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Title: Bobby Jindal announces US Presidential bid
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URL Source: http://www.abplive.in/World/2015/06 ... -announces-US-Presidential-bid
Published: Jun 24, 2015
Author: IANS
Post Date: 2015-06-24 23:50:40 by Hondo68
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"I'm running for President of the United States of America. Join me," he tweeted with a link to his campaign site shortly after noon ahead of a planned formal announcement in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner Wednesday evening. "A Special Announcement From Bobby Jindal. My name is Bobby Jindal, and I am running for President of the United States of America. There were three people I think you would agree my wife Supriya and I had to tell first," said a second tweet. Jindal's tweet came shortly adviser Curt Anderson told reporters at a morning briefing: "We get into the race at 5 o'clock tonight," A hidden-camera style video of the governor telling his kids about his decision to run followed. His daughter quickly leveraged the information, requesting a puppy as her share of the deal. "OK, if we move into the White House, you can have a puppy," Jindal told his daughter. Jindal joins an already crowded field of Republican candidates including Jeb Bush, Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee, former governors of Florida, Texas and Arkansas respectively, US Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina; and real estate mogul Donald Trump. Once viewed as a rising star of the Republican party, Jindal, 44, who was the youngest American governor when first elected in 2007, is now polling toward the bottom of the Republican field, registering at just 1 percent in the latest CNN/ORC poll this month. Analysts suggested that he faces an uphill task in his campaign and even faces the prospect of being eliminated from Fox News's presidential debates starting August 6 as the channel has decided to limit it to the top 10. Jindal, who received wide support from Indian-Americans in his Congressional and gubernatorial campaigns, seems to have lost much traction with the community since he recently declared that he was tired of hyphenated Americans. His parents, he declared, "They weren't coming to raise 'Indian-Americans.' They were coming to raise Americans." As Pearson Cross, a political science professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who is writing a book on him told the Washington Post: "There's not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal." The Louisiana-born son of immigrant parents from India, Jindal converted from Hinduism to Christianity as a teen, and was later baptised a Catholic as a student at Brown University. The Rhodes scholar was the second Indian-American to be elected to the US House of Representatives in 2004 after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat, in 1957. He was re-elected to the Congress in 2006 before making his second run for governor in 2007. He was re-elected in 2011. Poster Comment: We need a Hindu-Catholic anchor baby?
Washington: Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal on Wednesday made his much- anticipated entry into the 2016 White House race via Twitter making him the first Indian-American and 13th Republican candidate to do so.
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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
This moron did not want to federal money to monitor volcanoes in Alaska and he said this when one was going off if I recall. No thanks.
Please source your claim. Thanks.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/jindal.volcanoes/ Gov. Bobby Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming (CNN) -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's swipe at federal spending to monitor volcanoes has the mayor of one city in the shadow of Mount St. Helens fuming. "Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?" Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. "We have one that's very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently." Jindal singled out a $140 million appropriation for the U.S. Geological Survey as an example of questionable government spending during the GOP response to President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night. The governor, a rising Republican star, questioned why "something called 'volcano monitoring' " was included in the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus bill Obama signed earlier this month. "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington," Jindal said. But Marianne Guffanti, a volcano researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey, said, "We don't throw the money down the crater of the volcano and watch it burn up." The USGS, which received the money Jindal criticized, is monitoring several active volcanoes across the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. One of those is Mount St. Helens, about 70 miles north of Vancouver, Washington, and neighboring Portland, Oregon. USGS researchers are also keeping a close eye on Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano, about 100 miles from Anchorage, which is predicted to go off again within a few months. Its last eruption, in 1989, disrupted air traffic and forced down a commercial jet that sucked ash into its engines. "If we can give good information about what's happening, that system of diversions and cancellations all works much more efficiently," Guffanti said. "And fewer people are delayed and standard business is resumed quickly." Louisiana is no stranger to natural disasters itself, having been devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But Timmy Teepell, Jindal's chief of staff, said the governor stands by his statement. "That was just one example of wasteful spending in the largest government spending bill in history," Teepell said. "The governor made it clear that we need to grow jobs, not government." iReport.com: Share your thoughts on Obama, Jindal speeches The $140 million line-item for the USGS includes not only monitoring, but also replacement of aging equipment "and other critical deferred maintenance and improvement projects." The spending could provide new jobs "no different than the amount of money you would spend on building a street or building a bridge or something," said Danny Boston, an economist at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Pollard, a former Army officer who has served as Vancouver's mayor for 14 years, said USGS equipment used to keep tabs on volcanoes is frequently damaged or destroyed. He said he wasn't sure how many jobs the money could produce, but, "For us and the people who live closer to it than Vancouver, it's important." iReport.com: Jindal's tone 'insulting' "We lost lives the last time, and we could lose them again," he said.
Thanks. Never heard of this. Why a Gov. from LA would even weigh in on this is a bit out of the norm.
He was called out for it because it was in his debut speech to the nation and it may have been as simple as his handlers who write speeches scanned the law for any hint of wasteful spending - found nothing but this earmark designed to help monitor volcanoes (this may have happened around the time Iceland's volcanoes shut down air travel to Europe) and thought they could make political hay out of it. But it also points to this stupid notion that GOP adopted that everything the govt is bad and wasteful - especially stuff like science based volcano monitoring.
Although I see it odd for a LA Gov. commenting at the time on a federal budget item for another state, I do see why he commented on the 'packaging' of the measure for Alaska. I think it was more an opposition on 'how' things are rammed into the budget than it is 'what' is in the budget.
I think it was more an opposition on 'how' things are rammed into the budget than it is 'what' is in the budget. Which is a stupid argument. Spending bills have always been like this. The money was needed and this bill was about to pass as law and save time and effort added on. If it makes Jindal feel better it probably added some jobs for geologists, seismologists in the process.
No, not stupid. Stupid is how the omnibus measures are drafted to ensure everyone gets their pork. For that Jindl is correct. He could have picked many other items but probably focused on this one as it did not fit a stimulus package. What stimulus is there in granting money to federal project? That seems to be more a ideological difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals see government as the be all to stimulate the econonomy. Just saying 'well that's the way things get passed' is exactly what Jindl was addressing. Why was a volcano monitoring in a stimulus package? Good question and even better given the price tag.
Whats the difference if it gets passed alone or as part of a stimulus? It is one of these BS Orwellian things the GOP think tanks come up with like renaming estate taxes into "death taxes" in a way to mind fuck the GOP base. There is no difference where spending is attached on a bill. When you go buy stuff on a credit card you don't have one credit card for foods and one for shampoos and one for shoes. Calling a bill a name is for press release purposes to draw attention to it - it's not really every been a practice that a spending bill has to be a one spending topic only bill. It makes for good political hay to demagogues though.
#24. To: Pericles (#22)
Yes there is and both sides play that game. What does a swimming pool for a Puerto Rico childrens camp have to do with a bill funding defense...Nothing, but that happens.
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#3. To: Pericles (#2)
#4. To: redleghunter (#3)
#13. To: Pericles (#4)
#14. To: redleghunter (#13)
Thanks. Never heard of this. Why a Gov. from LA would even weigh in on this is a bit out of the norm.
#16. To: Pericles (#14)
#17. To: redleghunter (#16)
Although I see it odd for a LA Gov. commenting at the time on a federal budget item for another state, I do see why he commented on the 'packaging' of the measure for Alaska.
#18. To: Pericles (#17)
Which is a stupid argument. Spending bills have always been like this.
#22. To: redleghunter (#18)
What stimulus is there in granting money to federal project?
Replies to Comment # 22. There is no difference where spending is attached on a bill.
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