Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican, of all people, may become Louisiana's Governor
...office in the U.S., which explains why half a dozen major candidates have spent a record $20 million this year trying to occupy the grandiose state capitol that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge 48 years ago. What is surprising is that for the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican, Congressman David Treen, 51, is favored to win the runoff on Dec. 8. That is not what the archpopulist Huey Long had in mind...
...Louisiana has come a long way from the Depression poverty that Long fought-and exploited. If the state has the highest illiteracy rate in the nation, it ranks with Texas as a leading producer of gas and oil. A burgeoning middle class has produced conservative politics. Republicans are still vastly outnumbered by Democrats, 1.7 million to 81,000, but the G.O.P. is making rapid gains, and many of the state's Democrats are so conservative that they act, and vote, like Republicans. Three of the state's eight Congressmen are now Republicans, and a fourth Republican missed being...
...thought they had found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of 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...
...home base. Daley ducked controversy until Byrne's behavior aroused his combative instincts. He first challenged the mayor in September, when he fought to abolish a sales tax on food and drugs. The revenue was needed for a tax-and-transportation package that Byrne had worked out with Republican Governor James Thompson. Daley failed, but won the backing of labor and the minorities and shook up city hall...