TheRedSoxWinThePennant wrote: "Yet Jindal had a funny (R) after his name. HUH! Thats weird. I wonder what party those three belong to?"
Simple explanation from the mind of the reporter... Everyone is supposed to be Democrat (it's the natural order of things, you know). So, when you're writing about someone who isn't a Democrat, you must point that out to all the readers. Like I said. Simple.
Baker is a city, as in Baker, Louisiana, home of the Bethany World Prayer Center. It is more R than D, however.