the threat of deep cuts.
Vitter and Edwards argue that the proposal is not good enough.
“It’s more of the same,” Vitter said on the steps of the Capitol in Baton Rouge on Thursday. “It doesn’t address any of the core issues that we face as a state fiscally.”
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I was busy with my brother yesterday since he is preparing to go to Georgia and Tennessee next week. We had a good meal and watched some high school football over in the next town away from where I live.
I'm hopeful that Edwards is going to be able to pull out this race. The poll numbers show a significant difference between Vitter and him so it would be a surprise if Vitter could overcome the margin between them, but I'm concerned that if it is close that the election could be stolen.
And as far as wardrobe malfunctions are concerned, the pertinent question is who picks out Vitter's diapers? Depends. 
Although those socks are but ugly and I could never grasp why any man would wear brown shoes with a gray suit. Of course I rarely wore brown slacks either after working as a pizza delivery driver for Mr. Gatti's while I was in college. I'll wear almost any other college, but yellow or brown because it reminds me of something found in a diaper.