New Ethics Board learns limitations

(Bobby Jindal's new ethics board)

www.2theadvocate.com/news/30731584.html?showAll=y&c=y

The law, pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal and key legislators, takes away the board’s judicial authority to decide whether people have violated state ethics and other laws it polices.The Ethics Board is left to investigate and decide whether charges should be filed. Ethics attorneys become prosecutors who try cases before a panel of administrative law judges hired by a governor’s appointee.

I am glad that the nation loves Bobby Jindal and his ethics reform but in reality these reforms are a joke. It is my understanding that there are a limited number of administrative judges and not nearly enough to handle the load that will be created once the Ethics Board starts charging individual with ethics violations and referring them to these judges.

To paraphrase C. B. Forgotson, with he, he, ha, ha Louisiana new ethics reform we have the nations toughest laws with no one to enforce them. Louisianan is open for business!!!