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Bobby Jindal




Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2005
Preceded by David Vitter
Succeeded by Incumbent


Born June 10, 1971 (1971-06-10) (age 36)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse Supriya Jolly Jindal
Religion Roman Catholic
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge) is the Republican Governor-elect of the U.S. state of Louisiana. He is also a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Louisiana's 1st congressional district, where he was elected in 2004 to succeed current U.S. Senator David Vitter. Jindal was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote. He will take his oath as governor on January 14, 2008.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Appointments
3 2003 campaign for Governor
4 Congressman of the first district
5 Governor of Louisiana
6 Positions on selected issues
7 Electoral history
8 References
9 External links
9.1 Articles



Biography
Jindal ) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name Bobby after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since, as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer. Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal.[1]

Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism as a teenager.[2] He has also offered testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations since the beginning of the 2007 campaign season.[3] He attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, he wrote an article for the New Oxford Review claiming he personally witnessed a friend being possessed by a demon.[4] After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.

He is the only Indian-American currently serving in Congress, and the second in congressional history after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat who represented California's 29th District from 1957 to 1963.

He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium."

He was India Abroad Person of the Year in 2005.[5]

In 1997, he married Supriya Jolly (born 1972). The couple has three children, Celia, Shaan, and Slade.

On Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Jindal assisted in delivering his third child when his wife awoke, in labor. The child was born before ambulances had time to respond.[6]


Appointments
In 1995, U.S. Congressman Jim McCrery (R-LA) introduced his former aide (Jindal) to Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr..[7] Foster subsequently appointed Jindal, then aged twenty-four, to be Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals, an agency then representing about 40 percent of the state's budget; he served from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 1999, he was executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. He was also the youngest-ever president of the University of Louisiana System between 1999 and 2001. Newly-elected President George W. Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; he held that post from July 9, 2001[8] to February 21, 2003[9].


2003 campaign for Governor
Jindal came to national prominence during the 2003 election for Governor of Louisiana.

In the jungle primary, Jindal came in first place with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest paper in Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the newly-elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin; and the outgoing Republican governor, Mike Foster. In the second balloting, Jindal faced the outgoing Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.

Political analysts have speculated on myriad explanations for his loss. Some have blamed Jindal for his refusal to answer questions about his record brought up in several advertisements,[10] which the Jindal Campaign called "negative attack ads". Others note that a significant number of conservative Louisianans remain more comfortable voting for a Democrat than for a Republican. Still others have mentioned the race factor, arguing that many voters are uncomfortable voting for a non-white person.

Despite losing the election, the run for governor made Jindal a well known figure on the state's political scene. He formally declared his intention to run again on January 22, 2007 and eventually won the race for governor.


Congressman of the first district
See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2006
A few weeks after the 2003 gubernatorial runoff, Jindal decided to run for Louisiana's 1st congressional district. The incumbent, David Vitter, was running for the Senate seat being vacated by John Breaux. He moved to Kenner to run for the congressional seat. He was endorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party in the primary despite the fact that Mike Rogers, also a Republican, was running for the same seat. The 1st District has been in Republican hands since a 1977 special election and is widely considered to be the most Republican district in Louisiana. Although Democrats have a plurality in registration, the 1st tends to vote for socially conservative candidates. Jindal also had an advantage because his campaign was able to raise over a million dollars very early in the campaign, making it harder for other candidates to effectively raise funds to oppose him. He won with 78 percent of the vote.

He was elected Freshman Class President and appointed to the House Committee on Homeland Security, the House Committee on Resources, and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Furthermore, he was made the Vice-Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks.


Governor of Louisiana
See also: Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2007
On January 22, 2007, Jindal announced his candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in the upcoming election.[11] Polling data showed Congressman Jindal with an early lead. Jindal defeated eleven opponents in the jungle primary held on October 20, 2007, including two prominent Democrats, State Senator Walter Boasso of Chalmette and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell of Bossier City, and an independent businessman, John Georges of New Orleans.

