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LA elects immigrant’s son as new guv

Overcoming the most shameful smear tactics by state Democrats, Bobby Jindal (Republican) became the newly elected governor of Louisiana this past weekend.  From Breitbart/AP:

Changing Louisiana’s reputation for corruption would do more than just make over its image, Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal said Sunday: It could help the state attract businesses and win federal aid for hurricane recovery.

The Republican congressman, a day after his historic win in an election that featured a dozen candidates for governor, pressed ahead with his campaign pledge, saying in an interview with The Associated Press that one of his first acts will be to call a special legislative session to reform ethics laws.
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The son of immigrants on Saturday won more than 50 percent of the vote in a primary election to make him Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction and the nation’s first Indian-American chief executive. That tally averted the need for a November runoff election.

It won’t be easy for Jindal, since he has to clean up the bumbling incompetent Blanco’s messes.  But I do get the feeling that he’s up for the job, and Louisianans agree.

October 22, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Louisiana