[StBernard] Does Bobby Have Any Shame?

[Westley Annis]

Does Bobby Have Any Shame?

Shrugs Off Responsibility as DHH Head while Calling McNiece a Liar

 

For Immediate Release
September 20, 2007

Baton Rouge: Bobby Jindal, who as Secretary of Health and Hospitals, was
successfully sued for personally and arbitrarily cutting off Medicaid Funds
for John McNiece is scrambling to protect himself by calling John's sister
Lynn a liar. 

In an ad attempting to respond to Lynn McNiece's story of how Jindal "threw
her brother out on the street," Jindal sinks to a new low. Specifically, the
ad says:

". . .now they're lying about Bobby's service to Louisiana."

Here are the facts:

 John McNiece, having been tested and diagnosed with severe mental illness,
had been receiving Medicaid funding for his placement in a nursing facility
for eight years. Jindal, ignoring Federal law and the results of testing by
the state Office of Mental Health, personally and arbitrarily cut off those
funds. 

In the suit, Jindal argued that he had the power to override the results of
OMH testing and Federal law and personally cut off Medicaid funding for
thousands of Louisiana residents. The court ruled that Jindal broke the law
and ordered him to reinstate Mr. McNiece's Medicaid funds as well as pay for
attorney's fees and costs. 

"Bobby Jindal cut off John McNiece's Medicaid funding, kicked him out onto
the street and now he is calling his sister a liar," Walter Boasso,
(D-Arabi), Democratic Candidate for Governor said. "Does Mr. Jindal have any
shame? Does he have a heart? 

"This is a new low, even for Mr. Jindal. What does he have to say to Ms.
McNiece other than to call her a liar and shrug off the entire thing as a
"sad case?" Boasso said. ""If Mr. Jindal cared half as much for what he did
to Mr. McNiece as he does for his own political ambition he would get on his
knees and beg her forgiveness." 

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