Submission + - Gov. Bobby Jindall Attacks Volcano Monitoring (cnn.com)
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's swipe at federal spending to monitor volcanoes has the mayor of one city in the shadow of Mount St. Helens fuming.
"Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?" Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. "We have one that's very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently."
Jindal singled out a $140 million appropriation for the U.S. Geological Survey as an example of questionable government spending during the GOP response to President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night.
Perhaps the governor would be less enthusiastic about cutting funds for hurricane tracking? Is this truly the "rising star" of the GOP?"