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Posted: Sat Oct 20th, 2007 12:20 pm |
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Baton Rouge, LA (LifeNews.com) -- Unlike residents of most of the nation, Louisiana voters are some of the few to have an opportunity to vote in off-year elections. In this case, they will pick between Republicans and Democrats in the first round of a combined primary battle that features a pro-life member of Congress. Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal has run for governor before, losing to pro-life Democrat Kathleen Blanco by 52 percent to 48 percent in the 2003 race.
Since that defeat, Jindal, the main Republican candidate tomorrow, has compiled a solid pro-life voting record.
According to the National Right to Life Committee, Jindal has a 100% pro-life voting record, having voted not only against abortion and abortion funding but against embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and human cloning as well.
Five Democratic candidates are vying for votes and the best known include Foster Campbell, a state public service commissioner, and Walter Boasso, a state senator who switched from the Republican Party.
Wealthy businessman John Georges is running as an independent and minor party candidates are seeking the office as well.
Jindal has been favored all along in the election and most political observers say the only question is whether he will receive the majority votes needed to avoid a Nov. 17 runoff election.
Blanco has earned praise from pro-life advocates despite having been strongly criticized for her role in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- the reason she did not run for re-election.
In 2006, she signed a trigger law for Louisiana that would make it so abortions would be illegal if the Supreme Court ever overturns the Roe v. Wade decision.
Governor Blanco also signed a ban on partial-birth abortions -- making it the first state to do so after the Supreme Court upheld a national ban.
She also signed a law making Louisiana the next state to tell women considering an abortion that her baby will feel considerable pain during the procedure. The measure also requires abortion businesses to give women the option of seeing an ultrasound of their unborn child beforehand.
The above article is reposted with permission from LifeNews.com.
Last edited on Sat Oct 20th, 2007 12:21 pm by CajunRick
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Posted: Sat Oct 20th, 2007 12:31 pm |
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As an additional comment from a Louisiana resident (me), Jindal is a Louisiana native whose parents are from India and teach at Louisiana State University. He and his wife (also Indian-American) are converts to the Catholic faith. He has posted his conversion story online.
The most recent pollls show Jindal with 46-48%, and no other candidate in double digits. (Undecided runs 30-40%). Under Louisiana's unique election system, all candidates run together in a single primary, and if no candidate gains more than 50% of the vote, the top two candidates face each other in a general election. Of the four major candidates, Jindal is a Republican, Walter Boasso and Foster Campbell are Democrats, and John Georges is a Republican running as an Independent.
To the best of my knowledge, all of the major candidates are pro-life. Pro-abortion politicians are practically non-existent in Louisiana statewide politics (Senator Mary Landrieu and Congressman Bill Jefferson are notable exceptions).
Abortion has not been mentioned as an issue in the campaign. The primary election is today, October 20.
An article written by Jindal, How Catholicism Is Different, appeared in the New Oxford Review in 1996. The Democrat party has been running ads in North Louisiana opposing Jindal because of his Catholic writings.
Jindal graduated with honors in biology and public policy from Brown University, and received his graduate degree in Politics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
He is 36 years old. After graduating from public high school at age 16, he has advised Fortune 50 companies, served as Secretary of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals and Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, and been elected to Congress. You can find his full timeline here.
I guess you've probably figured out who I'm voting for. He is a rare politician in Louisiana -- honest, intelligent, and faith-filled. I predict you will be hearing his name a lot more in the future, quite likely on a national stage. He will be John McCain and Fred Thompson's age in about 40 years.
Last edited on Sat Oct 20th, 2007 01:06 pm by CajunRick
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Posted: Sun Oct 21st, 2007 01:49 am |
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Bobby Jindal has apparently been elected Governor of Louisiana. In unofficial returns, with 96% of the precincts reporting, Jindal has taken 53% of the vote. In his victory speech he repeatedly led the crowd in repeating what will obviously become his mantra, "We can change, we must change, we will change" and he announced that old-style Louisiana politics has ended by saying those accustomed to feeding at the trough will not go easily, but they will go.
He has previously announced, and he reiterated tonight, that on the day he takes office he will call a special session of the legislature to deal with ethics reform. In the first election after term limits went into effect, two-thirds of the members of the legislature will be new.
It is a great day for Louisiana!
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