LA-GOV: Meet Tim Teepell, Jindal's #2
By Vladimir Posted in 2007 | Louisiana — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Competitive Spirit Drives Jindal's Top Gun
How long until Timmy Teepell is branded "Bobby Jindal's Karl Rove"?
Teepell is the 32 year-old father of six who is serving as Jindal's transition team leader and future chief-of-staff.
[E]ven though Teepell is a product of home schooling who never went to college and is far younger than most people in his position, he is hardly a political novice.In one form or another, he has been preparing for his new job ever since volunteering for his first state legislative race at the age of 15. He has spent the better part of two decades as a foot soldier for conservative Christian causes, raising money, formulating strategy and managing campaigns, culminating with Jindal's historic, 37-point win on Oct. 20.
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[snip][Teepell] was introduced to Michael Farris, an influential Christian conservative who is one of the fathers of the home-school movement. Farris, who would go on to found the nation's first four-year college designed specifically for Christian home-schoolers, Patrick Henry College, was putting together a lobbying organization and asked Teepell to help.
At the age of 18, when his peers were attending college, Teepell moved to suburban Washington, D.C., to work for Farris, learning the art of grassroots fundraising and organizing.
Jindal's campaign was criticized for being aloof and coasting on the polls. Hardly:
"There's no doubt that he emerged from part of the conservative movement that is much more grassroots-oriented than other parts" of the GOP, Farris said. "Timmy rose through groups that are used to raising $10 and $20 and $50 and $100 rather than $1,000. That was his first introduction to politics."Teepell's work at the Madison Project led to a stint at the Republican National Committee, where he served as deputy political director, until he signed on with Jindal just as he was gearing up to run for Congress in 2004.
The lessons he had learned as a shoestring organizer paid off. Rather than discussing the campaign's issues or strategies, Teepell appears most proud of the grassroots support he was able to generate. He said Jindal's campaign volunteers knocked on more than 2.4 million doors in the months leading up to the Oct. 20 primary, including 750,000 in the final week. [emphasis added]
Stay tuned. These guys are gonna shake things up a little bit...
Homeschooled Christians will be the new, improved Christian right. While the old-school religious right and conservatives were unholy tied to the failed government school system, corrupted to their core by the belief that this was a proper function of government, homeschoolers have the intellectual capacity and moral fortitude to cast off this bondage.
I believe my children's children will have clear choices to make in selecting political leaders. And the Bush/Clinton dynasties of corruption and socialism will be replaced by a dynasty of Christian homeschooled leaders who will fear the Lord and serve their fellow man with integrity, courage, and an absolute belief in human liberty that can only come from God.
After America has been bankrupted by socialism, fiscal conservatives (if there are any left who understand the purity and goodness of true capitalism) will only have a seat at the grace of this new force.
This generation will have failure as its only legacy -- failure to stop abortion on demand, failure to end the sexual decadency and homoeroticism that is targeting and destroying our children, failure to restore the notion that "a man who will not work, shall not eat", and failure to stop Islamic-fascism. I also believe Dobson and the bunch were too scared of losing their perceived influence and empire. Too afraid of losing to get behind one Presidential candidate. Too afraid to call a cult a cult. Too afraid to call a baby-killer a baby-killer. This will be their demise.
So you will see more Timmy Teepells in the near future, there is hope.
We don't actually tolerate religious bigotry here. Or conspiracy theories, come to think of it.
Ciao.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
He's a hardworking man and very organized. He has been with Jindal for a while and he's a good right hand man.
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