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Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy E. Roemer '64 heads the list of six fellows named by the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics (IOP) for the spring term...
...Buddy Roemer, who lost the governor's race in Louisiana, but who isn't David Duke, recently accepted his invitation to be a fellow at the Kennedy School. The Institute of Politics only offered a speaking engagement to Duke. The former white hooder will get a nice honorarium for his repugnant propaganda, but no steady paycheck...
...Duke's campaign was not farfetched. He won a place in the runoff by defeating incumbent Republican Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reformer whose imperious manner doomed him to a single term. Duke won blue-collar voters, largely rural, young and male. But he also made inroads into the middle class, capturing conservatives from both parties. If the election had been held just after the primary, Duke would have...
...days passed, the tide slowly began to turn. First, Roemer grudgingly endorsed Edwards and urged his sullen supporters not to sit out the election. Then, in a televised debate, Duke was confounded by an emotional question about bigotry. "I am scared, sir," began black TV reporter Norman Robinson. "I've heard you say that Jews deserve to be in the ash bin of history. I've heard you say that horses contributed more to the building of America than blacks did." Robinson went on to ask why any minorities should entrust their lives to Duke -- and the moral opposition...
...women hope to complete an additional six homes. They are forming a community-development corporation to rebuild the whole village, not just the housing, and have started to spread the do-it-yourself project to neighboring communities, like Sorrel. The work is not going unnoticed: Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer declared Oct. 24 Four Corners Community Day to celebrate the spirit of self-help...