Word: louisiana
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...widely expected victory Saturday night, Bobby Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican Congressman, won the Louisiana gubernatorial election, becoming the nation's first governor of Indian-American descent and the youngest chief executive of any state. Jindal took 54% of the vote in the state's off-year open primary, the first since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and became the first non-white politician to hold the state's highest office since Reconstruction. Jindal, one of the few young rising stars in the G.O.P. ran on a strong reform platform. "Don't let anyone talk badly about Louisana...
...Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, is generally acknowledged to be an ambitious policy whiz kid. An Ivy League-educated Rhodes Scholar, he was appointed head of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the state's largest agency, at the tender age of 24. At 28, he was tapped to head one of Louisiana's university systems. Two years later, he served in the Bush Administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. He first ran for governor in 2003 at the age of 32, losing by a mere four percentage points to current...
While congressional sources say some kind of compromise is in the works on the children's health-care bill, the water measure--which gives $7 billion to restore Louisiana wetlands and reorganizes the embattled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--has so much support that Congress is likely to hand Bush the first veto override of his presidency. After that: more spending bills on issues like veterans' funding and education. If the gop thought commercials about sick kids were bad, there may be ads on the environment, veterans, teachers and more to look forward...
...Bush may simply be recognizing reality: Congressional sources on both sides of the aisle expect a compromise to eventually pass that will include the $35 billion that Democrats have demanded. And the water measure - which gives $7 billion to restore Louisiana wetlands and reorganizes the embattled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - has so much support that Congress is likely to hand Bush the first veto override of his presidency...
...Cook points out, Louisiana could destroy the Dems' faint hopes. Landrieu is facing the toughest race of her career, one in which Cook says she only has a 50% chance of winning. Unlike her previous opponents, the G.O.P. has recruited a real threat this time: State Treasurer John Kennedy, who switched parties in August in order to run against her, though he has yet to officially announce his candidacy. Katrina left the state trending G.O.P. after displacing hundreds of thousands of African American voters...