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Debate '91: The Governor's Race (Edwards/Duke)
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A debate for the 1991 Gubernatorial Election between run-off candidates Edwin Edwards and David Duke moderated by Robert Collins. Each candidate received questions from political reporters Richard Baudouin of the Times and Acadiana Newspaper in Lafayette, Norman Robinson, a New Orleans reporter and White House correspondent for CBS news, Marsha Shuler of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate Newspaper, and Jeff Duhe of LPB's Louisiana The State We're In: Baudouin to Duke: Name your 4 or 5 key advisors and tell what their role or impact will have your administration; Robinson to Edwards: What will be the 3 most important bills, other than budget, in the legislative packet?; Shuler to Duke: What are the plans for the Minimum Foundation Program?; Duhe to Edwards: Name 5 industrialists or corporate executives with whom you\0xFFFDve had recent conversations about economic development in Louisiana; Follow-up by Duhe: What is the impression received about investing in Louisiana?; Baudouin to Duke: How many state positions would have to be eliminated for attrition plan to work? How would the state constitution be rewritten to restructure spending?; Robinson to Edwards: Would he support the law…
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Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Edwin Edwards, David Duke, Robert Collins, Richard Baudouin, Norman Robinson, Marsha Shuler, Jeff Duhe, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Louisiana politics, economic development, state government administration, Minimum Foundation Program, political debates
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