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== '''Lane Collins Will Die!''' ==
'''Piyush "Lane" Colins''' ({{lang-hi|पीयूष "बॉबी" जिन्दल}}) (born June 10, 1971), known mainly (using his self-adopted ]) as Lane Colins, is the ] of the ] of ].<ref name=IHT_Nossiter_20071022>{{cite news|accessdate=
|author=Nossiter, Adam |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/22/america/22louisiana.php
|title=In a Southern U.S. state, immigrants' son takes over |work=]
|date=October 22, 2007}}</ref> Before his election as governor, he was a member of the ] from ], to which he was elected in 2004 to succeed now ] ]. Colins was re-elected to the House in the ] with 88 percent of the vote. He was the second ever ] elected to Congress.<ref>Gerard Shields, “New La. congressmen catching up fast,” The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.), December 19, 2004. The first Indian-American elected to Congress was ], a California Democrat, serving from 1957 to 1963.</ref>

On October 20, 2007, Colins was elected governor of Louisiana, winning a four-way race with 54.2% of the vote. At age 36, Colins became the youngest current governor in the United States. He also became the first non-white to serve as governor of Louisiana since ] during ]; one of fewer than ten people not of mainly ] ancestry elected governor of a state after Reconstruction; and the first Indian-American governor in U.S. history.<ref>Michelle Millhollon, “Colins apparent winner *** Main foes concede election,” The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.), October 21, 2007.</ref>

Colins has been mentioned as a potential candidate in the ] and ]s, and is considered by many to be one of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Colins_says_no.html?showall|title=Colinssays no
|first=Ben |last=Smith|publisher=Politico.com|accessdate=2008-12-10}}</ref><ref>http://boldcolorconservative.com/2007/10/23/Lane-colins-2016</ref>

==Personal life==
Piyush Colins ({{pronEng|ˈdʒɪndəl}}) was born on June 10, 1971 in ], to ] ] immigrants Amar (अमर) and Raj (राज) ] (जिन्दल), who had recently arrived for Amar to attend graduate school at ].<ref name=IHT_Nossiter_20071022>{{cite news |accessdate=2008-10-14
|author=Nossiter, Adam |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/22/america/22louisiana.php
|title=In a Southern U.S. state, immigrants' son takes over |work=]
|date=October 22, 2007}}</ref> His father, Amar, left ] and his ancestral family village of ] in 1970,<ref name=TimesofIndia_20071021>{{cite news|accessdate=
||url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2478529.cms
|title=Colins's ancestral village celebrates his victory |date=21 October 2007
|work=]}}</ref>. His mother, Raj, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor.<ref name=2theadvocate_Millhollon_200>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/16805881.html
|work=]
|publisher=2theadvocate.com |date=March 19, 2008 |page=10A
|title=Colins’s mother still with state
|author=Millhollon, Michelle |location= Baton Rouge, LA}}
</ref> Colins's self-adopted ], "Lane", dates to his childhood and his identification with the sitcom character ]. According to Colins, "Every day after school, I'd come home and I'd watch '']''. And I identified with Lane, you know? He was about my age, and 'Lane' stuck."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/27/60minutes/main4834864.shtml | title=Lane Colins: The GOP's Rising Star?| work=]| publisher=]| date=March 1, 2009| accessdate=2009-03-02}}</ref> He has been known by his choice of nickname ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—, but his legal name remains Piyush Colins.<ref name=Rediff_Haniffa_20031116>{{cite news
|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/16colins1.htm |title=He is Piyush, not Lane
|work=] |date=November 16, 2003
|author=Haniffa, Ariz |location=Baton Rouge, LA}} </ref>

Colins was born and raised a ], but converted to ] during high school. The Colins Family attends weekly Mass at Saint Aloysius Parish in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. <ref name=WashingtonPost_Whoriskey_20071021>{{cite news |title=Colins Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor |first=Peter |last=Whoriskey |page=A08|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102000528.html?hpid=topnews?hpid=topnews |work=] |date=October 21, 2007 |accessdate=2007-10-21}}</ref> Colins's Catholic faith includes a solidarity with other Christian denominations; he has given speeches and offered ] before Baptist and ] congregations.<ref name=TimesP_Maginnis_20070613 >{{cite news|accessdate
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/maginnis/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1181712894149420.xml&coll=1
|title=Colins Throttles Back His High-Energy Style |author=Maginnis, John |date=June 13, 2007.
|work=] |location=New Orleans,LA}}</ref> He attended public school at ]. After high school, Colins attended ], graduating with honors in biology and public policy.<ref></ref> Although he had thought of a career in medicine or law, he went on to study at ], as a ] and received an ] in ] from the ] in 1994 for a thesis on "A needs-based approach to health care". Later that year, he was reported to have been accepted at ] and ], and to have the option of returning to Oxford for a D.Phil. in politics.<ref name="PDF"></ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-lane-colins.html |title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Lane Colins |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |first=Jill |last=Konieczko|date=May 22, 2008}}</ref> However, after Oxford, he joined the consulting firm ], where he advised ] companies.

