In side-by-side newspaper stories last week, former Gov. Buddy Roemer insisted that his $100 limit on individual contributions to his presidential committee is not unrealistic, while Gov. Bobby Jindal insisted that $250,000 contributions to his wife’s education foundation from big companies having business before state government are not unethical. Whether either or both are right will be up to the voters in their next elections, writes columnist John Maginnis, but the first blush of consensus seems to be that Roemer’s limit on contributions won’t help his campaign very much while the Jindal foundation’s lack thereof will do little to hurt the governor’s. Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
