Piyush Jindal is trying to fool us so he can get elected!

Check out The Advocate article which spotlights him and Governor Blanco (notice the subtle promotion of Jindal to the same level as Blanco implicit in the title) 'Blanco, Jindal rap Bush SCHIP veto'
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/10223756.html?showAll=y&c=y

No other candidate for governor is even asked about whether they support SCHIP!

According to the article, Jindal is ready to go vote to overturn the Bush veto. He will save us! The top of the web page has a "Friends of Bobby Jindal" ad. Has the Advocate been bought by him? I would contact them and the reporter to see why he is getting top billing.

Sounds to me like he is using his representative job to bolster his race for Governor, and the Advocate is played for the fool.

Just like all Republicans, he touts a popular stand only because he is running for election/re-election.

What are Mr. Jindal's true views on SCHIP? Apparently he has none until now.
He was absent when SCHIP was reauthorized:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll906.xml

And if it did not come up again after Bush's veto he would not care, as he was absent "On "Postponing to a Date Certain", to bring it up again to try to overturn the veto:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll938.xml

He does have a record on another bill affecting children which he voted AGAINST, the "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007", which passed 225-204:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll787.xml

And what about hurricane ravaged Louisiana, which could certainly benefit from the "Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007"?
Again he was absent, too busy running for governor:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll921.xml

The truth is clear.
Piyush Jindal, trying to fool us so he can get elected!

seriously, the Ouachita Citizen, a/k/a/ the Paper of Record :sarcasm: , has twice admonished us that calling Piyush "Piyush" is tantamount to racism, 'cause we're doing it just to call attention to his Indian ancestry. :eyes:

Hence, I have coined the moniker "PBJ" (Piyush "Bobby" Jindal). Not only does it get the 'P' in there, it conjures up images of school lunchrooms in which the little twerp presumably had his lunch money stolen repeatedly.

http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2007/10/mookflash.html

I've come up with a new reference for mook-in-chief Jindal: "PBJ". As in Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, get it?

This way, a) we don't get called "racists" for referring to him by his given name, and b) we conjure up the image of schoolboy lunchboxes, and thereby of PBJ getting his lunch money taken every day, not so very long ago.

Posted by: KamaAina (yup, it's me)

"At age 4, Piyush Jindal changed his name to Bobby; the change was inspired by a character in the 'Brady Bunch' TV show. Since then, Jindal, now 32, has always introduced himself as Bobby.

His change of name -- and a subsequent change of religion -- have been raked up, by sections of the community, as black marks against the man.

Officially, however, he remains Piyush; that is the name on his Louisiana driving license, which he used as identification while casting his own vote in Kenilworth, the Baton Rouge neighborhood he grew up in. And it was as Piyush that polling officials at Kenilworth Middle School in Baton Rouge had him listed."

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/16jindal1.htm