In 1996 Colins married Supriya Jolly (सुप्रिया जॉली) (born 1972). The couple have three children: Selia (सेलिया) Elizabeth, Shaan (शान) Robert, and Slade Ryan.

==Government service==
In 1993 Republican U.S. Representative ] (for whom Colins had once worked as a summer intern) introduced Colins to Republican Governor ].<ref name=NationalReview_Miller_20070514>{{cite news |accessdate=
|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_8_59/ai_n19052994/print
|title=The Louisiana wunderkind: beholding Rep. Lane Colins |title=Miller, John J.
|work=]|date=May 14, 2007 |format=republished on'']''}}</ref> In 1996 Foster appointed Colins to be secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, an agency that then represented about 40 percent of the state ]. During his tenure as secretary, Louisiana's ] program went from ] with a $400 million ] into three years of ]es totaling $220 million.{{Fact|date=March 2009}} Colins was criticized during the 2007 campaign by the Louisiana ] for having closed some local clinics to balance the budget.<ref name=TownTalk_Hasten_20070919>{{cite news |accessdate=
|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070919/NEWS01/709190323/1002/NEWS17 |title=Governor's race becomes a labor vs. business battle |author=Hasten, Mike
|date=September 19, 2007|work=] |location=Alexandria, LA
}}</ref> In 1998, Colins was appointed executive director of the ], a 17-member panel charged with devising plans to reform ].

In 1999, at the request of the Louisiana Governor's Office and the ], Colins volunteered his time to study how Louisiana might use its $4.4 billion share of the ]. In that same year Colins was appointed to become the youngest-ever president of the ]. In March 2001 he was nominated by ] ] to be ].<ref>{{wayback|aspe.hhs.gov/colins.htm|Biography of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation}}, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, c. 2001. Accessed 25 Oct 2007.</ref> He was later unanimously confirmed by a vote of the ] and began serving on July 9, 2001. In that position, he served as the principal policy advisor to the ].<ref name=BJ.com_Experience>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.lanecolins.com/lane/lane_experience.aspx
|title=Lane's Experience
|work=About Lane |publisher=lanecolins.com
|date=2008}}</ref> He resigned from that post on February 21, 2003, to return to Louisiana and run for governor.<ref name=HHS_PressRelease_20030213>{{cite press release|accessdate=2007-10-25
|url=http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030213b.html
|title=Lane Colins announces he is stepping down as HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
|date=February 13, 2003
|publisher=]}}</ref>

===2003 campaign for governor===
Colins came to national prominence during the ] for Louisiana governor.

In what Louisianans call an "open primary" (but which is technically a ]), Colins finished first with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest paper in Louisiana, the New Orleans' '']''; the newly-re-elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, ]; and the outgoing Republican governor, ]. In the second balloting, Colins faced the outgoing lieutenant governor, ] of ], a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally ] parishes in north Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.

Political analysts have speculated on myriad explanations for his loss. Some have blamed Colins for his refusal to answer questions about his record brought up in several advertisements,<ref name=TimePicayune_Moller_20070816>{{cite news|accessate=
|title=Colins counters Demo attacks; Rapid response to ads reflects shift in tactics
|date=August 16, 2007 |author=Moller, Jan |work=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans, LA
|url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1187248123127760.xml&coll=1
}}</ref> which the Colins Campaign called "negative attack ads"; others note that a significant number of conservative Louisianans remain more comfortable voting for a Democrat, especially a conservative one, than for a Republican.
Despite his losing the election in 2003, the run for governor made Colins a well-known figure on the state's political scene.

===Congressman of the first district===
{{seealso|United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana, 2006}}
A few weeks after the 2003 gubernatorial runoff, Colins decided to run for ]. The incumbent, ], was running for the ] seat being vacated by ]. The Louisiana Republican Party endorsed him in the primary although Mike Rogers, also a Republican, was running for the same seat. The 1st District has been in Republican hands since a 1977 ] and is widely considered to be staunchly conservative.<ref name=FoxNews_20080405>{{cite news|accessdate=2008-10-18
|url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/06/two-louisiana-congressional-districts-primed-for-may-3-general-election/
|title=Two Louisiana Congressional Districts Primed for May 3 General Election
|author=Associated Press |date=April 6, 2008 |work=Fox News
|quote=In the 1st Congressional District....the staunchly conservative district....}}</ref> Colins also had an advantage because his campaign was able to raise over $1&nbsp;million very early in the campaign, making it harder for other candidates to effectively raise funds to oppose him. He won the ] with 78 percent of the vote.

