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Last week the White House finally got Moynihan's message: "We were running out of time," explained an Administration official. "It's time to make this thing happen." The new vehicle, called a "trigger," was proposed by Louisiana Senator John Breaux, a moderate Democrat who is developing a reputation as a breaker of logjams. Breaux wants to postpone the employer mandate for small companies until the end of 1997; in the meantime new subsidies and tax incentives would encourage small businesses to insure their workers. If small companies, defined as those with 25 employees or less, failed to insure...
Colorful populist Edwin Edwards, Louisiana's gambling-loving and scandal- hounded but never convicted Governor, unexpectedly and without explanation announced that he would not seek a fifth term...
...Louisiana's Governor says he won't run again...
Chicago politics may look just as slippery. Virginia politics is certainly more fractious. But for sheer, lip-smacking fun, there's still nothing that can beat Louisiana's. For nearly a quarter-century, Edwin W. Edwards has been much of the reason why. In four terms as Governor, Edwards, who was tried twice for fraud and racketeering but never convicted, who ran up huge gambling debts while Governor and who squired so many young women while still in his first marriage that he was dubbed "the Silver Zipper," has made Baton Rouge the undisputed capital of rascally political folklore...
That the fast-talking Governor did it without ever making a public act of contrition was one more reason that Louisiana was stunned last week when, midway through his present term, he made a tearful announcement before the state legislature that he would not seek re-election. For once, the Governor had just a few cryptic words of explanation: "I feel it's time to move on to something else. When you learn -- and you will -- what I have in mind, you'll understand...