Louisiana’s colleges and universities are being abused by Bobby Jindal’s irresponsible budget priorities almost as much as the students who attend them. While the governor’s fiscal house of cards is tumbling down, the sound of the can hitting the end of the road that he has been kicking it down is reverberating throughout the state. I know these funding cuts are having unpleasant effects here at LSU, Louisiana’s proud flagship university and one of the best in the country. This upsets me.
Still the governor and his allies, especially my opponents in the race for governor this year, have not learned their lesson. They continue to play with the very fire that led to the 90 percent tuition increases that have occurred since Bobby Jindal took office.
I am concerned about how these kinds of shell games have affected LSU and will affect it even more. While Bobby Jindal failed to prioritize our higher education institutions and the students like you that attend them, I actually led a bipartisan coalition to pass the only balanced budget, the only budget that largely spared higher education, in the last seven years.
John Bel Edwards
Candidate for Governor, 2015