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Oct 23 Update - Our Grand Finale
BOBBY JINDAL MEETS HUEY LONG
ALSO: FIND OUT WHO WON THE "JINDAL IS GOOD" AWARDS
COMING IN 2008 - UNCLE EARL GETS HIS OWN WEBSITE... UncleEarlReturns.com
"Jindal is Good" is signing off
We tried really hard to make this year's gubernatorial election a little bit more interesting than it otherwise would have been. We also did what we could to get Bobby Jindal elected governor, so now the rest is up to him. We're confident that he is up to the task. So enjoy our last "Big Weekly Update" and get ready for Uncle Earl to finally get his own website next year. Who knew that Earl Long would be such an Internet sensation? I guess Uncle Earl was always ahead of his time.
Good Night and Goodbye from "Jindal is Good",
Josh Harvey
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Bobby Jindal is Good!
Support Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal. Let's get ready to welcome him to the Governor's Mansion come January 2008.
We the People of Louisiana are excited to have elected Bobby Jindal to be our next Governor. We're a mix of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Together, we helped Bobby Jindal win. GEAUX BOBBY J!
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October 23 Update
Our work here is finished. Now let's give out some awards...
"JINDAL IS GOOD" GIVES OUT (AND RECEIVES) PRESTIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AWARDS
Nobel, Pulitzer, Oscar recoginition yawners compared to these awards;
Bobby Jindal tops "Jindal is Good" recipients
While winning the governor's race has its benefits, bringing home an award from Jindal is Good is incomparable in every respect. So, without further ado, the prestigious Jindal is Good Awards for the 2007 Louisiana gubernatorial campaign are bestowed as follows:
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| Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal |
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The 142nd Annual Abraham Lincoln Award for Most Improved Candidate...
BOBBY JINDAL
From the moment of his loss to Stephen Douglas in 1856, Honest Abe tirelessly laid the foundation for his completely improbable election to the Presidency 4 years later. Similarly, Bobby Jindal didn't waste a minute defining and overcoming his 2003 campaign shortcomings. This year's "Abe" goes to the youngest governor in the United States, Bobby Jindal. |
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| President Abraham Lincoln |
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| Businessman John Georges |
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The 6th Annual Michael Bloomberg Award For Best First Time Candidate...
JOHN GEORGES
Like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, John Georges brought his own message to the forefront and stuck to a positive script. Maybe if John Georges runs against that pompous hypocrite David Vitter, we could help him out with a "Georges Is Gorgeous" website. Sounds like fun to us -- Great Uncle Zorba and "Crazy Ray" Nagin are fired up and ready to go! The opulent 2007 "Mikie" First-Timer Award clearly goes to New Orleans' own John Georges. |
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| New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg |
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| Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell |
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The 72nd Huey Long Lifetime Achievement Award...
FOSTER CAMPBELL
True to himself and his North Louisiana roots, our favorite Public Service Commissioner never wavered from his deeply held passionate point of view. Huey and Earl are proud of you -- and your personal favorite, Harry Truman, an unappreciated populist himself, is very proud too. To the man who puts the "P" in the word "Populist," this year's "Huey" goes to Foster Campbell. |
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| Governor Huey P. Long |
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| Businessman Walter Boasso |
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| The 59th Annual Thomas E. Dewey Award for "Please Spare Us From Any More Campaigns"...
WALTER BOASSO
Like New York's Governor Thomas Dewey who, against all odds, lost to President Truman in 1948, it is hard to figure exactly why we all hope we are spared from any more Boasso campaigns. There was nothing particularly wrong with the message, so it had to be the messenger. And Walter, don't blame our sentiments on ethnic prejudices, plenty Italian blood proudly courses though this webmaster's veins on his father's mother's side. The 2007 "Tommy" was exclusively earned by Walter Boasso. |
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| Famous loser Thomas Dewey |
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| Senator David Vitter |
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The 134th Annual Salmon P. Chase Award for Sanctimonious Narcissism...
