Yes, Bobby Jindal Can Find Small Louisiana Towns on a Map

Senator Mary Landrieu embellishes about how she goes where other politicians won't.

US Republican Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013.
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By David Weigel

December 5, 2014 at 10:28 PM UTC

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In today's story about Louisiana's final elections of 2014, I quote Senator Mary Landrieu on what she did for the town of Ferriday. “For a decade, they had brown water comin’ out of their taps,” said Landrieu at a rally. “I don’t think Governor Jindal showed up once. Did he ever show up? Not one time, not one time, did our governor go to this town that has 5000 people, that had brown water comin’ out of the tap."

This came as a surprise to the office of Jindal. Sure, he's beginning his final gubernatorial year at a low ebb of popularity. But he can find Ferriday on a map. In 2011, Jindal scrambled the Louisiana National Guard to deliver water to Ferriday during a shortage. It was not his only trip to Ferriday.