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Weiss, Joanna. "Jindal's Creationism Problem ; JOANNA WEISS; Joanna Weiss." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 2013. HighBeam Research. 11 Jun. 2014 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Weiss, Joanna. "Jindal's Creationism Problem ; JOANNA WEISS; Joanna Weiss." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). 2013. HighBeam Research. (June 11, 2014). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34181421.html
Weiss, Joanna. "Jindal's Creationism Problem ; JOANNA WEISS; Joanna Weiss." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2014 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34181421.html
The first time Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that the GOP needed to "stop being the stupid party" -- in an interview with Politico last fall, a few days after the presidential election -- I got an e-mail from Zack Kopplin.
I had just written that Jindal was an intriguing potential face of the GOP: young, smart, Indian-American, with Southern roots and a background in health care wonkery. Kopplin, a 19-year-old college student from Baton Rouge, wanted to remind me that Jindal had signed the Louisiana Science Education Act, the Orwellian-named law that permits creationism to be taught in Louisiana public schools.
That fact doesn't always come up in national snapshots of Jindal, but the "stupid" line has become one of the governor's trademarks: He repeated it last week in a widely covered speech to the Republican National Committee. …
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