When he was 15, 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.
[7] This was done in reaction to members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketing at the funerals of military casualties of the Iraq invasion and occupation.
"[10] Goyle successfully introduced House Bill 2374, which draws down $69 million in federal stimulus dollars for the state's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund.
[14] In March 2010, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee added Goyle's name to its "Red to Blue" list of the strongest candidates running for Republican held seats.
Pompeo's campaign-affiliated Twitter account shared, then deleted, a link to an article vilifying state Representative Raj Goyle, his Cleveland, Ohio-born, Indian-American opponent as, "Just like his evil Muslim communist USURPER comrad, Barrack Hussein Obama.
This Goyle character is just another 'turban topper' who could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc who knows"..."we don't need in congress or any political office that deals with the US Constitution, Christianity and the United States of America!!!
[16] On election day, Goyle was defeated by Pompeo by a large 22% margin, 58% to 36% in what was considered to be a nationally favorable climate for Republicans.
[17] On July 24, 2004, he married Monica Kumari Arora, an attorney and daughter of retired public school teachers in Middletown, Orange County, New York.