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New La. gov. pledges to fight corruption By MELINDA DESLATTE,

Associated Press Writer

26 minutes ago

 

 

 

BATON ROUGE, La. - Republican Bobby Jindal was sworn in Monday as

Louisiana's 55th governor, and moved quickly to make good on a

campaign promise to clean up the corrupt image of this hurricane-

battered state.

 

 

" We have the opportunity — born of tragedy but embraced still the

same — to make right decades of failure in government, " Jindal said

in his inaugural speech, referring to hurricanes Katrina and Rita of

2005.

 

Jindal, a former congressman, became Louisiana's first nonwhite

governor since Reconstruction and the nation's first Indian-American

chief executive.

 

He said he will call a special legislative session Feb. 10 to address

the state's image as a haven for cronyism and self-serving

politicians.

 

" We can build a Louisiana where our leaders and our people set the

highest standards and hold every member of our government

accountable, a Louisiana where incompetence is not a synonym for

government, a Louisiana where corruption does not hold us back, " he

said without providing specifics.

 

Jindal, 36, a conservative Republican, won more than 50 percent of

the vote in October's primary election. He takes over from Democrat

Kathleen Blanco, who had defeated him four years earlier. Blanco

chose not to run after heavy criticism of her performance after

Katrina.

 

While Jindal has focused on fixing the state's shady reputation and

overhauling ethics laws, he inherits an array of problems that have

dogged his predecessors. Louisiana is among the nation's most

unhealthy and poorest states, its students still perform below

average on national educational tests and its population is dwindling.

 

Worsening the state's long-term history of problems, back-to-back

blows from hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated much of south

Louisiana and left New Orleans struggling to recover. The pace of

hurricane rebuilding has been sluggish, with thousands of homes left

abandoned, thousands of residents displaced and basic government

services destroyed.

 

The boyish-looking Jindal will be the youngest U.S. governor in

office, but he's used to being among the youngest people in the room

in his previous posts.

 

By the time he first ran for governor at age 32, Jindal already had

served as Louisiana's health care secretary, president of one of its

university systems and an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department

of Health and Human Services under President Bush. Republican former

Gov. Mike Foster tapped Jindal to be the state's health secretary in

1996, when Jindal was only 24.

 

Earlier Monday, newly elected legislators unanimously backed two of

Jindal's choices for leadership posts. Republican state Rep. Jim

Tucker was elected Speaker of the House, while Democratic state Sen.

Joel Chaisson was elected president of the Senate. Both were elected

without opposition.

 

On Sunday, Jindal attended a prayer service where churchmen from

around the state read scripture and offered support. Jindal, a Roman

Catholic who converted from Hinduism as a teenager, sat in a front

pew next to wife, Supriya, and other family members at St. Joseph

Cathedral in downtown Baton Rouge.