October 21, 2007
Congratulations to Governor-elect Bobby Jindal!
Reported at Bloomberg.com:
Republican U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana late yesterday and will become the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. state.Congrats, Bobby!Jindal, a Rhodes Scholar who became Louisiana's health secretary at age 24, won 54 percent of the votes in an open primary, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's Web site. A majority of votes were needed to negate the need for a Nov. 17 runoff election. Democrats Foster Campbell and Walter Boasso got 13 percent and 17 percent, respectively, while Independent John Georges won 14 percent....
Jindal, 36, the son of immigrants from India, graduated from Oxford University in 1994 and took over Louisiana's health department two years later. He was named head of a national Medicare reform commission in 1998, president of the University of Louisiana in 1999, and a health policy adviser for President George W. Bush in 2001.
