Bobby Jindal is the poster boy for the radical assault on everything that belongs to the public.
He has attacked public education, public hospitals, public higher education, and anything else that is in the public sector. He wants to outsource, give away, rent, lease, or sell whatever he can at bargain prices to the corporate sector.
A few weeks ago, he released his tax reform plan, in which he eliminates the personal income tax and the corporate tax and pays for the shrinking public sector by raising sales taxes. Even high school textbooks explain that this is the most regressive form of taxation and hits the poor hardest.
His poll ratings have dropped from 61% to only 38% in the past year.
The public is not as dumb as he thought.
The only way to protect the public sector from corporate raiders is to inform and awaken the public.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Interesting.
I completely agree with your last statement. Public ignorance is the enabler allowing corporate hands to meddle in education. It is very good to see the scales tip the other way in Louisiana.
Last I heard Jindal’s rating was only 31%, down from 38%. Plus now one of his PACS is putting out public service announcements in prime time saying that the groups fighting the proposal are “special interest lobbyists”. He is highly pissed because two groups of ministers, separately and not involved with each other, protested on the courthouse steps and presented a letter last week. Interestingly one was a mostly white interfaith, suburban group and the other a mostly black urban group.
Well, the legislature starts next week. Patricia Smith looks very determined. She is easy to spot in pictures with legislators and is Baton Rouge based. Black lady with orange hair. She was on the Education Committee last year fighting hard against Bobby’s bills along with John Bel Edwards who is a Democrat from Amite considering a run for Governor. Amite borders between Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes. Tangi is the parish fighting so hard against the voucher law with an argument that it interferes with their desgregation order. I suggest Edwards would be a good candidate to support.
My prayer is that they find a way to impeach Jindal. That would effectively end his political career and prevent his plague from growing.
Yes, the public is waking up, just as I knew they would.