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...well, different. When a Federal official declared at a national Governors conference a few years ago that "it's not part of my job to lie to people," Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards cracked: "It's a very big part of mine." During his race against then Governor David Treen in 1983, he joked that his opponent seemed worried that Edwards, if elected, might loot the Governor's mansion. Quipped Edwards: "If we don't get Treen out of office soon, there won't be any money left to steal." Louisianians hooted and elected Edwards with 62% of the vote...
...Governor, an enormously popular Democrat, rode Evangeline. Edwards was Governor from 1972 until 1980, when he was blocked by the state's constitution from seeking a third successive term. He came back last fall, when he was eligible, and recaptured the office from the Republican incumbent, David Treen, who fell from grace with the electorate for committing the unpardonable sin-in Louisiana-of being dull. The Governor's raven-haired daughter Vickie explained the public's fondness for Edwards as the plane bibulously roared toward France. Said Vickie: "That man really gives a damn about his state...
...produce up to $100 million in investments over the next five years. Since the program is aimed specifically at high-tech businesses, the tax break excludes such industries as real estate, banking, oil and gas. Otherwise the state has put few restrictions on the money. Says Governor David Treen: "Other states have placed the decision making in the hands of government, which then tangles the programs in red tape." In Louisiana, it will be up to private investors to pick winners...
...Democratic state representative from New Orleans. "Laughingstock" may be charitable: the source of embarrassment was a retrograde Louisiana statute, passed only 13 years ago, that stipulated that a person is "nonwhite" if his racial makeup includes more than one thirty-second "Negro blood." Last week Republican Governor David Treen signed a bill, drafted by Frazier, that repeals the 1970 statute and requires the state from now on to accept parents' designation of a child's race. The change is not retroactive, how ever, so the air in Louisiana has not quite been cleared. But for the first time...
...package of tax-relief measures designed to lure investment to depressed rural and urban areas. Martco and the seven other companies approved so far are expected to generate some 1,200 jobs in exchange for $4 million in state tax breaks over the next five years. Says Governor David Treen: "We think the returns far outstrip what we give up in revenues." Indeed, while Congress has been sitting on President Reagan's federal enterprise zone proposal, made last March, a dozen* states are forging ahead with their own versions...