Word: louisiana
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...ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both in jobs and reimbursements to health care providers; that work led to a stint as director of a federal Medicare commission at 27 and head of the Louisiana State University system a year later. At 30, he was serving as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and by 33, a year after his defeat, he won the U.S. House seat being vacated by G.O.P. Senator David Vitter and coasted to reelection...
Four years ago after coming within a few percentage points of being elected the nation's first Indian-American governor, conservative Louisiana Congressman Bobby Jindal is well positioned to make it all the way this fall...
...attacking his opponents as part of the "corrupt crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme that has had limited success among past reform candidates...
...leadership endorsed Jindal and when it became clear that Breaux was out of the race, Boasso switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public service commissioner and former state senator Foster Campbell is the more traditional Louisiana Democrat, proud to wear the populist label. But he's little known outside his North Louisiana stronghold, where Jindal's appeals to Christian conservatives have cut into Campbell's natural base. Rounding out the field of major candidates is New Orleans businessman John Georges, who is running as an Independent...
...stem cell research and abortion while favoring the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. The strategy has helped his standing among the state's conservative Christian voters, and helped him overcome the twin liabilities (in some circles) of intellectualism and ethnicity - traits that arouse suspicion in some of Louisiana's rural stretches, and that many say also helped tip the scales against him in 2003. He has mostly toed the party line in his short time in Congress, even voting - as critics never tire of pointing out - against a spending bill earlier this year that would have provided billions...