Ex-KKK Leader to Chair GOP Panel

David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who made unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate and governor, has been elected chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in a Louisiana parish. The 19-member committee in St. Tammany Parish is responsible for setting Republican policy at the local level. “I consider the St. Tammany a renegade group,” said Jeff Crouere, executive director of the Louisiana Republican Party. Said Duke: “My agenda is in line with the people of this parish, the state and the Republicans of the nation.”