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- NATION, Page 25American NotesLOUISIANAParty Pooper
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- "The most important things in life have nothing to do with
- party," said Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer last week after
- abandoning the Democrats for the G.O.P. The move could save his
- political neck in a three-way re-election race next fall
- against Republican State Representative David Duke, an ex-Ku
- Klux Klan leader, and former Governor Edwin Edwards.
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- The White House encouraged the switch of the
- Harvard-educated Roemer, 48, who was known as a fiscal
- conservative and social moderate while serving in Congress from
- 1980 to 1988. But the change by no means assures his victory,
- even though white supremacist Duke has been disavowed by the
- Republican leadership and the flamboyant Edwards was paraded
- before the public in the course of two corruption trials that
- ended in acquittal. In Louisiana politics, being a scoundrel is
- not necessarily a liability.
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