One is a Sunday school teacher who sells piping to oil companies and represents a state House district in Lake Charles.
Another is a business consultant who has four small children and represents a district in Metairie.
The third is a real-estate developer in Mandeville with a bone-crushing handshake who represents a district in St. Tammany Parish.
Together, these three Republicans lead a conservative movement that has gained force in the Louisiana House of Representatives by calling out Gov. Bobby Jindal as a big spender.
The group, known as the Fiscal Hawks, will begin to flex its muscles again after Jindal releases a $24.7 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2013 that, to the Fiscal Hawks’ dismay, is kept in balance by $424 million in accounting gimmicks.
The Fiscal Hawks note that Jindal has had to cut the budget midway through the fiscal year during each of his years as governor because the administration overestimated how much money it would have. The cut in December was $166 million. The Fiscal Hawks blame the accounting gimmicks for the midyear cuts, which they further oppose because the governor, not the Legislature, gets to make them.
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Rep. Cameron Henry, the business consultant from Metairie, was more blunt.
“No, he’s not a true conservative on fiscal matters,” Henry said of Jindal. “It’s not fiscally responsible to spend one-time money on recurring expenses. It’s not fiscally responsible or constitutionally allowed to have contingencies or one-time money in the state budget.”
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