laws designed to protect hate crime victims should be upheld whther
it is in Louisiana or it be in DC or >Sudan or Pakistan or India .
**** Well said Umesh.
But it was not about enforcement. What they spoke about was more
fundamental---of enactment of such laws, which Jindal, like his
constituency the 'conservatives', oppose.
At 7:38 PM -0700 10/19/07, umesh sharma wrote:
Dilip-da,
I may not know rural Louisiana or urban DC (urban DC has higher
crime rate than most parts of US) but I think I do know what
hate crime means ( I had an opportunity to visit US Dept of Justice
with Hindu American Foundation and met the US representative dealing
with Hate Crimes - esp in light of Sep 11 bombings. Well laws
designed to protect hate crime victims should be upheld whther it is
in Louisiana or it be in DC or Sudan or Pakistan or India .
http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp definition of hate crimes.
http://www.partnersagainsthate.org/laws/list-of-hate-crime-laws.html?state=dc
Umesh
Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't know rural Louisiana, Umesh, being in Wsahington DC.
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umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good to see an Indian American win something - regardless of his
hate crime laws opposition -ofcourse noone iin his family will need
to worry about it -- only the New Orleans' black natives need worry.
Right?
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/us/19louisiana.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Highlighting mine.
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An Improbable Favorite Emerges in Cajun Country
Lee Celano for The New York Times
Bobby Jindal, left, an Indian-American, is favored to win the
primary election for Louisiana governor by enough to avoid a runoff.
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By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: October 19, 2007
FRANKLINTON, La., Oct. 17 - An Oxford-educated son of immigrants
from India is virtually certain to become the leading candidate for
Louisiana's next governor in Saturday's primary election. It would
be an unlikely choice for a state that usually picks its leaders
from deep in the rural hinterlands and has not had a nonwhite chief
executive since Reconstruction.
But peculiar circumstances have combined to make Representative
Bobby Jindal, a conservative two-term Republican, the overwhelming
favorite. Analysts predict Mr. Jindal, 36, could get more than 50
percent of the vote in the open primary, thus avoiding a November
runoff and becoming the nation's first Indian-American governor. If
he fails to win a majority, he would face the next-highest vote
getter in the runoff.
Louisiana Democrats are demoralized, caught between the perception
of post-hurricane incompetence surrounding their standard bearer,
Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who is not running for re-election,
and corruption allegations against senior elected officials like
William J. Jefferson, the congressman from New Orleans.
Leading Democrats begged off the governor's race, and Mr. Jindal's
opponents are from the second tier, trailing so badly in polls that
Mr. Jindal has ignored most of the scheduled debates among
candidates, leaving the challengers to take grumbling verbal shots
at his empty chair.
The prize is not necessarily an enviable one: Louisiana is the
nation's poorest state, measured by per capita income; one of its
unhealthiest; the worst in infant mortality; and the least educated.
It is last in attracting new college-educated workers. Tens of
thousands of people remain displaced by Hurricane Katrina, the
police department in New Orleans still operates largely out of
trailers, and neighborhoods are still trying to rebuild.
"The storms didn't cause all of our problems - they revealed a lot
of our problems," Mr. Jindal said in a brief interview this week.
"It's an incredible opportunity to change the state."
But he is not a natural fit for Louisiana. The state likes its
governors to know the fundamentals of the Cajun two-step, speak some
derivation of French patois, and at least get to a duck blind,
regularly and publicly. But Mr. Jindal has labored assiduously to
overcome the disadvantage of being a non-Cajun, Rhodes Scholar
policy wonk whose given name was Piyush, and who has a penchant for
31-point plans.
He is a born-again Roman Catholic who has suggested that teaching
intelligent design as an alternative to evolution may not be out of
place in public schools, favors a ban on abortion and opposes
hate-crimes laws. Conservative views aside, the slightly built
congressman is anything but a backslapping good ol' boy.
He lost to Ms. Blanco in 2003 largely in places like this,
Washington Parish, a hardscrabble rural area 70 miles north of New
Orleans, where voters openly expressed unease four years ago about
opting for someone of Mr. Jindal's race. In areas where the Ku Klux
Klan leader David Duke won in the 1991 governor's race - here and in
the deeply conservative parishes of north Louisiana - Mr. Jindal
lost.
But by Wednesday, three days before Mr. Jindal's second attempt at
the governor's mansion, he was greeted here, if not with great
warmth, at least without alarm. The congressman, tossing souvenir
cups from a fire truck in a town parade, was met with shouts of "Hey
Bobby!" from the rural whites lining the route.
Mr. Jindal picked out familiar faces in the crowd, greeted the
sheriff like an old friend and posed for a picture with man sporting
a Confederate flag tattoo.
For months, the congressman has cultivated the rural areas where he
lost in 2003, "witnessing" in remote Pentecostal churches,
neutralizing his image of being hyperqualified - head of the state
health department at 24, head of the university system at 28 and
under secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services at
30 under President Bush - that did not help him the last time. In
one recent debate, Mr. Jindal boasted that he had made 77 trips to
north Louisiana since announcing his candidacy.
Insinuations about his excessive intellectual capacity are still
being made. "It's not going to be about the smartest person in this
race," Walter Boasso, a Democratic state senator and one of Mr.
Jindal's opponents, said recently. But such remarks do not seem to
be catching on with voters apparently weary of bumbling at the
Capitol in Baton Rouge and at City Hall in New Orleans.
This time, Mr. Jindal is aiming his multipoint plans at ethical
reform in state government, schools and economic development, and
attacks on his wonkishness have fallen flat. Mr. Jindal kept a low
profile after Hurricane Katrina, but opponents are not attacking him
for that either, perhaps because few others in Louisiana's political
class have stepped up.
Mr. Jindal told a group in Jefferson Parish this week that he had
"150 specific proposals," after rattling unflinchingly through a
good many in a 12-minute speech.
He makes a particular case for a "war on corruption," as he puts it,
in Baton Rouge, proposing to tighten financial disclosures on
lobbyists and legislators and to prohibit business relationships
between legislators and the state. He promises to build up
infrastructure like ports, to devote attention to research
universities and promote technical training. He hardly mentions Mr.
Bush, a sharp contrast to four years ago when he often boasted of
his connections to the president.
Past governors have charged into Baton Rouge promising reform only
to founder in the change-resistant Legislature. Mr. Jindal will most
likely face long odds too, if he fulfills the near-universal
prediction that he will come out on top.
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