Jindal's 54 percent of the vote was identical to that received by outgoing Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who defeated Jindal in the 2003 gubernatorial general election. Blanco did not seek a second term. Jindal finished with 699,672 ballots. Boasso ran second with 226,364 votes (17 percent). Georges finished with 186,800 (14 percent), and Campbell, who is also a former state senator, ran fourth with 161,425 (12 percent). The remaining candidates collectively polled 3 percent of the vote. Jindall polled pluralities or majorities in sixty-one of the state's sixty four parishes. He lost only in Boasso's St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans and in the two neighboring north Louisiana parishes of Red River and Bienville located south of Shreveport, both of which are historically Democratic. Red River and Bienville instead supported Foster Campbell in the primary. In the 2003 contest with Blanco, Jindal had lost most of the northern parishes.[12]

Meanwhile, Jindal remains a congressman, and he is expected to assume his position as governor when he takes the oath of office on January 12, 2008. At 36, he will be the youngest governor in the United States. He will also be Louisiana's first non-white governor since P. B. S. Pinchback served for 35 days during Reconstruction.[13]


Positions on selected issues
Congressman Jindal has stated that he is "100 percent against abortion, no exceptions"[4]. During his 2003 run for governor he distinguished himself from Kathleen Blanco, who is also pro-life, by stating that he supports an abortion ban without exceptions for the life of the woman, the health of the woman, rape, or incest. His definition of abortion differs from the medical community as it only includes procedures that target the embryo or fetus, a definition that exclude procedures, such as a salpingectomy, that do not target the embryo specifically but may result in what the medical community would call an abortion[citation needed]. He has stated that he would allow emergency contraception, which some pro-life groups consider morally equivalent to abortion.[14] He has voted with the Republican Party on all abortion related issues.[15][16]

As a private citizen, Jindal voted for the "Stelly Tax plan"[citation needed], a referendum named for former state Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles, which swapped some sales taxes for higher income taxes. Whether or not the "Stelly Plan" is giving the desired results is still hotly debated statewide. Early Republican challenger Steve Scalise challenged Jindal on his vote for this tax plan before Scalise dropped out of the congressional race in 2004.

Jindal supported a constitutional amendment banning flag burning[citation needed], and the Real ID Act of 2005[citation needed]. Jindal has an A rating from Gun Owners of America.

He is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee.[17] In 2006, Jindal voted with the Republican Caucus 97% of the time during the 109th Congress.[18] In 2007, Congress.org, a nonpartisan group, ranked Jindal 432 out of 439 in terms of overall effectiveness in the US House during the 110th Congress.

Jindal also supports co-payments in Medicaid.[19]

In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, which prompted the watchdog group Republicans for Environmental Protection to issue him an environmental harm demerit.[20] Jindal's 2006 rating from that organization was -4, among the lowest in Congress. The nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters also censured Jindal for securing passage of H.R. 4761 in the House of Representatives; the group rated his environmental performance that year at 7%, citing anti-environment votes on eleven out of twelve critical issues. Jindal's lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 7%.[21] Despite claims that Congressman Jindal's bill was successful[22] H.R. 4761 was actually replaced by S 3711 (known as the Domenici-Landrieu Fair Share Plan). The Senate version was the actual legislation that was passed by both houses of Congress, word for word, and signed by President Bush.[23]

Jindal is an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Iraq[citation needed]. In 2005, Jindal led other freshman Republican House members in dipping their fingers in purple dye to celebrate the 2005 Iraqi national elections.[citation needed]

Preliminary results the night of the 20 October 2007 election show Jindal with 53.41% of the vote, meaning he is governor-elect without need for a run-off, and will take office in January of 2008.


Electoral history
Governor of Louisiana, 2003

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 4, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 443,389 (33%) Runoff
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 250,136 (18%) Runoff
Richard Ieyoub Democratic 223,513 (16%) Defeated
Claude "Buddy" Leach Democratic 187,872 (14%) Defeated
Others n.a. 257,614 (19%) Defeated

Second Ballot, November 15, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 731,358 (52%) Elected
Bobby Jindal Republican 676,484 (48%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2004

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 2, 2004

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 225,708 (78%) Elected
Roy Armstrong Democratic 19,266 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 42,923 (15%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2006

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 7, 2006

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 130,508 (88%) Elected
David Gereighty Democratic 10,919 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 6,701 (5%) Defeated

Governor of Louisiana, 2007

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 20, 2007

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 699,672 (54%) Elected
Walter Boasso Democratic 226,364 (17%) Defeated
John Georges Independent 186,800 (14%) Defeated
Foster Campbell Democratic 161,425 (12%) Defeated
Others n.a. 23,682 (3%) Defeated


