Louisiana Governors from 1970 to Present: A Political Timeline, Quizzes of Political Science

Download Louisiana Governors from 1970 to Present: A Political Timeline and more Quizzes Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Governors From 1970 - Now DEFINITION 1 Edwards (2 terms)TreenEdwardsRoemerEdwardsFoster (2 terms)BlancoJendal (2 terms) TERM 2 Edwards I & II DEFINITION 2 1971 & 1975Biracial Coalition finallyAppointed first woman head os administration1st election : Barely won2nd election : pushed new election law to be passedMade Louisiana Look good TERM 3 How did Edwards make Louisiana look good? DEFINITION 3 He wasn't racistNew voter participationCharismatic TERM 4 Treen DEFINITION 4 1979First republican governor electedHis term sucked He cut taxes, then the price of oil whet down dramatically Louisiana's revenue was lost and he had to cut into other organizations money He lost dramatically when he tried to run for a second term TERM 5 Edwards III DEFINITION 5 1983Shortly after elected he was indicted for accepting bribes from people while he was outside of the office...the trial was while he was in officeOfficially labeled a crook people didn't like him the economy still sucked TERM 6 Roemer DEFINITION 6 1987Run-off who beat Edwards came out of no where Middle of the race Edwards "decided not to run" because he didn't want to get beatweak governor because he was just 'given' governorship TERM 7 "Race from Hell DEFINITION 7 Edwards vs. Roemer vs. DukeIdiot vs. Crook vs. KKK wizardEdwards was being supported by people all around the country to prevent Duke from winning because they feared he would start a revolution.Edwards won. TERM 8 Edwards IV DEFINITION 8 1990 raceHe was never able to convince people that he wasn't a crook and the economy never got better.RUMORS - TV Preacher and part owner of The San Francisco 49ers TERM 9 Foster I & II DEFINITION 9 1995 & 2004Kept Landrieu out of officeEconomy started to turn aroundEnded up working with African Americans TERM 10 Blanco DEFINITION 10 2003First Female electedDemocrat populistCared about her health care and said that Foster screwed her overSucked at being a leader during Katrina