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Jindal was raised a Hindu but converted to Catholicism. Jindal adopted the name "Bobby" after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since. Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal.
Just over a year into his term, he has already faced a recall effort, from citizens disgusted by his comically inept mishandling of a legislative pay raise.
He wrote an article for New Oxford Review in which he claimed to have taken part in a ceremony that sounded very much like an exorcism. New Oxford Review has since placed it in the memory hole, but it is mirrored all over the place.
New Orleans just lost a major science convention because of a creationism law that he rammed through, in conjunction with the pay raise issue, as a matter of fact. The convention will instead be held in Salt Lake City, which apparently is seen as being more science-friendly.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that he was, um, less than truthful about his whereabouts and role during Katrina. Remember how he claimed to have delivered his own baby because there weren't any emergency services available? Then he lied about being in the disaster zone when he was more than 70 miles away?
Jindal is clueless about the reality in his own state. He claimed Katrina caused NO OIL SPILLS. The hurricane ACTUALLY caused offshore oil spills so large that they could be seen from space. The Minerals Management Service reported that 113 oil platforms were “totally destroyed” and a total of 124 offshore spills.
Piyush Jindal lied again last night in his speech. He claimed:”The stimulus includes $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a magnetic levitation line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring".
The TRUTH is that the stimulus bill does not allocate any high speed rail money for specific projects. In fact, any stimulus money for high speed rail would be allocated by Obama transportation secretary Ray Lahood—a Republican ...
(There's no money in the stimulus to save the San Francisco salt marsh mouse, either.)
From Rush Limbaugh: "Bobby Jindal, the new governor of Louisiana, is the next Ronald Reagan." The title fits, given Reagan's disdain for the poor and for people of color. (Though it's unlikely that Reagan ever included performing exorcisms on his resume.) Add Jindal's unconditional opposition to abortion under any circumstances (15 years old and raped? Tough.), his support for teaching the doctrine of "intelligent design" in public schools and his opposition to civil rights protections for gay and lesbian people, and you have a perfect storm of ideological disaster for the New Orleans and the state.
Jindal, the young wunderkind who is being touted as conservatism's rising new star, has openly embraced some of the most extreme components of the right's agenda, from tax cuts for the wealthy to public funding of private and religious schools. The New Orleans area can least afford to be the staging ground for a bankrupt conservative ideology, but Jindal is zealously leading the state into the void nonetheless, even to the point of criticizing President Bush for not being right-wing enough.
Jindal is a corporatist stooge, and he only won the last election due to ethnic cleansing and an unholy amount of cash pumped in by the national GOP. In fact, he paid a fine to avoid an ethics investigation in relation to that money. Most of LA is red, but the population of New Orleans balanced out the rest of the state. After the BushCo ‘urban renewal project’ that was Katrina, much of that population has not returned to the city.
Louisiana has the 3rd-worst poverty rate, 5th-worst mark for math scores, 5th-worst in per-capita incomes, yet number 1 in infant mortality rates, under Piyush Jindal…
And, for a laugh:
“Not since Barry Goldwater in 1964 has anyone made such a strong case to vote Democrat,” according to DNC Chairman Tim Kaine. “Unless he turns out to be their Presidential nominee, I can’t imagine a better way to jump-start our 2012 national campaign than to have a Republican leader like Bobby Jindal deliver our Keynote address.”
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