References
^ [1] "He is Piyush, not Bobby," Rediff India Abroad, 16 November 2003
^ Whoriskey, Peter. "Jindal Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor", Washington Post, 2007-10-21. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
^ [2]"Jindal Throttles Back His High-Energy Style," Times Picayune, 13 June 2007
^ [3] "BEATING A DEMON: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare," New Oxford Review, December 1994
^ Bobby Jindal is India Abroad Person of the Year 2005 Rediff, December 16, 2005
^ Rep. Jindal Delivers Son After Wife Wakes Up in Labor Fox News, August 15, 2006
^ "The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal", National Review
^ Biography of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, US Department of Heath and Human Services. c. 2001. Accessed 25 Oct 2007.
^ BOBBY JINDAL ANNOUNCES HE IS STEPPING DOWN AS HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION, US Department of Heath and Human Services. February 13, 2003. Accessed 25 Oct 2007. "Jindal's resignation is effective Feb. 21."

^ Bobby Jindal 2004 Congressional Campaign Website
^ Republicans for Environmental Protection 2006 Scorecard
^ [League of Conservation Voters 2006 National Environmental Scorecard]
^ The hard work pays off
^ U.S. Senate Passes Domenici-Landrieu "Fair Share" Plan in Early Morning 79-to-9 Vote

External links
U.S. Congressman Bobby Jindal, U.S. House site
Bobby Jindal at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
Federal Election Commission ― Bobby Jindal campaign finance reports and data
On the Issues ― Bobby Jindal issue positions and quotes
OpenSecrets.org ― Bobby Jindal campaign contributions
Biography, Voting record, and Interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
Bobby Jindal for Governor, Campaign site

Articles
Little India Interview Little India, December 2004
Bobby Jindal, a whiz kid takes the reigns (sic) of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospital Little India, June 1996
SIFY ― Newsmakers: The People Behind Today's Headlines, 2003 brief profile
Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana ― Profile article from conservative website
Political offices
Preceded by
Kathleen Blanco Governor of Louisiana
scheduled to assume office January 12, 2008 Governor-elect
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
David Vitter Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st congressional district
2005 � present Incumbent
v ? d ? eLouisiana's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators Mary Landrieu (D), David Vitter (R)
Representative(s) Bobby Jindal (R), William J. Jefferson (D), Charles Melancon (D), Jim McCrery (R), Rodney Alexander (R), Richard H. Baker (R), Charles Boustany (R)
All delegations Alabama ? Alaska ? Arizona ? Arkansas ? California ? Colorado ? Connecticut ? Delaware ? Florida ? Georgia ? Hawaii ? Idaho ? Illinois ? Indiana ? Iowa ? Kansas ? Kentucky ? Louisiana ? Maine ? Maryland ? Massachusetts ? Michigan ? Minnesota ? Mississippi ? Missouri ? Montana ? Nebraska ? Nevada ? New Hampshire ? New Jersey ? New Mexico ? New York ? North Carolina ? North Dakota ? Ohio ? Oklahoma ? Oregon ? Pennsylvania ? Rhode Island ? South Carolina ? South Dakota ? Tennessee ? Texas ? Utah ? Vermont ? Virginia ? Washington ? West Virginia ? Wisconsin ? Wyoming ― American Samoa ? District of Columbia ? Guam ? Puerto Rico ? U.S. Virgin Islands


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Bobby Jindal




Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2005
Preceded by David Vitter
Succeeded by Incumbent


Born June 10, 1971 (1971-06-10) (age 36)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse Supriya Jolly Jindal
Religion Roman Catholic
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge) is the Republican Governor-elect of the U.S. state of Louisiana. He is also a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Louisiana's 1st congressional district, where he was elected in 2004 to succeed current U.S. Senator David Vitter. Jindal was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote. He will take his oath as governor on January 14, 2008.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Appointments
3 2003 campaign for Governor
4 Congressman of the first district
5 Governor of Louisiana
6 Positions on selected issues
7 Electoral history
8 References
9 External links
9.1 Articles



Biography
Jindal ) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name Bobby after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since, as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer. Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal.[1]

Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism as a teenager.[2] He has also offered testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations since the beginning of the 2007 campaign season.[3] He attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, he wrote an article for the New Oxford Review claiming he personally witnessed a friend being possessed by a demon.[4] After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.

He is the only Indian-American currently serving in Congress, and the second in congressional history after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat who represented California's 29th District from 1957 to 1963.

He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium."

He was India Abroad Person of the Year in 2005.[5]

In 1997, he married Supriya Jolly (born 1972). The couple has three children, Celia, Shaan, and Slade.

On Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Jindal assisted in delivering his third child when his wife awoke, in labor. The child was born before ambulances had time to respond.[6]


Appointments
In 1995, U.S. Congressman Jim McCrery (R-LA) introduced his former aide (Jindal) to Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr..[7] Foster subsequently appointed Jindal, then aged twenty-four, to be Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals, an agency then representing about 40 percent of the state's budget; he served from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 1999, he was executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. He was also the youngest-ever president of the University of Louisiana System between 1999 and 2001. Newly-elected President George W. Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; he held that post from July 9, 2001[8] to February 21, 2003[9].


2003 campaign for Governor
Jindal came to national prominence during the 2003 election for Governor of Louisiana.

In the jungle primary, Jindal came in first place with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest paper in Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the newly-elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin; and the outgoing Republican governor, Mike Foster. In the second balloting, Jindal faced the outgoing Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.

Political analysts have speculated on myriad explanations for his loss. Some have blamed Jindal for his refusal to answer questions about his record brought up in several advertisements,[10] which the Jindal Campaign called "negative attack ads". Others note that a significant number of conservative Louisianans remain more comfortable voting for a Democrat than for a Republican. Still others have mentioned the race factor, arguing that many voters are uncomfortable voting for a non-white person.

Despite losing the election, the run for governor made Jindal a well known figure on the state's political scene. He formally declared his intention to run again on January 22, 2007 and eventually won the race for governor.


Congressman of the first district
See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2006
A few weeks after the 2003 gubernatorial runoff, Jindal decided to run for Louisiana's 1st congressional district. The incumbent, David Vitter, was running for the Senate seat being vacated by John Breaux. He moved to Kenner to run for the congressional seat. He was endorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party in the primary despite the fact that Mike Rogers, also a Republican, was running for the same seat. The 1st District has been in Republican hands since a 1977 special election and is widely considered to be the most Republican district in Louisiana. Although Democrats have a plurality in registration, the 1st tends to vote for socially conservative candidates. Jindal also had an advantage because his campaign was able to raise over a million dollars very early in the campaign, making it harder for other candidates to effectively raise funds to oppose him. He won with 78 percent of the vote.

He was elected Freshman Class President and appointed to the House Committee on Homeland Security, the House Committee on Resources, and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Furthermore, he was made the Vice-Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks.


Governor of Louisiana
See also: Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2007
On January 22, 2007, Jindal announced his candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in the upcoming election.[11] Polling data showed Congressman Jindal with an early lead. Jindal defeated eleven opponents in the jungle primary held on October 20, 2007, including two prominent Democrats, State Senator Walter Boasso of Chalmette and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell of Bossier City, and an independent businessman, John Georges of New Orleans.

Jindal's 54 percent of the vote was identical to that received by outgoing Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who defeated Jindal in the 2003 gubernatorial general election. Blanco did not seek a second term. Jindal finished with 699,672 ballots. Boasso ran second with 226,364 votes (17 percent). Georges finished with 186,800 (14 percent), and Campbell, who is also a former state senator, ran fourth with 161,425 (12 percent). The remaining candidates collectively polled 3 percent of the vote. Jindall polled pluralities or majorities in sixty-one of the state's sixty four parishes. He lost only in Boasso's St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans and in the two neighboring north Louisiana parishes of Red River and Bienville located south of Shreveport, both of which are historically Democratic. Red River and Bienville instead supported Foster Campbell in the primary. In the 2003 contest with Blanco, Jindal had lost most of the northern parishes.[12]

Meanwhile, Jindal remains a congressman, and he is expected to assume his position as governor when he takes the oath of office on January 12, 2008. At 36, he will be the youngest governor in the United States. He will also be Louisiana's first non-white governor since P. B. S. Pinchback served for 35 days during Reconstruction.[13]


Positions on selected issues
Congressman Jindal has stated that he is "100 percent against abortion, no exceptions"[4]. During his 2003 run for governor he distinguished himself from Kathleen Blanco, who is also pro-life, by stating that he supports an abortion ban without exceptions for the life of the woman, the health of the woman, rape, or incest. His definition of abortion differs from the medical community as it only includes procedures that target the embryo or fetus, a definition that exclude procedures, such as a salpingectomy, that do not target the embryo specifically but may result in what the medical community would call an abortion[citation needed]. He has stated that he would allow emergency contraception, which some pro-life groups consider morally equivalent to abortion.[14] He has voted with the Republican Party on all abortion related issues.[15][16]

As a private citizen, Jindal voted for the "Stelly Tax plan"[citation needed], a referendum named for former state Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles, which swapped some sales taxes for higher income taxes. Whether or not the "Stelly Plan" is giving the desired results is still hotly debated statewide. Early Republican challenger Steve Scalise challenged Jindal on his vote for this tax plan before Scalise dropped out of the congressional race in 2004.