DAVID VITTER
This lesser known award, originating with the death of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, who utilized his cabinet position every way possible to realize his ambitions to become President in 1864 in place of whom he considered a vastly inferior Mr. Lincoln, searches out a yearly recipient who has reached unparalleled heights of self-absorption and bad form. Honorable and decent men will never forget the junior senator from Louisiana scheduling his painful Jimmy Swaggart routine at the same time as Governor Jindal's statewide tour to officially kick off his campaign. This year, it was a cinch deciding the "Sleazy Salmon" goes to David Vitter. |
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| Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase |
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| Jindal is Good Webmaster Josh Harvey |
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The 112th Annual William Randolph Hearst "Yellow Journalism" Award...
JINDALISGOOD.COM
The competition for this year's highly coveted LSU Manship School of Mass Communication "Yellow Journalism" Award was, as usual, extremely intense. But the nominating committee gave our website the nod as a result of our "unmatched attention to accuracy and unsurpassed capacity for comprehensive and insightful research." By a hair, the 2007 "Willie" goes to JindalisGood.com.
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| Newspaper Magnate William Randolph Hearst |
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Here comes the final chapter of "The Jindal Chronicles"...
BOBBY JINDAL MEETS THE KINGFISH!
Uncle Earl introduces Bobby Jindal to his older brother Huey;
Huey and Earl warn the governor-elect, "We won't be content with mere reform." |
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| Governor Earl K. Long |
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As should have been expected, the nocturnal visitors had to reschedule for the next night. Apparently they forgot you don't get any sleep the night you are elected Governor of the State of Louisiana. But a well earned slumber finally came to Governor-Elect Bobby Jindal very late Sunday night after his first round 60 parish Saturday night triumph. It had been a long, long road to that moment. As soon as a restful, rejuvenating sleep enveloped him, the Congressman was awakened by that familiar, one of a kind gravelly voice. It was sorely missed Governor Earl Long.
"Well, son, you beat all them peckerheads fair and square. With style and punches to spare too. As a little celebration gift, I brung along somebody special for you to meet. And it weren't easy getting him out of where he is. Oh yeah!"
A second figure who obviously didn't like being in the shadows emerged. Dressed in an impeccably tailored sear-sucker holding a straw hat in his hands that clearly had never undertaken manual labor, it was none other than Huey Pierce Long, 35th Governor of the Great State of Louisiana. |
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| Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long |
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"Congratulations, Governor Jindal," the asassinated United States Senator said softly, "Do you want to touch the bullet wound in my side to make sure it is really me?"
"Aw Hell, Huey, cut that out. That's why they won't let you take no field trips."
"Seriously, Governor Jindal," the Kingfish continued, "I wanted to say what great hopes we all have for you."
"Come on Huey, you did not! You wanted to give him advice. You're not supposed to lie anymore, dammit." |
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| Huey Long's most famous speech was given under the Evangeline Oak |
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"Perhaps my excitable little brother is right, Governor. In the moment I have been permitted, I wanted to convey that Louisiana doesn't need a reformer. Its had its share of those. It needs a transformer. You have a historic opportunity to transform this state -- not just continue reforming it. Each of our times presents its own challenges. Mine were different than yours. Read my speech I gave under the Evangeline Oak.
...Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that have never come?
...Where are the roads and the highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before?
...Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled?
...Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it lasted only through one lifetime.
...Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations.
...Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here."
"Best damned speech ever, Huey," Governor Earl said with admiring enthusiasm. |
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| The Kingfish is buried on the grounds of the Louisiana State Capitol |
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"Those were my challenges," the elder Long said, "and we mastered them. Whatever they want to say about me, I transformed everything in this state by the time they laid me to rest. I had wiped a lot of those tears away by then."
"Oh yeah," Governor Earl interjected, "it was a new day when the Long brothers came to town. We wiped away way more tears than that sapsucker John McKeithen ever did. What was you thinking in that last debate when you said you wanted to be like Big John? The only things he ever did was build the Superdome and put a two mile runway near his house in Columbia. Hell, the Superdome was the biggest, corruptest honeypot since the Louisiana Lottery and all they got in Columbia is crop dusters. Who ya been listening to? Gus Weill on 'The Jim Engster Show?' Oh yeah."
"The point is, son," Governor Huey said as he again focused the conversation, "you know the challenges of your day and are keenly aware of what you need to do. My methods barely worked in my day; they certainly don't work in yours. You will have to lead differently. And don't succumb to the distractions like I did. I was always running around the country thinking I was so important. My brother Earl wiped so many more tears over the years than I because he was always watching out for the people -- at least when he didn't have his eyes on Blaze Starr."
