I was just in Baton Rouge. I don’t think any of them can top the antics of Huey Long..
Louisiana politics has always fascinated me. Since the days of Huey P Long. Anyway rest in peace to Governor Roemer.
That 1991 race was one for the ages.
Roemer’s biggest problem was that he waffled on pro-life, I don’t remember if it was before or after he jumped parties, but I am thinking before.
This led to him finishing third in the jungle primary behind Duke and Edwards, and that race in turn produced one of the best bumper stickers ever “Vote for the Crook, it’s Important.”
Perhaps even better than the one floating around Florida in December of 2000: “If GOD had meant for us to vote, He would have given us candidates.”
Ah, cynicism.
>>David Duke, a one-term state Republican House member from Metairie who had been a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard in the 1970s.
David Duke was fomerly a Democrat and became a Democrat again and an independent. And he’s endorsed Democrats in the modern political era with little word from the press.
He even thinks one of the Fraud/Squad are the best person in Congress because she’s antisemitic too.
RIP.
Roermer classic RINO. No guts and no real beliefs