Buddy Roemer, Louisiana's former Democrat-turned-Republican governor, dies at 77

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https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_4e8cd89e-3676-11eb-b2fc-eb5c23580375.html?8946789045

BY TYLER BRIDGES | STAFF WRITER MAY 17, 2021 - 8:54 AM

Buddy Roemer, who rode a message of reform in the 1987 governor’s race to vault over three challengers and “slay the dragon” — scandal-torn three-time Gov. Edwin Edwards — but who lost reelection four years later to the same rival, died Monday in Baton Rouge.

Roemer was 77. He had been ill for months.

Roemer was a Democrat-turned-Republican, but he seemed too independent and headstrong to fit well in either party. He never followed the precept that to get ahead in politics, you had to get along with other politicians. With his sharp mind, he understood all the angles of a political play but disliked the deal-making that came with being governor. And that limited what he could achieve.

"He was all about reform, but it didn’t always work in his favor because of the realities of politics at the state Capitol," said Bernie Pinsonat, a veteran political consultant.

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1. Most Republicans

in Louisiana are former Democrats including the two Senators Kennedy and Cassidy.

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2. Nutty Buddy. n/t

[George II]

3. He also helped finance, along with Russia Today, Cenk Uygur's "The Young Turks".