a little info on the current Governor, "Bobby" Jindal:
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On October 20, 2007, Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana, winning a four-way race with 54% of the vote. At age 36, Jindal became the youngest current governor in the United States. He also became the first non-white to serve as governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, and the first elected Indian American governor in U.S. history.
Piyush Jindal (pronounced /ˈdʒɪndəl/) was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to recently arrived Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. His father left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in 1970.[2] His mother, Raj Jindal, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor.[3] According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name "Bobby" from the character Bobby Brady after watching The Brady Bunch television series at age four. He has been known by that name ever since?as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer?though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.[4]
Jindal was a Hindu, but converted to Catholicism in high school.[5] He has also offered his religious testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations.[6] He attended public school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School and graduated when he was 17. Following high school, Jindal enrolled, and eventually graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy where he was a member of the Society of the Pacifica House. Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law and was accepted by Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, he chose to pursue a political career. He received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.
After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 500 companies.
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^ that guy is the Republican's little helper right now though....
A funny point about Bobby, people seem to think he looks Creole. So visually, he sort of fits in. The guy is Indian from India, but well he looks like he could be from here, so they've sort of accepted him. Plus he has this great Louisiana accent and family man commercials. I'd be willing to bet some old people even do think he is Creole, with the name "Bobby." Do you think he looks enough like Ray Nagin?
He did much better than that jerk Blanco that was Gov before him during this past hurricane season's evacuations and disasters. She made everyone (including GW) wait 24 hours to decide how she wanted to handle the hurricane when Air Force One was on the ground here. A real loser. All she did was make abortions illegal when/if Roe vs Wade is overturned. That is her legacy.