Reason.tv: Louisiana Commissioner of Administration Angele Davis on Streamlining Government

Angele Davis was a guest at Reason Weekend in New Orleans where she sat down with Reason's Len Gilroy to talk about her efforts to streamline the Louisiana state government.

"We are focused on creative and sustainable solutions that will basically look for opportunities to realign our government's size," says Davis, Commissioner of Administration for the state of Louisiana.

Davis is also the chief financial advisor to Governor Bobby Jindal and serves on the Commission on Streamlining Government. With the goal of reducing the size of the state government and making it more more accountable, transparent and efficient, the commission has made over 200 recommendations to governor Jindal, many of which are now being implemented.

Reason Weekend is an annual conference held by Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason.tv. This year's event took place in New Orleans from April 15-18.

Approximately 30 minutes.

Shot by Dan Hayes. Edited by Paul Detrick.

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[sage]

Dave Weigel resigned! Dave Weigel resigned!

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[smz]

this is what he looks like in color? no wonder his girlfriend was AWOL.

[.]

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[sage]

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[Fluffy]

I leave for 10 minutes and Weigel loses his job?

And it's all over the web like it's a big story or something. When did Weigel turn into such a big deal?

The Post should give me his gig. Or let me and John guest-blog in rotation. RIGHT WING CAGE MATCH OF DEATH, BITCHES

[Warty]

Fuck that. If the Post had any balls, they'd let me metal the fuck out of Dave's former blog.

[Maverick]

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[Episiarch]

Why did he have to resign? This seems like one hell of a tempest in a teapot, but also probably is a sign of how incestuous and inbred the media industry is. I mean, who gives a shit?

I'd like to see you and John go at it, Fluffy, but you have to let shriek in there as your third member, representing the insanity wing.

[Fluffy]

The Huffington Post, which I guess is a paper of record of sorts now, says that the WAPO leadership was annoyed because they set out to hire a conservative and discovered that Weigel is a libertarian-leaning progressive. Their reporting, not my evaluation; Weigel is a cosmotarian as far as I'm concerned, and I'm cool with cosmotarians.

[Episiarch]

I thought the whole point of his column was that he wasn't a conservative, but was going amongst them to gain an inside perspective? Are the WaPo editors so dumb that they thought Weigel was conservative? I mean, how dumb or tone-deaf would they have to be to think that? Hmm, maybe you shouldn't answer that.

[Fluffy]

Gee, WAPO is run by dumbasses? Who-da thunk it.

[Fluffy]

Oops, I forgot that I was trying to get the gig replacing Weigel. I guess that's over now. Oh well.

[Pro Libertate]

I think he laughed once when someone at the paper said that Obama should be given dictatorial powers.

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they set out to hire a conservative and discovered that Weigel is a libertarian-leaning progressive

But he checked the Conservative box on his application!

[Fluffy]

I guess he thought he could "pass".

"Mama always said I had conservative hair," - Dave Weigel

If Law and Order wasn't off the air they could do an episode where a reporter at the Post kills someone before they are outed for lying on their job application. But then it turns out that the guy's ex-wife really did it, because she didn't want anyone to know she used to be married to a cosmotarian.

[Grumpy Old DA]

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[Episiarch]

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[Wegie]

It should be Or let John and me....
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[sage]

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