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	Bush congratulates Bobby Jindal
		has congratulated Indian-American Bobby Jindal on winning the Governor's election in Louisiana, with the White House saying it was an "incredible honour".
		Jindal, a conservative Republican, broke racial barriers when he soundly and decisively defeated 11 candidates to become the youngest governor of the once racially segregated state.
		Jindal contested for the post on a platform that pledged clean politics and in the process became the first Indian-American to lead a state.
	www.rediff.com /rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/23jindal1.htm (0 words)

	Bobby Jindal's first test on Saturday
		The candidature of Bobby, born as Piyush Jindal, is striking in that he enjoys the support of outgoing Republican governor Mike Foster and, at 32 years, he has already served as a senior official in the Bush Administration.
		Jindal's ability to overcome the disadvantage of race is attributed to his frankly extremist Republican agenda and his promise to introduce education reforms and abolish several state business taxes, which he says have made the southern state unattractive to industry, his campaign secretary Trey Williams said.
		Jindal was born and raised in Baton Rouge.
	in.rediff.com /news/2003/oct/03bobby.htm (506 words)

	Bobby Jindal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician.
		Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans.
		Jindal was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants who were attending graduate school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Jindal (1061 words)

	U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Louisiana native Bobby Jindal is proud to be the Freshman Congressman representing the First District of Louisiana.
		In 1998, Bobby left DHH and was appointed Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a 17-member panel under the chairmanship of Senator John Breaux (D-LA) and Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA).
		Bobby is a native of Louisiana, born in Baton Rouge.
	jindal.house.gov /Biography (456 words)

	Bobby Jindal Saves Louisiana \| Redstate
		Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge in 1971.
		Jindal likes to tell the story now of how when he went out on dates, he’d just tell girls that he was “a secretary.” Nobody would believe him if he said what his real job was—or worse, he’d seem like he was bragging.
		Jindal and his staff found Lee exactly where they expected him to be: eating in a local diner, his unofficial office, powered by generators.
	www.redstate.com /stories/elections/2007/bobby_jindal_saves_louisiana (0 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Profile: Bobby Jindal
		Bobby Jindal has put behind him a defeat in the contest to become governor of Louisiana last year to become the first Indian-American elected to Congress for nearly 50 years.
		Mr Jindal's parents are from the Punjab, in northern India.
		However, Mr Jindal was narrowly defeated in the race for governor by Democrat Kathleen Blanco.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3169314.stm (373 words)

	The Wilder Effect
		BOBBY JINDAL'S DEFEAT in the Louisiana governor's race Saturday is a bigger loss for Republicans than just an office they've held for eight years.
		Jindal, whose parents moved to Baton Rouge from India shortly before he was born, won 70 percent of the white vote in the New Orleans area.
		Jindal, a Brown University graduate and Rhodes Scholar with a dazzling résumé, ran a positive campaign, calling himself a "problem solver." When Blanco ran a TV commercial attacking his tenure as head of Louisiana's hospitals, he didn't respond directly to the charges, though he criticized her for going negative.
	weeklystandard.com /content/public/articles/000/000/003/391lpcdh.asp (621 words)

	BAM: Bobby Goes Home, Features, November/December 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Specifically, Jindal is attending a party on the Atchafalaya River, floating aboard a 220-foot offshore supply boat and talking to a clump of young women in satin sashes and figure-hugging casual cruise wear.
		Defying the pundits, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, an Indian American Hindu turned Christian turned Roman Catholic Republican, was emerging as the frontrunner in Louisiana’s unusual election system, in which all candidates for governor compete in a single primary against one another, regardless of their party affiliation.
		Jindal quickly cracked down on rampant fraud and beefed up the department’s ability to go after institutions, especially nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, that were skimming off much of the federal windfall.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storyDetail.cfm?ID=2200 (3838 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		Republican Bobby Jindal, the son of immigrants from India who placed first in Louisiana's all-party primary for governor Saturday, was so unknown in the state that he wasn't even included in the first statewide poll on the race last January.
		Jindal faced enormous skepticism that a person with dark skin could succeed in Louisiana, a state in which David Duke was the runner-up for governor just a dozen years ago.
		Jindal imposed budget discipline and rooted out so much fraud that he was able to turn the state's $400 million Medicaid deficit into a surplus.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110004134 (1168 words)

