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To: carranza2 who wrote (9816)	9/29/2003 12:59:19 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793781

Was it you who first brought this outstanding candidate to the thread's attention? If so, thanks. His candidacy is much more interesting than what is happening in California. I wonder when the political cable shows will pick up on this guy....

To: carranza2 who wrote (9816)	9/29/2003 4:47:01 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793781

couple of in-depth articles about Jindal, Thanks for the post, C2. What an interesting guy! From a state with a very poor reputation. Please keep us up to date on the campaign.

To: carranza2 who wrote (9816)	9/30/2003 3:32:56 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793781

Here is some good news on Jindal. Washington Wrap ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could Louisiana Break New Ground?: While one in five Louisiana voters still are undecided about who they’ll vote for in this Saturday’s gubernatorial election, one candidate has unexpectedly positioned himself pretty well. Bobby Jindal, a Republican first-generation Indian-American, is ahead in the polls and in the money race. Jindal's standing has shocked some political observers in a state that once featured former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke as a gubernatorial candidate and hasn’t had a non-white governor since 1872, when Lt. Gov. P.B.S. Pinchback, whose father was African-American, was elevated after the impeachment of Gov. Henry Clay Warmoth. "Louisiana is still a racist state," political consultant Raymond Strother told the AP recently, explaining why he thought it "unlikely that the moderately dark-skinned Jindal could get elected." But Jindal, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar, former state health secretary under current Gov. Mike Foster, and former Bush administration health care adviser, is appealing to the David Duke conservatives by campaigning against gun control and promoting the teaching of "creationism" in schools. The son of Indian immigrants also says he's against affirmative action. "I’m against all quotas, all set-asides," Jindal said at a recent candidates’ forum. That stance may play well with the conservatives he’s wooing, but does nothing to help him among blacks, who make up 30 percent of Louisiana’s voting age population. "I think Bobby Jindal doesn’t get any support in the black community because he’s trying to out-conservative the conservatives," state Sen. Donald Cravins, who is black, told the AP. Recent polls show Jindal at the top along with Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco, though neither of them get near the 50 percent threshold that's needed to avoid a run-off. Democratic Attorney General Richard Ieyoub is consistently in third place, trailing the two either closely or by 10 points, depending on the poll. Jindal's strength has surprised even some of his former co-workers. "I wished the guy luck, but I never thought he’d go anywhere," one Bush administration colleague told Time magazine. In fund-raising, Jindal is sitting on $1.4 million, more than twice the amount Ieyoub, his nearest competitor in the money race, has. Former U.S. Rep. Buddy Leach, D-La., is self-funding his race with more than $6 million, reports the New Orleans Times-Picayune, however, he’s been way behind in the polls. So far, the top seven candidates have spent $18 million, including Leach’s $6 million. As fot the one in five voters who are still undecided, they’ll have plenty of opportunities to figure it out, with a blitz of campaign ads and two more debates still to come. A run-off between the top two candidates would be held on November 15 if neither gets a majority on Saturday. cbsnews.com