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...Michael Roemer, the executive director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) died while on a walk Friday morning...
...Roemer was 59 years...
...ROEMER (D) District 3 (Northern Tier--South Bend; Elkhart...
...Roemer is a centrist Democrat who does not toe the party line. As an economic conservative, he supports a balanced-budget amendment and is a hawk on legislative pork. But he shows his Democratic roots by backing federal education programs like the Pell Grant and Head Start. Already thrice victorious in the Third, Roemer seems to have found a moderate voice to suit his district...
Candidates find him odd but endearing--he tells them they can win, knows all about their state, cites chapter and verse on their careers. Roemer calls him "the weirdest guy I ever met in politics"--and Roemer is friends with another eccentric, Clinton's strategist, James Carville. "A wild man, yelling and screaming, all over your back. I said, 'Give that man a machete! I want him on my side.'" But sometimes candidates wonder whose interests come first with Morris. Roemer's campaign against the scandal-plagued Edwards was based on Roemer's pledge to reject all PAC money...