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Double standard for GOP

By MARK BALLARD
Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Published: Mar 12, 2008 - Page: 1A - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

The Republican Governor’s Association, of which Gov. Bobby Jindal is on the four-member executive board, called for New York Gov. Elliott Spitzer to resign because of his associations with a prostitute in Washington, D.C.

Jindal refused to make a similar demand Tuesday of U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who was implicated in a similar scandal.

Jindal co-hosted a Feb. 16 fundraiser for Vitter at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans that raised $430,000.

Jindal did not return requests to answer questions Tuesday ...

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/16587136.html

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Wed Mar-12-08 01:00 AM
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1. Jindal is a partisan hack.

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Wed Mar-12-08 01:03 AM
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2. The price of having principles...

...is that one has to be tougher on oneself.

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