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...France raising money also continues to be a struggle. Marie-France Blanco, a former teacher and social worker, has battled since the mid-1980s to find funding for a program for children of prison inmates. Blanco, who was appalled to discover that the children of French prison inmates are often forgotten by the authorities who lock up their parents, could get the help of only her husband, an executive at the French subsidiary of farm-equipment manufacturer Massey-Ferguson, before she decided to create an association. "When I said prison, everyone turned their head," she recalls...
Then a contact referred Blanco to the Van Leer foundation, which agreed to fund her group. She has since expanded to a national federation with 17 regional associations. Thanks to her, several French prisons have facilities for visiting children. After three years of arm twisting, the Fleury-Merogis prison outside Paris last month let her stage the first Father's Day party for kids and their jailed dads. Blanco still has to struggle to raise money. She recently wrote to all 63 companies in her local chamber of commerce. Not one gave a euro...
ELECTED. KATHLEEN BLANCO, 60, a Democrat, as Governor of Louisiana; in a runoff election. Currently Lieutenant Governor, she becomes the state's first woman Governor after defeating Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican...
...Governor of full-fledged Indian--and we don't mean Native American--ancestry? In Louisiana's race for Governor, Republican Bobby Jindal, 32, born and raised in Baton Rouge by parents who emigrated from India, is in a surprising dead heat for first place with Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco. Jindal already has a whiz kid's resume: state health secretary, executive director of the national commission on Medicare, president of the University of Louisiana system and a top health-policy adviser to the Bush Administration--all before the age of 30. He has wooed Louisiana's relatively conservative voters...
Jindal's popularity surprises even some old Bush Administration colleagues. "I wished the guy luck, but I never thought he'd go anywhere," says one. If, as expected, he and Blanco finish in the top two spots in this Saturday's primary, they will square off in the November general election. Democrats seem to have an edge, but Jindal could win. If he does, he would be Louisiana's youngest Governor ever--and instantly a national figure in a party eager to show that it can reach out to minorities. --By Matthew Cooper and Paige Bowers