	Power Line: A star is born, we hope
		Jindal is a 33-year-old wunderkind -- a policy wonk with degrees from Brown and Oxford -- whose parents emigrated from India to Baton Rouge before he was born.
		Barnes is back in the current issue of the Weekly Standard with "Jindal all the way," an upate on Jindal in connection with his election to Congress.
		Below is a photo of Jindal, his family and his supporters on the night he emerged as one of the winning candidates in the gubernatorial primary last year.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/008738.php (882 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Dynamo To Take Job with Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jindal, who is Indian American, rose to prominence in Louisiana government at an early age after graduating from Baton Rouge High School at age 16; Brown University at 20; and, as a Rhodes Scholar with a graduate degree in politics, Oxford University at age 23.
		Breaux later said Jindal was “intimately involved” in developing the market-oriented Medicare overhaul embraced by a majority of the commission.
		Jindal’s parents immigrated to the United States from India, and he was born and raised in Baton Rouge.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_03_16/news8_bobbyjindal.html (686 words)

	Bobby Jindal concedes defeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jindal appeared with daughter Selia Elizabeth in his arms, and accompanied by wife Supriya, and the couple's parents; he was greeted with fervent chants of 'Bobby, Bobby'.
		Jindal thanked his family, especially wife Supriya, for their unstinted support; he also thanked at length Governor Mike Foster, his mentor, for urging him to contest and having faith in him.
		Jindal promised that despite his defeat, he would continue to serve the state, and work to make it better.
	us.rediff.com /news/2003/nov/16jindal3.htm (253 words)

	Ramesh Ponnuru on Bobby Jindal & Louisiana on National Review Online
		Jindal's first order of business on the economic front would be to eliminate three corporate taxes: the sales tax on manufacturing equipment, the corporate franchise tax, and the property tax on offshore equipment.
		Jindal claims credit for converting the state's Medicaid deficit into a surplus while he ran the state health department (media observers have also credited him).
		Jindal is one of three Republican candidates for governor.
	www.nationalreview.com /ponnuru/ponnuru090503.asp (874 words)

	Congressman Helps Deliver His Own Son, Rep. Bobby Jindal Helps His Wife Deliver Couple's Third Child, a Baby ...
		Bobby Jindal barely had time to call 911 when his wife woke with labor pains Tuesday.
		Jindal, coached over the phone by a nurse at the doctor's office, put the baby in the arms of his wife, Supriya, and tied off the umbilical cord with a shoestring.
		Supriya Jindal had been to the hospital twice in the last week with pains thought to be contractions, her husband said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/16/ap/politics/mainD8JHG8580.shtml (383 words)

	NFIA Pledges Full Support to Bobby Jindal’s Campaign
		Jindal will be the first American of Indian decent to run for governor in the United States, and if elected, will be the youngest head of State.
		Jindal who served for nearly two years as Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation of Health and Human Services, the highest-level political appointee of Indian origin in the Bush Administration recently resigned from that job to start his campaign for the State governor.
		Jindal is married to Supriya Jolly and they have a one-year-old daughter.
	www.nfia.net /BobbyJindal2.html (432 words)

	Untitled Document
		Jindal believes he can be influential on the issue in his first year in the House, even though he won't be on one of the committees directly dealing with health care.
		Jindal never complained publicly about the ad, which criticized his record as hospital chief, or other attacks.
		Jindal believes that "if it hadn't been for 9/11, health care would be the top domestic issue." And it's a problem for Republicans.
	www.politicsla.com /special_reports/weekly_standard_Jindal2.htm (867 words)

	Bobby Jindal is flying high, literally
		Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, the Republican frontrunner in the election for the Louisiana governor slated for Saturday, is flying high ahead of the election that can make him the first Indian American chief executive of a state.
		On the last day before the primary, Jindal, 32, flew over the state in a small rented plane with wife Supriya to meet with supporters and prospective voters.
		Jindal has conducted his electoral campaign for Louisiana governor for the past six months by driving up from one place to another, but on Friday he could not have driven down.
	specials.rediff.com /news/2003/oct/04us.htm (340 words)

