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Article: Uncle Earl explains the indictments mess
- Article from:
- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Nov 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Last month "Speaking Out" commented on the indictment of state Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler. We noted that no other state has an elections commissioner and that in most places the job description falls under the secretary of state. "Speaking Out" traced the origin of that office to the last term of Gov. Earl Long, who in 1956 took away not only the elections responsibility but the insurance-regulatory tasks from the secretary of state, with whom he was feuding. We noted that both the elections commissioner and insurance commissioner offices were created, not out of good government, but as a political vendetta. Now that Insurance Commissioner Jim Brown has been indicted in an ...
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