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Peace in the Middle East and Bosnia may be elusive, but the Clinton Administration has brokered a sensitive cease-fire in Louisiana. Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week...
...when I arrive. Tens of thousands of alternateens fill the park--most of them too young to vote--with pockets of older folks mixed in. There are a smattering of signs calling for "decriminalization," but the atmosphere is that of a huge party of very calm people. Letters to Cleo, an announcer tells us, is about to take the stage; I almost tripped over Robert Reich, but I can't even get close enough to Letters to Cleo to see them...
...rally included performances by big-name bands like Letters to Cleo and Tree as well as lesser-known alternative act like Bim Skala Bim and the Bentmen...
Young, black and liberal Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) will face millionaire Democrat-turned-Republican state Senator Mike Foster, 65, in a race that will determine the next governor of Louisiana. "In many ways this race is a quintessential example of Southern politics today," reports TIME's Adam Cohen. "The Democratic Party is becoming increasingly black, while moderate and conservative white democrats run to the Republicans. The challenge for the Democratic Party is to hold on to its strong black base without losing those white Democrats. They haven't been very successful so far. And Fields is a decided underdog...
Higginbotham is currently chief counsel for Congressional Representative Cleo Fields in the Louisiana congressional redistricting case...