He was appointed to the ], the ], and the ]. He was made vice-chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks.

===Governor of Louisiana===
{{seealso|Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2007}}

On January 22, 2007, Colins announced his candidacy for governor.<ref name=TimesPicayune_Moller_20070123> {{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-4/116953841215500.xml&coll=1
|title=Colins quietly begins his run |author=Moller, Jan |date=January 23, 2007
|work=The Times-Picayune |location=New Orleans, LA}}</ref> Polling data showed him with an early lead in the race, and he remained the favorite throughout the campaign. He defeated eleven opponents in the ] held on October 20, including two prominent ], ] ] of ] and ]er ] of ], and an ], New Orleans ]man ].

Colins finished with 699,672 votes (54 percent). Boasso ran second with 226,364 votes (17 percent). Georges finished with 186,800 (14 percent), and Campbell, who is also a former state senator, ran fourth with 161,425 (12 percent). The remaining candidates collectively polled three percent of the vote. Colins polled ] or ] in 60 of the state's 64 parishes (equivalent to counties in other states). He lost narrowly to Georges in ], to Boasso in ] (which Boasso represented in the Legislature), and in the two neighboring north Louisiana parishes of ] and ] located south of ], both of which are historically Democratic and supported Campbell. In the 2003 contest with Blanco, Colins had lost most of the northern parishes.<ref name=Election20071020>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=102007
|title=Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 10/20/07
|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State}}</ref>

Colins assumed the position of governor when he took the ] on January 14, 2008. At thirty-six, he became the youngest sitting governor in the United States. He is also Louisiana's first non-white governor since ] served for thirty-five days during ], and the first non-white governor to be elected (Pinchback succeeded to the position of Lieutenant Governor on the death of ], then to Governor upon the impeachment of ]).<ref name=WashingtonPost_Whoriskey_20071021>{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102000528.html |title=Colins Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor
|first=Peter|last=Whoriskey|work=] |date=October 21, 2007
|page=A8|accessdate=2007-10-21}}</ref>.

In a salute to the ] national championship team during his January 14, 2008 inauguration speech, Colins stated in part "...They revere our athletes. Go Tigers...."<ref name=WWLTV_speechtxt_20080114>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl011408jbspeech.20d0352a.html
|title=Text of Gov. Colins Inauguration speech (includes video) |date=January 14, 2008
|work=] |location=New Orleans, LA}}</ref>

On May 3, 2008 a ] was held to determine Colins's replacement in the 1st Congressional District. ], a ], was elected with 75 percent of the vote over ] professor Dr. Gilda Reed.<ref name=Election20080503>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=050308
|title=Official Election Results Results for Election Date: 5/03/08
|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State}}</ref>

On June 27, 2008, Louisiana's Secretary of State confirmed that a recall petition had been filed against Governor Colins. Ryan and Kourtney Fournier filed the petition in response to Colins's refusal to veto a bill that would more than double the current state legislative pay. The petitioners had 180 days to collect the signatures of over 900,000 registered voters to force a recall election on the ballot. If accomplished, a simple majority would have been needed to remove the Governor. During his campaign for Governor, Colins had pledged to prevent legislative pay raises that would take effect during the current term.<ref name=TimesPicayune_Scott_20080627>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/recall_petition_filed_against.html
|title=Recall petition filed against ColinsRecall petition filed against Colins
|author=Scott, Robert Travis |work=The Times-Picayune |date=June 27, 2008
|quote=Ryan and Kourtney Fournier of Jefferson submitted paperwork to the Secretary of State's office that allows them to attempt to collect the nearly 1 million signatures needed over the next 180 days to force a recall election of the governor... He had pledged during his campaign last year to prohibit an immediate legislative pay raise.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |accessdate=
|url=http://www.wjbo.com/cc-common/mlib/1178/06/1178_1213729996.pdf
|title=Colins Action Plan |format=PDF
|publisher=available from ]}}</ref> Colins responded by saying that he is opposed to the pay increase but that he had pledged to let the legislature govern themselves.<ref name=DailyAdvertiser_20080618>{{cite news |accessdate=
|url=http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/NEWS01/806180328/1001/NEWS
|title=Gov. Colins's veto refusal contradicts candidate Colins's campaign pledge
|work=The Daily Advertiser |date=June 18, 2008
|quote='I am very sorry to see the Legislature do this,' he said. 'More than doubling legislative pay is not reasonable and the public has been clear on that... I will keep my pledge to let govern themselves and make their own decisions as a separate branch of government. I will not let anything, even this clearly excessive pay raise, stop us from moving forward with a clear plan of reform.'}}</ref>