"Oh yeah! She was an eyeful. Well sonny, I got to return him now. Remember, you the governor for all the people, not just the peckerheads and the sapsuckers. We're counting on you, son. Oh yeah!"
And then they were gone.
THE END
(for now)
Click here to read previous chapters of "The Jindal Chronicles"
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October 21 Update
"JINDAL IS GOOD" PREDICTIONS RIGHT ON THE MONEY
Exit polls show 99 percent of Boasso votes cast by mistake;
"Jindal is Good" endorsement worth 9.79 percentage points
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| Bobby Jindal gets crunk after his Saturday night election victory |
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(New York Times) Baton Rouge - October 21, 2007
New York Times exit poll interviews revealed only one political prognosticator called it completely right in yesterday's Louisiana's governor's race. According to exit poll interviews conducted by the New York Times in virtually every polling place across Louisiana and scientific compensation for widespread voter confusion as to a second place finisher, Jindal is Good webmaster, Josh Harvey, was determined to be the only political analyst to predict the election outcome within an unheard of statistical margin of error of .000015 percent. Political experts everywhere expressed amazement at the never before accomplished feat. The election resulted in the first candidate of Indian descent being elected to a state governorship in the history of the nation, 36-year-old Congressman Bobby Jindal, R-Kenner.
While a superficial review of the JIG predictions indicated a substantial variance between the forecasts and the election results, exit poll interviews revealed that 99 percent of the votes cast for the second place finisher, State Senator Walter Boasso, D and/or R-Arabi, were a mistake. Voters who said they cast their ballots for Boasso thought they were voting for James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award winning actor who portrayed Tony Soprano on the long running HBO hit series "The Sopranos." Gandolfini failed to qualify for the governor's race after complaining voters were confusing him with Boasso. When voters learned that their votes were mistakenly cast, they overwhelmingly stated they would have voted for another candidate. When the New York Times attributed the mistaken 208,690 votes according to corrected voter preferences, the Jindal is Good predictions turned out absolutely accurate: 67% for Jindal; 21% for businessman John Georges, I and/or R- New Orleans; 7% for Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, D-Elm Grove; 4% for former pop sensation Britney Spears, ?-Kentwood; and 1% for Boasso. |
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| Bobby Jindal smiles at the news of LSU's last-minute victory over Auburn |
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The exit poll interviews also reflected a substantial portion of Louisiana voters were steered toward Congressman Jindal as a result of an endorsement from the Jindal is Good website. According to preliminary examination of the exit poll interview data, the endorsement meant almost 10 percentage points to the Congressman who won in the first round of competition with 53 percent of the vote. However, analysts say additional review of the data may well indicate the endorsement had an even greater impact on the election returns. Georges, Boasso, Spears and Campbell all acknowledged, some more gracefully than others, that the Jindal is Good endorsement dashed any hopes for a run-off spot.
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| Bobby Jindal greets the Jindal is Good crew during the announcement of his gubernatorial bid |
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| In December, Josh found out firsthand that Bobby Jindal is Good. To learn more about this encounter, read "Josh meets Bobby J" (click on the image). |
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| The New Harveys of Hammond, Louisiana, know that "Bobby Jindal is Good!" |
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Disclaimer
We at "Jindal is Good!" are not employed by Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal 2007 or anyone associated with the Governor-Elect or his campaign. We do not receive funds from any source other than through t-shirt sales, and we don't make much money on the shirts. We are acting completely independently of Governor-Elect Jindal and his campaign committee (but we like to flatter ourselves and think that Bobby J checks our site for the Big Weekly Updates).
We are just a bunch of kids who have taken it upon ourselves to channel the considerable enthusiasm surrounding Governor-Elect Jindal. He is an accomplished and inspiring leader who has a firm understanding of Louisiana's many problems and more than a few ideas on how to address these issues. So join in the fun and help us get the word out about Bobby J! Look, we're not satisfied with the way our State is being run, but together we can do something about it. Let's get active and let's get vocal... the future of the Great State of Louisiana is in our hands.
Last Update: 10.23.07, 12:47 am CST
Webmaster: Josh Harvey - jharve1@lsu.edu.
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