I Heart My Louisiana Pols

From TPMMuckraker:

Gov. Bobby Jindal will give $10,000 in contributions that he received from accused fraud attorney Scott Rothstein (and from his law firm) to a victims' compensation fund once one is created, says Kyle Plotkin, the governor's press secretary.

The move comes just four hours after TPMmuckraker first reported the news of the donations from Rothstein. The money was given at a pre-game reception held in Jindal's honor before the UF-LSU game in Florida in October 2008. Rothstein was one of nine co-chairs for the event.

Read the rest of the story about our governor who so frequently travels the country to raise funds for his re-election (heh heh) campaign. And it seems that Rothstein held another fundraiser for the guv last year. Rothstein lives in Florida. Why this burning desire to re-elect Jindal as governor of Louisiana?



And then there's something about Mary (Landrieu, that is).

Also from TPMMuckraker:

The campaign of Sen. Mary Landrieu violated campaign-finance rules by making an unexplained donation of over $25,000 to the US Treasury, a good-government group is alleging. The campaign calls the payment routine, but one expert says that's "bullshit."

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington plans to file a complaint with the FEC, charging that the $25,300 donation, made in August 2008, ran afoul of the agency's regulations governing the handling of contributions of questionable legality, the group's executive director, Melanie Sloan, told TPMmuckraker.

Now I don't fully understand this story, but even a know-nothing like me thinks it's strange for a senator to make a large donation to the US Treasury Department. There IS something about Mary.