Jindal supported a constitutional amendment banning flag burning[citation needed], and the Real ID Act of 2005[citation needed]. Jindal has an A rating from Gun Owners of America.

He is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee.[17] In 2006, Jindal voted with the Republican Caucus 97% of the time during the 109th Congress.[18] In 2007, Congress.org, a nonpartisan group, ranked Jindal 432 out of 439 in terms of overall effectiveness in the US House during the 110th Congress.

Jindal also supports co-payments in Medicaid.[19]

In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, which prompted the watchdog group Republicans for Environmental Protection to issue him an environmental harm demerit.[20] Jindal's 2006 rating from that organization was -4, among the lowest in Congress. The nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters also censured Jindal for securing passage of H.R. 4761 in the House of Representatives; the group rated his environmental performance that year at 7%, citing anti-environment votes on eleven out of twelve critical issues. Jindal's lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 7%.[21] Despite claims that Congressman Jindal's bill was successful[22] H.R. 4761 was actually replaced by S 3711 (known as the Domenici-Landrieu Fair Share Plan). The Senate version was the actual legislation that was passed by both houses of Congress, word for word, and signed by President Bush.[23]

Jindal is an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Iraq[citation needed]. In 2005, Jindal led other freshman Republican House members in dipping their fingers in purple dye to celebrate the 2005 Iraqi national elections.[citation needed]

Preliminary results the night of the 20 October 2007 election show Jindal with 53.41% of the vote, meaning he is governor-elect without need for a run-off, and will take office in January of 2008.


Electoral history
Governor of Louisiana, 2003

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 4, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 443,389 (33%) Runoff
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 250,136 (18%) Runoff
Richard Ieyoub Democratic 223,513 (16%) Defeated
Claude "Buddy" Leach Democratic 187,872 (14%) Defeated
Others n.a. 257,614 (19%) Defeated

Second Ballot, November 15, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 731,358 (52%) Elected
Bobby Jindal Republican 676,484 (48%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2004

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 2, 2004

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 225,708 (78%) Elected
Roy Armstrong Democratic 19,266 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 42,923 (15%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2006

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 7, 2006

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 130,508 (88%) Elected
David Gereighty Democratic 10,919 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 6,701 (5%) Defeated

Governor of Louisiana, 2007

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 20, 2007

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 699,672 (54%) Elected
Walter Boasso Democratic 226,364 (17%) Defeated
John Georges Independent 186,800 (14%) Defeated
Foster Campbell Democratic 161,425 (12%) Defeated
Others n.a. 23,682 (3%) Defeated


References
^ [1] "He is Piyush, not Bobby," Rediff India Abroad, 16 November 2003
^ Whoriskey, Peter. "Jindal Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor", Washington Post, 2007-10-21. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
^ [2]"Jindal Throttles Back His High-Energy Style," Times Picayune, 13 June 2007
^ [3] "BEATING A DEMON: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare," New Oxford Review, December 1994
^ Bobby Jindal is India Abroad Person of the Year 2005 Rediff, December 16, 2005
^ Rep. Jindal Delivers Son After Wife Wakes Up in Labor Fox News, August 15, 2006
^ "The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal", National Review
^ Biography of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, US Department of Heath and Human Services. c. 2001. Accessed 25 Oct 2007.
^ BOBBY JINDAL ANNOUNCES HE IS STEPPING DOWN AS HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION, US Department of Heath and Human Services. February 13, 2003. Accessed 25 Oct 2007. "Jindal's resignation is effective Feb. 21."