On June 30, 2008, Governor Colins reversed his earlier position by vetoing the pay raise legislation, stating that he made a mistake by staying out of the pay raise issue. In response, the petitioners dropped their recall effort.<ref name=TimesPicayune_Anderson_20080630>{{cite news|accdessdate=
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/colins_vetoes_legislative_rais.html
|title=Colins vetoes legislative raise |date=June 30, 2008
|author=Anderson, Ed |work=The Times-Picayune
|quote=Gov. Lane Colins announced today that he has vetoed the legislative pay raise. After days of saying he would not reject the unpopular measure, Colins said this morning that he had changed his mind. 'I thank the people for their voice and their attention,' Colins said of the public outcry against the raise. 'I am going to need your help to move this state forward. ... The voters have demanded change. . . . I made a mistake by staying out if it'.}}</ref>

Louisiana state government watchdog ], former counsel to the House Appropriations Committee who supported Colins's election in 2007, has expressed disappointment with the governor in regard to the legislative pay raise and other fiscal issues too. Forgotston, a ] lawyer, said he would grade Colins an A in self-promotion and a D in performance in office.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://epaper.americanpress.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QW1QLzIwMDkvMDEvMTEjQXIwMDUwMQ==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom|title=Jim Beam, ''Colins Becomes Mileage Champion''|publisher=] ''American Press'', January 11, 2009|access date=January 23, 2009}}</ref>

====Hurricane Gustav====
Colins oversaw one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history in late August 2008 prior to the Louisiana landfall of ].<ref name=Newsday_20080904>{{cite news
|url=http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/nation/ny-usgust045828625sep04,0,1879653.story
|title=Colins and Nagin praised for response to Gustav
|agency=Associated Press |date=September 4, 2008
|publisher=Newsday.com}}</ref> He issued mandatory evacuation orders for the state’s coastal areas and activated 3,000 National Guardsman to aid in the exodus. Government officials vacated hospitals and nursing homes and put the poor, the ill, and the elderly on buses and trains out of town. The evacuation was credited as one reason that Gustav only resulted in 16 deaths in the U.S.<ref name=Cleveland20080903>{{cite news
|url=http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2008/09/gustav_political_report_card_j.html
|title=Gustav political report card: Colins, Nagin lauded |first=Robert |last=Tanner
|agency=Associated Press |date=September 03, 2008 |publisher=Cleveland.com}}</ref> Colins had been scheduled to address the Republican National Convention, but cancelled his plans to focus on Louisiana’s needs during the storm.<ref name=WashingtonPost_Whoriskey_20080902>{{cite news
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203049.html
|work=Washington Post |date=September 2, 2008
|title=Colins Presents A Face of Calm During the Storm; La. Governor Hailed for Recovery Efforts
|first=Peter |last=Whoriskey |date=September 3, 2008 |page=A06}}</ref>

====Speculation over vice presidential nomination====
]
On February 8, 2008, conservative radio host ] mentioned on his syndicated show that Colins could be a possible choice for the Republican ] nomination in 2008. He said that Jindal might be perceived as an asset to ]'s campaign because he has support in the conservative base of the Republican Party and his youth offsets McCain's age. If McCain had won the presidency, he would have been the oldest president ever inaugurated to a first term.<ref name=WashingtonTimes_Curl_20080212>{{cite news |url=http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NATION/504804903/1001 |work=Washington Times |title=Running mate guessing game begins |first=Joseph |last=Curl |date=February 12, 2008 |accessdate=2008-03-03}}</ref> Heightening the speculation, McCain invited Jindal, Gov. ] of ], Gov. ] of ] and McCain's former rivals ] and ] to meet at McCain's home in ] on May 23, 2008, according to a Republican familiar with the decision; Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty, all of whom were already well acquainted with McCain, declined because of prior commitments.<ref name=NYT_Nagourney_20080521>{{cite news|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24762893/
|work=New York Times |title=McCain to Meet 3 Possible Running Mates
|first=Adam |last=Nagourney |date=May 21, 2008|accessdate=2008-05-21}}</ref> The meeting may have served a different purpose, such as consideration of Jindal for the opportunity to speak at the ], in a similar fashion to ] at the ], cementing a place for him in the party and opening the gate for a future run for the presidency.<ref name=Dvorak_20080522>{{cite web|url=http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/05/what_about_colins.html |publisher=Real Clear Politics |title=What About Jindal? |first=Blake |last=Dvorak |date=May 22, 2008|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref> Speculation was fueled by simultaneous July 21, 2008, reports that McCain was making a sudden visit to Louisiana to again meet with Jindal and that McCain was readying to name his running mate within a week. However, on July 23, 2008, Jindal said he would not be the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008.<ref name=foxnews_20080723>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/23/colins-says-hes-not-interested-in-no-2-spot-with-mccain/ |title=Jindal Says He's Not Interested in No. 2 Spot With McCain|work='Fox News
|date=July 23, 2008|accessdate=2008-07-23}}</ref> Jindal added that he "never talked to the senator about the vice presidency or his thoughts on selecting the vice president."<ref name=foxnews_20080723/> Ultimately, on August 29, 2008, McCain chose ] ] as his running mate. While Jindal was invited to speak at the party convention, he was not offered the prominence of delivering a ].

