Bobby Jindal

Jindal scores rural trifecta

Jindal scores rural trifecta
Shreveport Times, July 24, 2008

He's not the Fifth Beatle, a race car driver, a blue collar comedian or a basketball dunker.

But Louisiana rookie governor Bobby Jindal did draw 250 locals on a hot late afternoon to a town hall meeting Tuesday in Vivian, population 4,300.

In the three-quarters-filled auditorium of Vivian Elementary/Middle School , Jindal spoke for about 25 minutes, took 10 questions and provided rapid-fire answers for the next half hour, then shook hands and had his picture taken with anybody who wanted one.

"I met the governor!"

Heard that a lot at the exit door. No one in Vivian's been able to say that in the city limits since Dave Treen visited in the early 1980s.

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