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Gingrich leads new GOP expansion effort focused on Indian-Americans

By Paul Bedard
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Gingrich leads new GOP expansion effort focused on Indian-Americans

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, targeting a traditional Democratic political base, is getting behind a new effort to bring Indian-Americans into the Republican Party.

He will be the honorary chairman of the “Republican Hindu Coalition,” fashioned after the influential Republican Jewish Coalition, and funded with an initial $2 million from Chicago businessman Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar, of AVG Advanced Technologies, an electronics firm.

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