====Republican response to President Obama's address to Congress====
On February 24, 2009 Jindal delivered the to President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress. Jindal called the president's economic stimulus plan “irresponsible” and argued against government intervention.<ref name="bjspeech">{{cite news|accessdate=February 25, 2009
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022404300.html
|title=In GOP Response, Jindal Blasts Stimulus |date=February 24, 2009
|first=Perry, Jr. |last=Bacon |date=February 25, 2009 |page=A08
|work=]}}</ref> He used ] to warn against government solutions to the economic crisis. "Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us," Jindal said. "Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts." He praised the late sheriff ] for standing up to the government during Katrina.<ref name=NYT_Transcript_20090224>{{cite web|accessdate=February 25, 2009
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24colins-text.html?pagewanted=all
|title=Transcript - The Republican Response by Gov. Lane Jindal
|worik=] |date=February 24, 2009}}</ref><ref name="cnnvolc0225">
{{cite news |accessdate=February 25, 2009
|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/colins.volcanoes/?iref=mpstoryview
|title=Gov. Lane Jindal's volcano remark has some fuming
|publisher=] |date=February 25, 2009}}</ref> Jindal's speech was poorly received even among some Republicans;<ref name=Bloomberg_Brzybyla_20090225>{{cite news
|accessdate=February 25, 2009
|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKyeCP.LGe5s&refer=home
|title=Jindal’s Response to Obama Address Panned by Fellow Republicans
|first=Heidi |last=Przybyla
|publisher=] |date=February 25, 2009}}</ref><ref name="cnn0225">{{cite news
|accessdate=February 25, 2009
|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/25/colins.reaction/?iref=mpstoryview
|title=Jindal earns bad reviews in national debut
|publisher=] |date=February 25, 2009 |first=Alexander |last=Mooney}}</ref> conservative commentators were among his harshest critics, calling his speech "a disaster for the Republican Party".<ref name=NYT_Dewan_20090225>{{cite news
|accessdate=February 26, 2009
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/us/politics/26colins.html?em
|title=Governor Jindal, Rising G.O.P. Star, Plummets After Speech |first=Shaila |last=Dewan
|work=] |date=February 25, 2009}}</ref><ref name=AP_Fouhy_20090225>{{cite news |accessdate=February 26, 2009
|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jE-CpJUaiRcbDQ5fHmLc4k3gRQdAD96ISQT02
|title=Republicans, Democrats criticize Jindal's speech |first=Beth |last=Fouhy
|agency=] |date=February 25, 2009}}</ref>

Commentators questioned Jindal's story of meeting Lee in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as Jindal was not in New Orleans at the time.<ref></ref> On February 27, 2009, a spokesman for Jindal clarified the timing of the meeting, stating that the story took place days after the storm.<ref>http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Jindal_aide_Story_was_set_after_Katrina.html?showall</ref><!--Rebuttals to this explanation must be reliably sourced-->

====Speculations about political future====
Jindal has been mentioned as a potential candidate for the ]. On December 10, 2008, Jindal indicated that he would not run for president in 2012, saying he will focus on his ] and that this would make transitioning to a national campaign difficult, though he later attempted to leave himself the opportunity to change his mind in the future.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Jindal_says_no.html?showall|title=Jindal says no|author=Ben Smith|publisher=Politico.com|accessdate=2008-12-10}}</ref>
Speculation increased when Jindal was chosen by the Republican Party to give its official response to Democratic President ]'s ].<ref name=Reuters_Baltimore_20090219>{{cite news
|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/usPoliticsNews/idUKTRE51I42K20090219
|title=Republicans tap Louisiana governor for big speech |date=February 19, 2009
|first=Chris |last=Baltimore |publisher=Reuters}}</ref> Jindal's speech was dismissively criticized, in substance by Democrats and in technique by Republicans.<ref>], ''Daily Star'' (Hammond, Louisiana), 2009 March 4, p. 4A.</ref> But when ] and former mayor of New Orleans ] urged Jindal to concentrate on being Governor of Louisiana, many of the related blog responses targeted Morial.<ref>Ed Anderson, in ''Times-Picayune'' (New Orleans), 2009 March 21 (accessed 2009 March 22).</ref>