	97-084 (Bobby Jindal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bobby Jindal, 26, director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, will outline the pressures and issues facing that program in a public lecture Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
		Jindal recently stepped down as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the state's largest agency, with 12,000 employees and hundreds of facilities, to accept the one-year appointment as director of the new National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.
		Jindal's visit to Brown is sponsored by the Asian American Students Association, South Asian Students Association, Department of Public Policy and the Brown University School of Medicine.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1997-98/97-084.html (631 words)

	Bobby Jindal mirrors the immigrant aspiration:
		Jindal left his opponents biting the dust in the Cajun state to come into the US House nearly 50 years after Dalip Singh Saund made it there from California back in 1956 as the first Indian American in Congress.
		Jindal hardly mirrors the usual junior legislator on the Hill.
		Jindal ended his campaign with cash in hand of $1.04 million as of mid-October 2004, a comfortable position to be in going to Washington.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1271535/posts (939 words)

	Bobby Jindal Is Bad!
		Bobby Jindal claimed to be against negative ads on the Jim Brown show (and on nola.com).
		Bobby Jindal was supposed to have all this clout, at least that is what his campaign and the media told everyone in 2004 and 2006.
		From his “family values” commercial to this attack on Georges, Bobby Jindal shows that he feels people cannot be trusted to make their own decisions on how to run their lives and that it is the job of government to tell people what to do.
	www.jindalisbad.com (0 words)

	Power Line: The return of Bobby Jindal
		We celebrated the emergence of "Bubbas for Bobby" in the course of last year's campaign (see "Here comes Bobby Jindal, we hope"), and in "Breaking down the Louisiana vote" we took a look at the voting patterns underlying Jindal's loss.
		The Economic Times previewed Jindal's election in "Bobby Jindal set to be the only Indian-American in US Congress." Something tells me that we're going to be hearing more from Congressman-elect Jindal.
		Tracked on November 4, 2004 09:12 AM » Lost in the Celebration: Bobby Jindal Finally Won from Ace of Spades HQ With 78% of the vote, which is kinda good.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/008494.php (1541 words)

	Bobby Jindal
		Jindal Campaign Launches New TV Ad, “Dirty Dishes”
		Jindal Wins Endorsement of 83 Central LA Elected Officials
		John Georges “Never Misses An Opportunity” to Attack Bobby Jindal
	www.bobbyjindal.com (44 words)

	INDOlink - News & Analysis - Now Bobby Jindal Decides To Run For US Congress
		The 32-year-old Jindal, a former health care adviser to President George Walker Bush, lost the election for the governor of Louisiana to Democrat Kathleen Blanco, who got 52 per cent of the vote to his 48 per cent.
		Jindal recently announced that he was moving his family from Baton Rouge to Kenner in the 1st Congressional District.
		At age 4, Piyush Jindal changed his name to Bobby; the change was inspired by a character in the 'Brady Bunch' TV show.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=013004094127 (331 words)

	INDOlink - Living in America! - The Agony and Ecstasy of Bobby Jindal
		As it turns out, the story of Piyush Bobby Jindal’s transformation from a devout young Hindu to a zealous Catholic offers an intriguing glimpse into the struggle, often traumatic, of a young Indian American caught between his heritage and his parents on the one hand and his intellectual and emotional turmoil in America.
		Jindal admits that up to that point his perspective remained intellectual and not spiritual.
		Jindal recalls, “My parents were infuriated by my conversion and have yet to fully forgive me.” He even steeled himself for the worst by becoming financially independent.
	www.indolink.com /Living/America/a91.php (1521 words)

	World - Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s next guv?
		Florida: Bobby Jindal could well be the first Indian American to become a governor in a US state.
		Jindal has the support of present governor of Louisiana, Mike Foster, who after completing two terms in office cannot run for a third term.
		Jindal is non-committal about running for a US senator’s post down the road.
	www.mid-day.com /news/world/2003/march/47219.htm (566 words)

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