Bobby Jindal in The Party's Over, by Charlie Crist

On Energy & Oil: BP oil spill: $350M plan to dredge sand for barrier islands

Jindal kept complaining about what Washington hadn't done. "We've been fighting this oil for over a month now," he said. "Too often, we've found the response to be too little, too late."

He demanded the Army Corps of Engineers approve his $350 million plan to use dredged sand to rebuild the state's barrier islands as a natural buffer against the advancing oil, an idea environmental experts were calling harebrained.

Source: The Party's Over, by Charlie Crist, p.252-253 Feb 4, 2014

The above quotations are from The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat by Charlie Crist. Click here for other excerpts from The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat by Charlie Crist. Click here for other excerpts by Bobby Jindal. Click here for other excerpts by other Governors.
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