Lay your money down: The collection of keepsakes Louisiana has been hawking for its 200th birthday celebration are selling well, bicentennial officials tell The Times-Picayune. Bicentennial items range from posters and CDs to commemorative coins and shotguns. You can check them all out here. Randy Haynie, a Baton Rouge lobbyist who serves as the bicentennial commission’s finance chairman and chief fundraiser, says he’s “being conservative” when he estimates sales will reach $100,000. Read the full story here.
Make your mark: Louisiana residents have until Oct. 9 to register to vote for the November election that includes presidential, congressional and local races. Secretary of State Tom Schedler says people can register to vote using one of several ways: online at GeauxVote.com; in person at their parish registrar of voters’ office; by mail; or at public assistance agencies, public schools, colleges and libraries. The next election is Nov. 6.
Feeling right at home: Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday urged roughly 65 conservatives clustered in a small downtown park in Marshalltown, Iowa, to make sure they vote this November in “what may be the most important election of our lifetimes,” the Des Moines Register reports. Jindal, who during the summer was said to be a possible vice presidential candidate, was the highlighted Republican guest star on day three of a weeklong bus tour organized by Iowans for Freedom. But Jindal spent roughly as much time fomenting frustration with President Barack Obama as he did criticizing Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins. Read the full story here.
