This is not exactly Orange County related, but I think it is worth mentioning on this blog to highlight the ongoing effort of the GOP to recruit and promote minority candidates within our party. This is one of the few successes:
The result just came in with 92% of ballots counted, Congressman Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican is carrying 53% of the vote against 11 other candidates - enough to win outright and avoid a runoff in November. Democrat Kathleen Blanco, the incumbent governor, opted not to run for re-election after her disastrous handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
This is certainly an impressive win for Jindal as he demonstrated his ability to attract votes from different segments of the state, instead of relying on one ethnic bloc of voters, not that Louisiana is known to have a large Indo-American community anyway.
When Congressman Jindal takes office in January, he will become America's youngest governor in office, at the age of 36. He will also be Louisiana's first non-white governor since Reconstruction.
Can we get George Andrews' reaction to this?
Posted by: Cow | October 20, 2007 at 10:11 PM
I'm waiting to see how the Dems are going to say that the Republican Party is the party of white, southern racists.
Posted by: Anon | October 20, 2007 at 10:44 PM
I agree it's a good thing, and you have to report it, but on race I want to honor what he says, "People want to make everything about race. The only colors that matter here are red, white and blue.”
I hope this is the beginning of the end of the hyphenated American. Hooray for Bobby! And hooray for Louisiana.
Posted by: Patricia | October 21, 2007 at 07:52 AM
Go Harry Sidhu!
Posted by: OC xex | October 21, 2007 at 11:30 AM
His race is irrelevant.
What matters is what he stands for.
Posted by: Alex | October 21, 2007 at 12:42 PM
He was born in Louisiana. He's 36. That means there's a slim but not improbable chance he can make a run for the White House in a dozen or so years.
If he does well in LA - which might be a miracle - I don't know how their congress is set up - he's sure to be a front-runner.
But his Big Headache is going to be New Orleans.
Posted by: ZZMike | October 22, 2007 at 01:05 PM