Word: louisiana
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...half-century later, in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1876 the Democratic candidate, Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, won the popular vote. It appeared he had won the electoral vote too. But Southern states were still under military occupation, and electoral boards in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the Electoral College majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates was General Lew Wallace...
Traveling with Bush as he campaigned in Louisiana, Attlesey sidled up to the Governor after a press conference at a school in Metairie and asked him if he could clear the FBI background check administered to prospective employees. The standard questionnaire asks applicants if they have used illegal drugs in the previous seven years. Bush hemmed and hawed, giving Attlesey a non-answer, before slipping away to his hotel suite. But the Governor stewed about the question. A little later, Mark McKinnon, Bush's media director, called Attlesey in the hotel lobby and asked if he could take a copy...
...from both parties insisted they are ready to work not just with the President but with one another, using such strikingly similar language that both sides seemed to be reading from the same script. "Congress is going to be forced to cooperate whether we like it or not," said Louisiana Senator John Breaux, a leader of the centrist New Democrats. "It won't be a theory. It will be a necessity." Republican Mike DeWine of Ohio said, "The message from the people was, We want less wrangling and more bipartisan work...
DIED. JIMMIE DAVIS, thought to be 101, the "Singing Governor" of Louisiana; in Baton Rouge. Davis, who penned, by his own estimation, more than 400 songs, including You Are My Sunshine, served as an ineffectual segregationist Governor from 1944 to '48 and 1960 to '64. "He served two terms as Governor of Louisiana and was never indicted," said former Governor Edwin W. Edwards (who was). "That's a genuine achievement...
...half-century later, in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1876 the Democratic candidate, Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, won the popular vote. It appeared he had won the electoral vote too. But Southern states were still under military occupation, and electoral boards in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the electoral college majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates was General Lew Wallace...