^ Bobby Jindal 2004 Congressional Campaign Website
^ Republicans for Environmental Protection 2006 Scorecard
^ [League of Conservation Voters 2006 National Environmental Scorecard]
^ The hard work pays off
^ U.S. Senate Passes Domenici-Landrieu "Fair Share" Plan in Early Morning 79-to-9 Vote

External links
U.S. Congressman Bobby Jindal, U.S. House site
Bobby Jindal at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
Federal Election Commission ― Bobby Jindal campaign finance reports and data
On the Issues ― Bobby Jindal issue positions and quotes
OpenSecrets.org ― Bobby Jindal campaign contributions
Biography, Voting record, and Interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
Bobby Jindal for Governor, Campaign site

Articles
Little India Interview Little India, December 2004
Bobby Jindal, a whiz kid takes the reigns (sic) of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospital Little India, June 1996
SIFY ― Newsmakers: The People Behind Today's Headlines, 2003 brief profile
Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana ― Profile article from conservative website
Political offices
Preceded by
Kathleen Blanco Governor of Louisiana
scheduled to assume office January 12, 2008 Governor-elect
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
David Vitter Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st congressional district
2005 � present Incumbent
v ? d ? eLouisiana's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators Mary Landrieu (D), David Vitter (R)
Representative(s) Bobby Jindal (R), William J. Jefferson (D), Charles Melancon (D), Jim McCrery (R), Rodney Alexander (R), Richard H. Baker (R), Charles Boustany (R)
All delegations Alabama ? Alaska ? Arizona ? Arkansas ? California ? Colorado ? Connecticut ? Delaware ? Florida ? Georgia ? Hawaii ? Idaho ? Illinois ? Indiana ? Iowa ? Kansas ? Kentucky ? Louisiana ? Maine ? Maryland ? Massachusetts ? Michigan ? Minnesota ? Mississippi ? Missouri ? Montana ? Nebraska ? Nevada ? New Hampshire ? New Jersey ? New Mexico ? New York ? North Carolina ? North Dakota ? Ohio ? Oklahoma ? Oregon ? Pennsylvania ? Rhode Island ? South Carolina ? South Dakota ? Tennessee ? Texas ? Utah ? Vermont ? Virginia ? Washington ? West Virginia ? Wisconsin ? Wyoming ― American Samoa ? District of Columbia ? Guam ? Puerto Rico ? U.S. Virgin Islands


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Bobby Jindal
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Jump to: navigation, search
Bobby Jindal




Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2005
Preceded by David Vitter
Succeeded by Incumbent


Born June 10, 1971 (1971-06-10) (age 36)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Nationality American
Political party Republican
Spouse Supriya Jolly Jindal
Religion Roman Catholic
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge) is the Republican Governor-elect of the U.S. state of Louisiana. He is also a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Louisiana's 1st congressional district, where he was elected in 2004 to succeed current U.S. Senator David Vitter. Jindal was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote. He will take his oath as governor on January 14, 2008.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Appointments
3 2003 campaign for Governor
4 Congressman of the first district
5 Governor of Louisiana
6 Positions on selected issues
7 Electoral history
8 References
9 External links
9.1 Articles



Biography
Jindal ) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name Bobby after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since, as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer. Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal.[1]

Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism as a teenager.[2] He has also offered testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations since the beginning of the 2007 campaign season.[3] He attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, he wrote an article for the New Oxford Review claiming he personally witnessed a friend being possessed by a demon.[4] After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm.

He is the only Indian-American currently serving in Congress, and the second in congressional history after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat who represented California's 29th District from 1957 to 1963.

He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium."

He was India Abroad Person of the Year in 2005.[5]

In 1997, he married Supriya Jolly (born 1972). The couple has three children, Celia, Shaan, and Slade.

On Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Jindal assisted in delivering his third child when his wife awoke, in labor. The child was born before ambulances had time to respond.[6]


Appointments
In 1995, U.S. Congressman Jim McCrery (R-LA) introduced his former aide (Jindal) to Republican Governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr..[7] Foster subsequently appointed Jindal, then aged twenty-four, to be Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals, an agency then representing about 40 percent of the state's budget; he served from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 1999, he was executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. He was also the youngest-ever president of the University of Louisiana System between 1999 and 2001. Newly-elected President George W. Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; he held that post from July 9, 2001[8] to February 21, 2003[9].


2003 campaign for Governor
Jindal came to national prominence during the 2003 election for Governor of Louisiana.

In the jungle primary, Jindal came in first place with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest paper in Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the newly-elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin; and the outgoing Republican governor, Mike Foster. In the second balloting, Jindal faced the outgoing Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.