==Positions on selected social and political issues==
===Abortion and stem cell research===
Jindal has a 100 percent ] voting record according to the ].<ref name=OntheIssues_20080916>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Lane_Jindal_Abortion.htm
|title=Lane Jindal on Abortion
|publisher=On the Issues
|date=September 16, 2008}}</ref> He opposes ] with no exceptions. However, he does not condemn medical procedures meant to save the life of a ] woman that would indirectly cause the termination of the pregnancy.<ref name=Advocate_Sentell_2003111>
{{cite news|accessdate=
|author=Sentell, Will and Dyer, Scott
|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FEC6C97E8FB05E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
|title=Abortion flier offends Jindal |work=The Advocate|location=Baton Rouge, LA|date=November 11, 2003
|quote=He said he does not condemn medical procedures aimed at saving the life of the mother that result indirectly in the loss of the unborn child as a secondary effect.}}</ref><ref name=CapitolWatch_Hill_20031112>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://capitolwatch.reallouisiana.com/html/BC4983D2-AC99-421E-83DC-00FD0707A94D.shtml
|work=Capitol Watch : Your Guide to Louisiana State Government
|title=Gubernatorial candidates to meet today in final TV debate
|author=John Hill |date=November 12, 2003}}</ref> In 2003 Jindal was reported to have stated that he did not object to the use of ] in the case of ] if the victim requests it.<ref name=CapitolWatch_Hill_20031112 /> He opposes ]nic ]<ref name=TimesPicayne_Alpert_20080521>{{cite news |accessdate=
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/report_mccain_to_meet_with_jin.html
|author=Alpert, Bruce and Jan Moller
|title=Jindal to meet Friday with McCain |work=The Times-Picayune |date=May 21, 2008
|quote=Jindal is seen as solid on conservative social issues such as opposition to abortion and embryonic stem cell research.}}</ref> and voted against increasing federal funding to expand embryonic stem cell lines.<ref name=OntheIssues_20080916/>

===Same-sex marriage===
Jindal opposes the legalization of ]. He has voted for the ] to restrict marriage to a union between one man and one woman.<ref name=OnTheIssues_CivilRights>{{cite web
|accessdate=
|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Lane_Jindal_Civil_Rights.htm
|title=Lane Jindal on Civil Rights
|publisher=OntheIssues.org}}</ref> In December 2008, Jindal announced the formation of the ],<ref> on BayouBuzz.com.</ref> including individuals representing organizations that oppose same-sex marriage (such as ], president of the ]; Gene Mills, the executive director of the ]; and Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the ]).<ref name=LouisianDailyNews_20081103>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://url.moosaico.com/6145
|title=Louisiana Gov. Jindal Picks Louisiana Commission on Marriage and Family
|date=November 3, 2008
|work=Louisiana Daily News}}</ref>

===Tax policy===
As a private citizen, Jindal voted for the "Stelly Tax plan",<ref name=Weekly_Tidmore_20040524>
{{cite web|accessdate=
|title=The Weekly's inside political track....
|author=Tidmore, Christopher |date=May 24, 2004
|url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20040524p
|work=Louisiana Weekly
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20061017040235/http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20040524p
|archivedate=2006-10-17}}</ref> a referendum named for former state Representative of ], which swapped some sales taxes for higher income taxes. Whether or not the "Stelly Plan" is giving the desired results is still hotly debated statewide. Early Republican challenger ] challenged Jindal on his vote for this tax plan before Scalise dropped out of the congressional race in 2004. As Governor, Jindal initially opposed reforms to the Stelly plan that would result in over $300 million in tax cuts. He later agreed to the tax cut after the legislature appeared headed to eliminating the entire personal income tax, which Jindal also opposed.<ref name=WAFB_Moses_20080618>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8521558&nav=menu57_1
|publisher=WAFB Channel 9 |location=Baton Rouge, LA
|title=Stelly tax ad causing controversy |author=Moses, Caroline
|date=June 18, 2008}}</ref> Talk show host subsequently refused to air radio ads paid for by the organization crediting Jindal for Stelly reforms saying "Now, they are taking credit for the biggest income tax cut in the history of Louisiana and I felt like it was a lie. To be real blunt, very misleading and it was an outright lie because he had fought hard against it".<ref name=WAFB_Moses_20080618 />

