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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...
Duke looks too young, at 40, to have founded so many racist organizations and journals and to have run for so many offices -- twice for the state senate (as a Klan member), twice for the presidency (as a Democrat and then as a Populist), once for the vice presidency (in New Hampshire), once for the state legislature (as a Republican) and now for the Senate (as a Republican without the party's endorsement). Even as a Klan member, he won 33% of the vote in his 1975 Senate race. As an overnight Republican, he won 51% in his runoff victory...
...bookish loner in school, Duke sought out extremist mentors who treated him as a brilliant young disciple. With contemporaries he was condescending or defiant, moving to a deeper rhythm of history than they could be aware of, trying to shock them into submission with "street theater" involving swastikas and Klan robes...
...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...