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...Republican trying to become the Governor of Louisiana, David Treen, 51, faced an electorate that was 95% Democratic. What was more, no Republican had been elected to the office since Reconstruction. But last week the four-term Congressman defeated liberal Democrat Louis Lambert...
...both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
...Lambert, backed by labor and blacks, has updated Huey Long. As chairman of the Louisiana public service commission, the same office that propelled Long into the governorship, Lambert has regularly opposed hikes in utility rates, even though many of his decisions were overturned by the courts...
...other major Democratic candidates in the primary have thrown their support to Treen, whose buttoned-down conservatism they prefer to Lambert's unbuckled populism. In a televised debate, Lambert strongly implied that Treen had offered to pay off the campaign debts of House Speaker Edgerton L. ("Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully...
Community groups are unhappy. They don't want any nitrogen dioxide--even amounts federal authorities have determined to be safe--floating into their backyards. The groups argue that after a DEQE hearing officer issued a decision, other officials shouldn't have chimed in. Michael Lambert, co-counsel for the Mission Hill residents, reflects the bottom line feelings; "Once Harvard gets the diesels in," he says, "they'll never take them down or shut them off." The community has visions of teeming hordes of Harvard-trained-and-hired lawyers streaming into courthouses, keeping the diesels running no matter how much nitrogen...