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<p>BATON ROUGE - Gov. Mike Foster charges on the radio that if Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco is elected governor, her husband "would be the most powerful man in Louisiana."</p> <p>Vernon Parish voter Neil Nash calls a news office to say he's voting for "that woman Blanco because we don't need this 32-year-old foreigner in the mansion."</p>

Alice Foster will not run for governor Louisiana Gannett News Posted on November 5, 2002 BATON ROUGE - First Lady Alice Foster's trial balloon ride was short-lived. After talking it over with Gov. Mike Foster over the weekend, she issued a statement Monday morning that seemed to shoot down a possible candidacy for governor. "A number of people suggested that I run for governor and asked me to seriously consider it," Alice Foster said. "There are many issues about which I care deeply and on whose behalf I have been very active for seven years. "However, I am a very...

Alice Foster says she 'would consider' bid for governor John Hill / Louisiana Gannett News Posted on November 4, 2002 BATON ROUGE - Friends have suggested to first lady Alice Foster that she consider running for governor to succeed Mike Foster in next fall's governor's race. "I would consider it," Alice Foster said from Oaklawn Manor, the Foster's antebellum mansion in coastal St. Mary Parish. "They have said, 'Why don't you run for governor and Mike run for lieutenant governor?' It's a great idea because I think we need Mike Foster somehow involved in the next administration." The governor, who...