{"id":1381,"date":"2015-06-23T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2015-06-23T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:21:40","slug":"shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/23\/shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Your State in the Foot; or, Who\u2019s your best friend?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resuming this dormant thread, Louisiana appears to have upset IBM, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wafb.com\/story\/29366301\/ibm-cancels-ribbon-cutting-because-of-gov-jindals-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Moreau @<\/a> <em><strong>WAFB<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\"> <\/span>IBM has cancelled Monday&#8217;s ribbon-cutting for its new National Service Center in Baton Rouge because of Governor Bobby Jindal&#8217;s executive order. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hours after\u00a0lawmakers voted down the legislation on May 19, effectively killing it, Jindal issued an executive order with language that mirrored the &#8220;Marriage and Conscience Act&#8221; that was authored by Rep. Mike\u00a0Johnson, R-Bossier City. The Jindal power play was met with an avalanche of negative statements against Louisiana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the struggle between the far Right and Big Business for the soul of the GOP continues.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/06\/22\/1395571\/-IBM-cancels-Louisiana-ribbon-cutting-due-to-Bobby-Jindal-s-anti-LGBT-executive-order?detail=email#\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Eleveld @<\/a> <em><strong>The Daily Kos)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resuming this dormant thread, Louisiana appears to have upset IBM, according to Andre Moreau @ WAFB: IBM has cancelled Monday&#8217;s ribbon-cutting for its new National Service Center in Baton Rouge because of Governor Bobby Jindal&#8217;s executive order. &#8230; Hours after\u00a0lawmakers voted down the legislation on May 19, effectively killing it, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/23\/shooting-your-state-in-the-foot-or-whos-your-best-friend-ctd-8\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}