Political analysts have speculated on myriad explanations for his loss. Some have blamed Jindal for his refusal to answer questions about his record brought up in several advertisements,[10] which the Jindal Campaign called "negative attack ads". Others note that a significant number of conservative Louisianans remain more comfortable voting for a Democrat than for a Republican. Still others have mentioned the race factor, arguing that many voters are uncomfortable voting for a non-white person.

Despite losing the election, the run for governor made Jindal a well known figure on the state's political scene. He formally declared his intention to run again on January 22, 2007 and eventually won the race for governor.


Congressman of the first district
See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2006
A few weeks after the 2003 gubernatorial runoff, Jindal decided to run for Louisiana's 1st congressional district. The incumbent, David Vitter, was running for the Senate seat being vacated by John Breaux. He moved to Kenner to run for the congressional seat. He was endorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party in the primary despite the fact that Mike Rogers, also a Republican, was running for the same seat. The 1st District has been in Republican hands since a 1977 special election and is widely considered to be the most Republican district in Louisiana. Although Democrats have a plurality in registration, the 1st tends to vote for socially conservative candidates. Jindal also had an advantage because his campaign was able to raise over a million dollars very early in the campaign, making it harder for other candidates to effectively raise funds to oppose him. He won with 78 percent of the vote.

He was elected Freshman Class President and appointed to the House Committee on Homeland Security, the House Committee on Resources, and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Furthermore, he was made the Vice-Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks.


Governor of Louisiana
See also: Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2007
On January 22, 2007, Jindal announced his candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in the upcoming election.[11] Polling data showed Congressman Jindal with an early lead. Jindal defeated eleven opponents in the jungle primary held on October 20, 2007, including two prominent Democrats, State Senator Walter Boasso of Chalmette and Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell of Bossier City, and an independent businessman, John Georges of New Orleans.

Jindal's 54 percent of the vote was identical to that received by outgoing Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who defeated Jindal in the 2003 gubernatorial general election. Blanco did not seek a second term. Jindal finished with 699,672 ballots. Boasso ran second with 226,364 votes (17 percent). Georges finished with 186,800 (14 percent), and Campbell, who is also a former state senator, ran fourth with 161,425 (12 percent). The remaining candidates collectively polled 3 percent of the vote. Jindall polled pluralities or majorities in sixty-one of the state's sixty four parishes. He lost only in Boasso's St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans and in the two neighboring north Louisiana parishes of Red River and Bienville located south of Shreveport, both of which are historically Democratic. Red River and Bienville instead supported Foster Campbell in the primary. In the 2003 contest with Blanco, Jindal had lost most of the northern parishes.[12]

Meanwhile, Jindal remains a congressman, and he is expected to assume his position as governor when he takes the oath of office on January 12, 2008. At 36, he will be the youngest governor in the United States. He will also be Louisiana's first non-white governor since P. B. S. Pinchback served for 35 days during Reconstruction.[13]


Positions on selected issues
Congressman Jindal has stated that he is "100 percent against abortion, no exceptions"[4]. During his 2003 run for governor he distinguished himself from Kathleen Blanco, who is also pro-life, by stating that he supports an abortion ban without exceptions for the life of the woman, the health of the woman, rape, or incest. His definition of abortion differs from the medical community as it only includes procedures that target the embryo or fetus, a definition that exclude procedures, such as a salpingectomy, that do not target the embryo specifically but may result in what the medical community would call an abortion[citation needed]. He has stated that he would allow emergency contraception, which some pro-life groups consider morally equivalent to abortion.[14] He has voted with the Republican Party on all abortion related issues.[15][16]

As a private citizen, Jindal voted for the "Stelly Tax plan"[citation needed], a referendum named for former state Representative Vic Stelly of Lake Charles, which swapped some sales taxes for higher income taxes. Whether or not the "Stelly Plan" is giving the desired results is still hotly debated statewide. Early Republican challenger Steve Scalise challenged Jindal on his vote for this tax plan before Scalise dropped out of the congressional race in 2004.

Jindal supported a constitutional amendment banning flag burning[citation needed], and the Real ID Act of 2005[citation needed]. Jindal has an A rating from Gun Owners of America.

He is a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee.[17] In 2006, Jindal voted with the Republican Caucus 97% of the time during the 109th Congress.[18] In 2007, Congress.org, a nonpartisan group, ranked Jindal 432 out of 439 in terms of overall effectiveness in the US House during the 110th Congress.

