Gov. Bobby Jindal will join the Iowans for Freedom bus tour Wednesday in Mason City, Iowa to campaign against a judge who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.

The bus tour opposes the retention of Justice David Wiggins. Electors already voted out three other judges in Dec. 2010 who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.

Former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who won the Iowa caucuses, will also speak during the tour.

Some are concerned about why Jindal is focusing his time out-of-state.

“If he’s the governor of this state, he should be down here running it,” said Young Americans for Liberty president and political science and communication studies senior Kyle Aycock. “Louisiana has quite a few problems we could be focusing on.”

Spectrum member and petroleum engineering junior Clay Curry said equal marriage rights are not a political issue.

“I think it’s kind of irrelevant to him being governor of Louisiana,” Curry said.

Recent legislation in Louisiana concerning equal marriage rights includes a 2004 Amendment, approved by 78 percent of the voting population, that made it unconstitutional for the state to recognize same-sex marriage or civil union.

Associate professor of political science Robert Hogan said he doesn’t find Jindal’s move unusual.

“He’s doing it to burnish his conservative credentials in a state that is extraordinarily important in the current presidential election. It’s a place where he’d want to become well acquainted if he has aspirations to president one day,” Hogan said.

Jindal stated in a news release that “the election in November may be the most important in our lifetimes.”

“It’s critical we do everything we can to encourage conservatives to go to the polls and vote to uphold our values, freedoms, and rights,” Jindal said.

The 2010 election marked the first time since 1962 a judge in Iowa was not retained.

Instead of staying out of the conflict as it did in 2010, the Iowa State Bar Association is sponsoring a bus to follow the No Wiggins campaign.