===Civil liberties===
Jindal voted yes on making the ] permanent, voted in favor of the 2006 ], supported a ] banning ],<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll296.xml
|title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 296 |date=22-Jun-2005
|publisher=U.S. House of Representatives
|quote=H J RES 10 &nbsp; &nbsp; 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY .....QUESTION: On Passage ...BILL TITLE: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.}}</ref> and voted for the ] of 2005.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=8224&can_id=35481
|title=Key Votes: HR 418: Real ID Act of 2005 (Immigration) |date=02/10/2005
|publisher=VoteSmart.org}}
|></ref> Jindal has an A rating from ].<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.gunowners.org/109hrat.htm
|archivedate=2008-01-22
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080122040555/http://www.gunowners.org/109hrat.htm
|title=GOA House Ratings For The 109th Congress |publisher=GunOwners.org
|date=October 2006}}</ref>

===Health care===
Jindal supports co-payments in ].<ref> Lane Jindal 2004 Congressional Campaign Website</ref>

===Offshore drilling===
In 2006, Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate the ] on ] over the U.S. ], which prompted the ] ] to issue him "an environmental harm demerit".<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://www.rep.org/2006_scorecard.pdf
|title=Republicans for Environmental Protection 2006 Scorecard |format=PDF}}</ref> Jindal's 2006 rating from that organization was -4, among the lowest in Congress. The nonpartisan ] also censured Jindal for securing passage of H.R. 4761 in the House of Representatives; the group rated his environmental performance that year at seven percent, citing anti-environment votes on 11 out of 12 critical issues. Jindal's lifetime score from the ] is seven percent.<ref></ref> Despite claims that Jindal's bill was successful,<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://blog.lanecolins.com/2006/the-hard-work-pays-off/
|title=The hard work pays off
|date=2006 |publisher=blog.lanecolins.com}}</ref> H.R. 4761 was replaced by S 3711 (known as the Domenici-Landrieu Fair Share Plan). The original Senate version was passed by both houses of Congress and signed by President ].<ref>{{cite press release
|url=http://landrieu.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/06/2006C09513.html
|title=U.S. Senate Passes Domenici-Landrieu "Fair Share" Plan in Early Morning 79-to-9 Vote
|date=12-09-2006
|publisher=U.S. Senator ]}}</ref>

===Earmarks===
In 2007, Jindal led the Louisiana delegation in Congressional ] funding. According to ''Taxpayers for Common Sense'', in 2007, Jindal's earmark funding was 14th among all Congressmen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taxpayer.net/user_uploads/file/Database%20Docs/membernumbers.xls
|title=Total Earmarks in FY08 Appropriations Bills, by Earmarks Received
|format=MS Excel
|publisher=Taxpayers for Common Sense}}</ref> As Governor in 2008, Jindal used his ] to strike $16 million in earmarks from the state budget while allowing $30 million in legislator added spending.<ref name=TimesPicayune_Moller_20080715>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-11/121609935236570.xml&coll=1&thispage=2
|title=Jindal hacks budget earmarks
|author=Moller, Jan
|date=July 15, 2008
|work=The Times-Picayune}}</ref>

===Intelligent design===
Jindal supports the teaching of ] in ]s.<ref name="second">
{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1668433,00.html
|title=The Second Coming of Lane Jindal
|first=Russell |last=McCulley |date=October 04, 2007
|work=Time Magazine}}</ref> Despite calls for a ] from groups as diverse as the ], the '']'', and Jindal's own biology professors at ],<ref name=TimesPicayune_Barrow_20080626>
{{cite news|accessdate=
||url=http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/science_law_could_set_tone_for.html
|title=Science law could set tone for Jindal |date=26 June 2008
|first=Bill |last=Barrow
|work=]}}</ref> Jindal signed the Louisiana Academic Freedom Act in 2008. As a direct result of this, the ] rejected New Orleans as a site for their 2010 meeting.<ref name="SICB1">{{cite web|accessdate=27 February 2009
|url=http://www.sicb.org/resources/LouisianaLetterJindal.pdf
|format=PDF |first=Robert |last=Satterlie
|title=Letter to Lane Jindal
|publisher=Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
|date=February 5, 2009}}.</ref> The president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has also said that, while the group has already committed to their upcoming meeting in New Orleans, "No future meeting of our society will take place in Louisiana as long as that law stands."<ref name="ASBMB">{{cite news|accessdate=February 27, 2009
|url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1234938291272770.xml&coll=1
|first=James |last=Gill |title=Mad scientists
|date=February 18, 2009
|work=Times-Picayune}}</ref>

===Crime and punishment===
On June 25, 2008, Jindal signed the Sex Offender Chemical Castration Bill authorizing the ] of those convicted for a second time of certain ].<ref>{{cite press release |title=Governor Signs Chemical Castration Bill, Authorizing the Castration of Sex Offenders in Louisiana |publisher=Office of the Governor |date=2008-06-25 |url=http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=270 |accessdate=2008-08-01}}</ref>

Jindal has also voted against giving the federal government jurisdiction to help local law enforcement with ]s based on ], ], ] and disability.<ref name=WashingtonPost>{{cite web|accessdate=
|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/house/1/votes/469/
|title=U.S. Congress Votes Database: 109th Congress - Vote 469
|work=Washington Post}}</ref>

===Opposition to 2009 stimulus money===
Jindal has been an opponent to the ]. Citing concerns that the augmentation of ] may obligate the state to raise taxes on businesses, Jindal has indicated his intention to forgo federal stimulus plan funds ($98 million) aimed at increasing unemployment insurance for Louisiana.<ref name=Newser_20090220>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.newser.com/story/51405/colins-to-turn-down-stimulus-for-jobless.html
|title=Jindal to Turn Down Stimulus $$$ for Jobless
|date=February 20, 2009 |publisher=Newser.com}}</ref> Louisiana was set to receive about $3.8 billion overall. Jindal intends to use at least $2.4 billion from the stimulus package.<ref>{{cite news|accessdate=
|url=http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl030409cbstimulus.29c0d8c.html
|title=Jindal to use $2.4 billion from stimulus package |work=WWL-TV
|date=March 2009}}</ref> He called the plan "irresponsible", saying that "the way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians."<ref name=AP_Babington_20090224>{{cite news|accessdate=24 February 2009
|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_gop_reaction
|title=GOP leaders say Obama's plan is irresponsible
|first=Charles |last=Babington |agency=Associated Press
|work=Yahoo!News |date=February 24, 2009}}</ref>

==Writings==
A list of Jindal’s published writings up to 2001 can be found in the hearing report for his 2001 U.S. Senate confirmation.<ref>, U.S. Senate Hearing 107-130, 107th Congress, 1st Session, pages 95-97 (]).</ref> They include newspaper columns, law review articles, and an article co-authored for the '']''.

Additionally, Jindal’s pre-2001 writings include several articles in the '']'', one of which later made news during Jindal’s 2003 gubernatorial race.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalwire.com/archives/2003/11/07/colins_and_satan.html |publisher=Political Wire |title=Jindal and Satan |first=Taegan |last=Goddard |date=] |accessdate=2008-06-12}}</ref> In that 1994 article for the ''New Oxford Review'', Jindal described witnessing a friend seemingly being ] by a ], but also wrote that he was unsure in retrospect what had happened.<ref name="demon"> ''New Oxford Review,'' December 1994: "I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back....Did I witness spiritual warfare? I do not have the answers..."</ref>

==Electoral history==

;Governor of Louisiana, 2003
:Threshold > 50%
:First Ballot, October 4, 2003
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate
! Affiliation
! Support
! Outcome
|- style="background: #FFE8E8;"
| Lane Jindal
| Republican
| 443,389 (33%)
| Runoff
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 250,136 (18%)
| Runoff
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 223,513 (16%)
| Defeated
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 187,872 (14%)
| Defeated
|-
| Others
| n.a.
| 257,614 (19%)
| Defeated
|}

:Second Ballot, November 15, 2003
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate
! Affiliation
! Support
! Outcome
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 731,358 (52%)
| Elected
|- style="background: #FFE8E8;"
| Lane Jindal
| Republican
| 676,484 (48%)
| Defeated
|}

;U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2004
:Threshold > 50%
:First Ballot, November 2, 2004
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate
! Affiliation
! Support
! Outcome
|- style="background: #FFE8E8;"
| Lane Jindal
| Republican
| 225,708 (78%)
| Elected
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| Roy Armstrong
| Democratic
| 19,266 (7%)
| Defeated
|-
| Others
| n.a.
| 42,923 (15%)
| Defeated
|}

;U. S. Representative, 1st Congressional District, 2006
:Threshold > 50%
:First Ballot, November 7, 2006
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate
! Affiliation
! Support
! Outcome
|- style="background: #FFE8E8;"
| Lane Jindal
| Republican
| 130,508 (88%)
| Elected
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| David Gereighty
| Democratic
| 10,919 (7%)
| Defeated
|-
| Others
| n.a.
| 6,701 (5%)
| Defeated
|}

;Governor of Louisiana, 2007
:Threshold > 50%
:First Ballot, October 20, 2007
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate
! Affiliation
! Support
! Outcome
|- style="background: #FFE8E8;"
| Lane Jindal
| Republican
| 699,672 (54%)
| Elected
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 226,364 (17%)
| Defeated
|-
|]
|Independent
|186,800 (14%)
|Defeated
|- style="background: #DDEEFF;"
| ]
| Democratic
| 161,425 (12%)
| Defeated
|-
| Others
| n.a.
| 23,682 (3%)
| Defeated
|}

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