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In 2010, Teepell took a three-month leave of absence to work nationally in campaigns for the Republican Governors Association, of which Jindal became the chairman two years later. Jindal's executive counsel and later Teepeol's successor as chief of staff, Stephen Waguespack, subsequently the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, was the acting chief of staff while Teepell was away.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-chief-of-staff-back-after-gop-campaign-work/|title=Jindal chief of staff back after GOP campaign work|date=November 8, 2010|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

In 2010, Teepell took a three-month leave of absence to work nationally in campaigns for the Republican Governors Association, of which Jindal became the chairman two years later. Jindal's executive counsel and later Teepeol's successor as chief of staff, Stephen Waguespack, subsequently the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, was the acting chief of staff while Teepell was away.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-chief-of-staff-back-after-gop-campaign-work/|title=Jindal chief of staff back after GOP campaign work|date=November 8, 2010|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

 

In 2012, Teepell, along with [[John White]], Jindal's appointee as Louisiana education superintendent who left the position in 2020, and Chas Roemer, a son of former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]] and the then president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, became involved in the promotion of Jindal's educational reform package<ref name=edanderson/> of expanded [[charter school]]s, [[education vouchers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bobby-jindal-war-with-feds-over-school-vouchers-still-on-97281.html|title=Bobby Jindal: War with feds over school vouchers still on|date=September 24, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> and enhanced teacher evaluations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bobby-jindal-is-governing-like-its-2016-87736_Page2.html|title=Bobby Jindal is governing like it's 2016, February 17, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

In 2012, Teepell, along with [[John White]], Jindal's appointee as Louisiana education superintendent who left the position in 2020, and Chas Roemer, a son of former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]] and the then president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, became involved in the promotion of Jindal's educational reform package<ref name=edanderson/> of expanded [[charter school]]s, [[education vouchers]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bobby-jindal-war-with-feds-over-school-vouchers-still-on-97281.html|title=Bobby Jindal: War with feds over school vouchers still on|date=September 24, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> and enhanced teacher evaluations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bobby-jindal-is-governing-like-its-2016-87736_Page2.html|title=Bobby Jindal is governing like it's 2016, February 17, 2013|publisher=politico.com|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

 

In 2011, Jindal hired one of Teepell's younger brothers, Taylor Teepell, as the governor's deputy for legislative affairs and thereafter as deputy chief of staff under Stephen Waguespack.<ref name=govstatela>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3691|title=Governor Jindal Announces New Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Affairs Director, Intergovernmental Affairs Director|date=October 12, 2012|publisher=gov.state.la.us|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Taylor Teepell was the director of the Louisiana Republican Party's Victory Fund in 2011 and is a former advisor to the former chairman of the Republican National Committee [[Haley Barbour]], also a former governor of [[Mississippi]].<ref name=govstatela/>​

In 2011, Jindal hired one of Teepell's younger brothers, Taylor Teepell, as the governor's deputy for legislative affairs and thereafter as deputy chief of staff under Stephen Waguespack.<ref name=govstatela>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&catID=2&articleID=3691|title=Governor Jindal Announces New Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Affairs Director, Intergovernmental Affairs Director|date=October 12, 2012|publisher=gov.state.la.us|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> Taylor Teepell was the director of the Louisiana Republican Party's Victory Fund in 2011 and is a former advisor to the former chairman of the Republican National Committee [[Haley Barbour]], also a former governor of [[Mississippi]].<ref name=govstatela/>​

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In 2011, Jindal named Matt Parker (born 1984), formerly of Virginia, and Teepell's borther-in-law as his intergovernmental affairs director and then in 2012 assigned Parker as the legislative affairs director.<ref name=govstatela/>  Parker had been Jindal's 2011 campaign manager when the governor, with more than $9 million in campaign funds at his disposal,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-fundraising-report-to-show-9-2m-on-hand/|title=Jindal fundraising report to show $9.2M on hand, February 15, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against a large field of otherwise politically unknown candidates.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Governor), October 22, 2011.</ref> In 2010, Parker had worked on the gubernatorial campaign of [[Rick Scott]] of[[ Florida]], who became the junior U.S. Senator in 2019.<ref name=jindalhires/>​

In 2011, Jindal named Matt Parker (born 1984), formerly of Virginia, and Teepell's borther-in-law as his intergovernmental affairs director and then in 2012 assigned Parker as the legislative affairs director.<ref name=govstatela/>  Parker had been Jindal's 2011 campaign manager when the governor, with more than $9 million in campaign funds at his disposal,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-fundraising-report-to-show-9-2m-on-hand/|title=Jindal fundraising report to show $9.2M on hand, February 15, 2011|publisher=WBRZ-TV|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref> polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] against a large field of otherwise politically unknown candidates.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Governor), October 22, 2011.</ref> In 2010, Parker had worked on the gubernatorial campaign of [[Rick Scott]] of[[ Florida]], who became the junior U.S. Senator in 2019.<ref name=jindalhires/>​

 

In 2012, Timmy Teepell worked in the campaign of Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]], then of Louisiana's Baton Rouge-based 6th congressional district who in 2014 unseated Democrat U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kpel965.com/tags/timmy-teepell/|author=Brandon Comeaux|title=Rep. Cassidy Hires Jindal's Top Campaign Strategist for Reelection Effort|date=February 15, 2012|publisher=KPEL (AM) ([[Lafayette]])|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>In the spring of 2013, Teepeel abruptly departed the Cassidy campaign as Cassidy prepared to challenge  Landrieu's bid for a fourth term.<ref name=jimbrown/>​

In 2012, Timmy Teepell worked in the campaign of Republican [[U.S. Representative]] [[Bill Cassidy]], then of Louisiana's Baton Rouge-based 6th congressional district who in 2014 unseated Democrat U.S. Senator [[Mary Landrieu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kpel965.com/tags/timmy-teepell/|author=Brandon Comeaux|title=Rep. Cassidy Hires Jindal's Top Campaign Strategist for Reelection Effort|date=February 15, 2012|publisher=KPEL (AM) ([[Lafayette]])|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>In the spring of 2013, Teepeel abruptly departed the Cassidy campaign as Cassidy prepared to challenge  Landrieu's bid for a fourth term.<ref name=jimbrown/>​

 

Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia,  correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]],  by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date= January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia,  correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]],  by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date= January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>​

 

In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative)  [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by Republican [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6863564-125/riser-claims-fec-mistaken|title=Riser claims FEC mistaken|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 14, 2013|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican Vance McAllister, a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then  Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>{Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref> McAllister served less than a year in office, caught up in a crippling sex scandal.

In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative)  [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by Republican [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6863564-125/riser-claims-fec-mistaken|title=Riser claims FEC mistaken|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 14, 2013|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican Vance McAllister, a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then  Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>{Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref> McAllister served less than a year in office, caught up in a crippling sex scandal.