Bell Curve The Law Talking Guy Raised by Republicans U.S. West
Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Now in Charge of More Than Just the Kwik-E-Mart

This week, Louisiana voted for Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Republican) to be their new governor. He is the first American of (East) Indian descent to be elected to such a high office. There are about 2.5 million Asian Indians in the US, less than 1%, and prejudice against these smaller minorities can sometimes go unremarked. Despite some of Jindal's highly conservative views (e.g. he wants to ban all abortions without exception) on balance I see his election as evidence of continuing progress toward civil rights for all.

3 comments:

The Law Talking Guy said...

He pretty much won every part of the state except New Orleans. But here's the lesson. He got 700,000 votes total, which was 54% of the total. New Orleans is missing about 250,000 black people. There's a connection there.

Carl said...

Does the Governor of Louisiana have the legal power to remove local officials? If so, I hope Jindal removes N.O. Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Chief Warren Riley and D.A. Eddie Jordan for gross misconduct, incompetence, & neglect.

Raised By Republicans said...

From what I've heard, Nagin is the GOP's favorite Democrat in New Orleans so I wouldn't count on his removal by a Republican governor even if it were possible - which it almost certainly isn't.