Karen Dalton-Beninato: Straight Out of the '70s -- Gov. Bobby Brady and The Original Keith Partridge

Published: October 21, 2007, 4:33 pm

He has one southernism down. The next official in high office to go by a boys' name a la Jimmy Carter is Louisiana governor elect Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. At age 4, he adopted his nickname from the Brady Bunch. He's also the son of immigrants a la Barack Obama and a Hindi converted to Catholic. Jindal is next in a series of Republican governors since Mike Foster and the currently incarcerated Edwin Edwards, after the Democrat in office chose not to run again. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin endorsed Bobbie Jindal for governor over Democratic candidate Kathleen Blanco last time around and Bobby lost. These strained relations between the city and state continued after Hurricane Katrina hit, with a city, state and federal split down party lines with the Mayor in the middle. Right after the storm, as evacuees we heard a lot of "All those buses sitting empty. Aren't you mad at the mayor (of governor, depending on which version they heard)?" One social service agency representative told us

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