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HOW MANY DEBATES WILL BOBBY MISS?
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Julie
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Aug. 16,
2007
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HOW MANY DEBATES WILL BOBBY
MISS?
Jindal Runs From
Opportunities to Debate
Opponents
BATON ROUGE - Bobby Jindal has missed four
gubernatorial forums to date and won’t be
showing up to a fifth set for Monday, Aug. 20,
hosted by the International Association of
Drilling Contractors in
The forums Bobby missed
were:
Crime Fighters and the
Louisiana Chemical Association
(Jindal submitted a video) – May 23 –
Every Child Matters – Aug. 13 -
During the 2003 race for governor,
Bobby willingly participated in not less than
six candidate debates/forums – some televised
statewide direct into the living rooms of
voters across
Now that Bobby has a mere 2 ½ years
of Congressional experience under his belt –
his longest stint at any one job yet - he runs
scared from pointed questions, contentious
issues and probing inquiries about his voting
record in Washington.
The question from voters should be
WHY? If Bobby is proud of his record, excited
about his plans for the state and confident of
his leadership skills, why doesn’t he stack all
of this experience toe to toe with the other
candidates and allow the voters to judge for
themselves?
“Bobby is campaigning as if he has
a lock on this election. His stops around the
state are nothing more than tightly coordinated
photo ops delivering his canned messages to a
staged crowd. Bobby believes that the slick
delivery of a vaporous message is the key to
win this election,” said Louisiana Democratic
Party Chairman Chris
Whittington.
“Bobby’s platform for the state is
nothing more than smoke and mirrors. When the
smoke clears, Bobby is left standing with
nothing to offer the people of
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