Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records

Source: AP

Jindal vetoes bill to open oil spill records
By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press Writer


BATON ROUGE, La. -- Gov. Bobby Jindal rejected a bill Friday that would have required him to make public and to preserve all his office's documents involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

In his veto letter, the governor said the legislation would have hurt the state's position in future litigation against BP PLC, the oil giant that leased the rig which exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing the disaster.

"This bill would allow BP and other parties with potential liability to the state to obtain information retained by any state agency responding to this tragic event," Jindal wrote, saying such access could jeopardize the state's position in seeking legal remedy for the spill's damage.

The Senate sponsor of the public records provision said Friday night that Jindal's veto was expected. He noted that the governor has repeatedly fought attempts to require preservation and open most of his office's records to public scrutiny.

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Where is the Clarity, the Truth, the Honesty??

His excuses are LAME...

A BP house boy

The Alfred Newman look alike is gonna be toast if he has Oval aspirations

Is he helping or hurting?

wanted, but he chose to complain that Obama wasn't providing them. Plus other things, I'm sure.

To insure protection of the records would hinder the state's position in further litigation

That doesn't make a lick of sense

Madoff thought he was managing his own money. Jindal thinks that his own interests are the state's interests. Etc.

we have to burn the village to save it

Criminal

yeah right, he's too busy propping up the good governor and the rest of the Louisiana politicians. They blanket his show every night.

Booby Jindal is a

On so many levels. Ive said it once and stand by my last position, Hes covered in oil and his intrests are exactly that. Even if there made public its asserted it could be at BPs advantage HUhhhhhhhhhh????? Maybe someone could explain that logic, I cant.

If LA filed a lawsuit, couldn't BP request/subpoena whatever records it wanted in defense of the lawsuit? And if they can, then what is the point to Jindal protecting those records? (Unless he is just preventing LA voters from knowing he is somehow complicit?)

I ask because I really don't understand how his actions protect LA.

on the bright side, maybe they can use all those shreddings to soak up some of the oil.

I am always suspicious of politicians when they fight to prevent the public from knowing something the public already has the right to know.

stay under wraps? I betcha....I just betcha......