Jindal also supports co-payments in Medicaid.[19]

In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling over the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, which prompted the watchdog group Republicans for Environmental Protection to issue him an environmental harm demerit.[20] Jindal's 2006 rating from that organization was -4, among the lowest in Congress. The nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters also censured Jindal for securing passage of H.R. 4761 in the House of Representatives; the group rated his environmental performance that year at 7%, citing anti-environment votes on eleven out of twelve critical issues. Jindal's lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters is 7%.[21] Despite claims that Congressman Jindal's bill was successful[22] H.R. 4761 was actually replaced by S 3711 (known as the Domenici-Landrieu Fair Share Plan). The Senate version was the actual legislation that was passed by both houses of Congress, word for word, and signed by President Bush.[23]

Jindal is an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Iraq[citation needed]. In 2005, Jindal led other freshman Republican House members in dipping their fingers in purple dye to celebrate the 2005 Iraqi national elections.[citation needed]

Preliminary results the night of the 20 October 2007 election show Jindal with 53.41% of the vote, meaning he is governor-elect without need for a run-off, and will take office in January of 2008.


Electoral history
Governor of Louisiana, 2003

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 4, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 443,389 (33%) Runoff
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 250,136 (18%) Runoff
Richard Ieyoub Democratic 223,513 (16%) Defeated
Claude "Buddy" Leach Democratic 187,872 (14%) Defeated
Others n.a. 257,614 (19%) Defeated

Second Ballot, November 15, 2003

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Kathleen Blanco Democratic 731,358 (52%) Elected
Bobby Jindal Republican 676,484 (48%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2004

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 2, 2004

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 225,708 (78%) Elected
Roy Armstrong Democratic 19,266 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 42,923 (15%) Defeated

U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2006

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, November 7, 2006

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 130,508 (88%) Elected
David Gereighty Democratic 10,919 (7%) Defeated
Others n.a. 6,701 (5%) Defeated

Governor of Louisiana, 2007

Threshold > 50%

First Ballot, October 20, 2007

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Bobby Jindal Republican 699,672 (54%) Elected
Walter Boasso Democratic 226,364 (17%) Defeated
John Georges Independent 186,800 (14%) Defeated
Foster Campbell Democratic 161,425 (12%) Defeated
Others n.a. 23,682 (3%) Defeated


References
^ [1] "He is Piyush, not Bobby," Rediff India Abroad, 16 November 2003
^ Whoriskey, Peter. "Jindal Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor", Washington Post, 2007-10-21. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
^ [2]"Jindal Throttles Back His High-Energy Style," Times Picayune, 13 June 2007
^ [3] "BEATING A DEMON: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare," New Oxford Review, December 1994
^ Bobby Jindal is India Abroad Person of the Year 2005 Rediff, December 16, 2005
^ Rep. Jindal Delivers Son After Wife Wakes Up in Labor Fox News, August 15, 2006
^ "The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Bobby Jindal", National Review
^ Biography of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, US Department of Heath and Human Services. c. 2001. Accessed 25 Oct 2007.
^ BOBBY JINDAL ANNOUNCES HE IS STEPPING DOWN AS HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION, US Department of Heath and Human Services. February 13, 2003. Accessed 25 Oct 2007. "Jindal's resignation is effective Feb. 21."

^ Bobby Jindal 2004 Congressional Campaign Website
^ Republicans for Environmental Protection 2006 Scorecard
^ [League of Conservation Voters 2006 National Environmental Scorecard]
^ The hard work pays off
^ U.S. Senate Passes Domenici-Landrieu "Fair Share" Plan in Early Morning 79-to-9 Vote

External links
U.S. Congressman Bobby Jindal, U.S. House site
Bobby Jindal at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
Federal Election Commission ― Bobby Jindal campaign finance reports and data
On the Issues ― Bobby Jindal issue positions and quotes
OpenSecrets.org ― Bobby Jindal campaign contributions
Biography, Voting record, and Interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
Bobby Jindal for Governor, Campaign site

Articles
Little India Interview Little India, December 2004
Bobby Jindal, a whiz kid takes the reigns (sic) of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospital Little India, June 1996
SIFY ― Newsmakers: The People Behind Today's Headlines, 2003 brief profile
Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana ― Profile article from conservative website
Political offices
Preceded by
Kathleen Blanco Governor of Louisiana
scheduled to assume office January 12, 2008 Governor-elect
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
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2005 � present Incumbent
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Senators Mary Landrieu (D), David Vitter (R)
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