(AP) — Out of the spotlight since his second failed bid for a U.S. Senate seat, Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy has seized an opportunity to regain center stage, and he’s upstaging Gov. Bobby Jindal and lawmakers in the process.Kennedy has used his appointment to the Commission on Streamlining Government — and his chairmanship of an advisory group to that commission — to seize a microphone and blast his ideas across the state. He’s talked to editorial boards, spoken to group luncheons and shared his thoughts on talk radio stations around Louisiana.Some of the ideas are new proposals for shrinking government spending, some are recycled ones and some are just plain strange. But they’ve gotten Kennedy front and center in a debate that usually belongs to the governor and the lawmakers who hold the purse strings.
 
 
 
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