Rajeev Kumar Goyle was born on June 9,1975 and is a Democratic politician from Kansas, who represented the 87th District in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.
10 Facts About Raj Goyle
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Raj Goyle's mother is an obstetrician and gynecologist and his father is a cardiologist who operates the Goyle Clinic in Wichita.
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When he was 15, Raj Goyle was an organizer in a community-wide recycling program that removed hundreds of pounds of garbage from the county landfill and led to a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.
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Raj Goyle attended Duke University where he was a member of a fraternity and was a student representative to a coalition of faculty and students aiming to improve working conditions on campus.
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Raj Goyle then went to Harvard Law School where he founded a small technology company with two classmates and where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
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Raj Goyle is an attorney and a lecturer at Wichita State University.
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Raj Goyle wrote the Kansas Funeral Privacy Act and introduced it on his first day in office, which includes the establishment of a 150-foot buffer zone around funerals one hour before, during and two hours after the end of a service to prevent protestors from engaging in public demonstration.
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Raj Goyle said third-party groups who attempt to influence the outcome of elections should be required to publicly disclose information about their finances.
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Under an amendment offered by Raj Goyle, groups spending more than $500 a year on issue advertisements naming a particular state or local candidate 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election would be subject to reveal information about their spending and donors in financial reports being filed with the state.
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Raj Goyle successfully introduced House Bill 2374, which draws down $69 million in federal stimulus dollars for the state's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund.