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Former Louisiana governor running for Republican presidential nomination

4:44 PM 03/02/2011
Steven Nelson
Associate Editor

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer will announce this week his intention to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

The National Journal reported Wednesday that Roemer would make the announcement Thursday, citing an unnamed Republican source.

Roemer was a Democrat when he served in Congress from 1981 to 1988 and as governor of Louisiana from 1988 to 1992. He switched parties in 1991.

His most recent stint in elected office ended when he was defeated for re-election in the Republican primary for governor by Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

According to Louisiana CBS affiliate WAFB, “A news conference is scheduled to take place at Business First Bank in Baton Rouge at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Roemer is the president of the bank.”

It is unclear what political demographic Roemer would have as a base of support. As governor, he vetoed an anti-abortion bill, which may compromise potential support from social conservatives.

Tags: 2012, Buddy Roemer, Congress, Ku Klux Klan, Louisiana

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  • kingfish

    It’s amusing how all these useless politicians come out of the woodwork thinking that Americans will actually put them in office.
    Well…I guess they have a point…

    (1) we mindlessly put Obama, Clinton and the Bushes in office, and millions still Hillary the Witch is viable rather than reading about ChinaMissileTargetGate, VinceFosterGate, PaulaGate, WhitewaterGate, TravelGate, WhitehouseBedroomGate, ChildrensFundGate, WhitehouseFurnitureGate, GenniferFlowersGate, MonicaGate, AlGorefundraisingGate, and on and on.

    (2) We elected a homosexual foreign-born president with no birth certificate and a CIA-bought Columbia degree. We GAVE him the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing. The whole country was incredulous.

    Wayne Madsen Investigative Reports: SPECIAL REPORT. Obama and Emanuel: members of same gay bath house club in Chicago
    http://www.opinion-maker.org/2010/08/why-obama-is-subjected-to-blackmails/

    (3) The foreign-born president GAVE George H.W. Bush, the most-documented criminal on the face of the earth, the MEDAL OF FREEDOM yesterday. GOOGLE: “Bush +Clinton +CIA drugs”

    (4) The Bushes and Clintons planned 48 years or more of power – Bush Sr (8 yrs), Bill Clinton (8 yrs), W. Bush (8 yrs), Hillary (8 yrs), Jeb (8 yrs), Chelsea (8 yrs). Jeb keeps popping up for 2012. Chelsea’s marriage has gone kaput over her political senatorial ambitions.
    ARE WE “STUPID” ENOUGH TO ELECT ANY MORE OF THESE CRIMINALS?

  • borntoraisehogs

    How do these Louisiana and Illinois Governors keep getting out of prison?

  • philipjames

    I checked…. it is too early for April Fools… maybe he is a March Fool…. this is a joke, right? Or does he have so much money that he smoked a couple of joints, listened to some Led Zeppelin and then had a senility flash and decided to run for the Presidency.
    Bring in the clowns…. clap for the clowns… oh, now I got it… he’s from Louisiana.