Word: klan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also pointed to the success of Louisiana legislator David Duke, a former grand wizard in the Ku Klux Klan who recently lost to Democrat J. Bennett Johnston in a campaign for the U.S. Senate...
Talk about bipartisanship. Until two days before the election, Ben Bagert was the Republican Party's official nominee to run for the Louisiana Senate seat held by three-term Democratic incumbent J. Bennett Johnston Jr. But state representative and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was also in the primary race as a Republican, running a campaign that played on white resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility...
Roemer would not comment extensively on David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan member who now serves in the state house and has said he might run for governor. But Roemer did vow to fight hard if Duke launched a campaign...
...typical of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, he likes to say, was tried for inciting to riot before he entered a state legislature. He claims without proof that the late U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland was a Black Panther. Those people were associated with violence, whereas "my branch of the Klan was nonviolent...
...woman at the L.S.U. game presses close to say "I'm for you, but my sister says she will never vote for a man who hates Catholics." He answers, with a smile, "When I was in the Klan, most of my members were Catholics" (as are most of the residents in his current district...