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Show Tuesday, May 8, 1990 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, - Page Bl in ttax hikes election raeed for face year Legislators - NEW ORLEANS (AP) U.S. Sen. Bennett Johnston's slide into a fourth term should have been well greased by his $2 million campaign war chest and plenty of pork barrel power after 18 years on Capitol Hill. Instead, the Democratic senator already is embroiled in what he calls a "rock 'em, sock 'em" race with iconoclastic Republican state Rep. David Duke, the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of White. People and a former Ku Klux Klansman. With voting still five months off, the charismatic Duke has all but blown away attention for state Sen. Ben Bagert of New Orleans, en dorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party to challenge Johnston. Louisiana's Oct. 6 open primary is a candidate free-for-without regard to party. If Johnston does not get a majority, he could be forced into a runoff in the Novem- ber general election. "David Duke attracts attention from everywhere. The kind of free coverage he gets is worth literally millions," Johnston said. "It will be a media circus for David Duke before this thing is over with, plus he's raising a good bit of money." Duke, a relentless campaigner, draws huge crowds as he crisscrosses the state and money pours in from all over the country. He all said he's raised $800,000 with the formal registration for candidates still three months away. "Duke should not be written off lightly. He is young, he is intelligent. He handles himself very well. He is not the type of person to be considered a buffoon because he is not," said former Gov. Edwin Edwards, a freewheeling Democratic populist who served three terms. Edwards suggested he would enter the Senate race himself if it looked like a Republican would defeat Johnston. Duke, 39, has cloaked himself in the drape of GOP conservatism. A recent statewide mailing touts working for welfare, no new taxes, leader presents major challenge to U.S. senator gun rights and the elimination of affirmative action. In Johnston's hometown of Shreveport, state Rep. Alphonse Jackson, a black Democrat, said Duke's support is "I've even heard some blacks say they're voting for Duke because he is for equal rights. I tell them what Duke says and what he means are entirely different. It sounds crazy, but he could get some black vote, Jackson said. "It doesn't surprise me. People are for me," Duke said. "A lot of blacks who pay taxes and work hard, they don t like the welfare system, the cycle of poverty. The welfare system has been the worst mind-bogglin- g. enemy of blacks and poor whites in this country." Duke as grand wizard unmasked the KKK, ushering the white supremacists from night rides to family picnics and public politics. He left the Klan in 1980, accused of trying to sell a membership list to a rival faction, and formed the NAAWP. Under the glare of international spotlights, he was elected to the Louisiana Legislature from a nearly district House in 1989 despite endorsements for his rival from Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Duke says his racism and Nazi sympathy were youthful errors. As a legislator, he claims to be a spokesman for equal rights for everyone. "I'm not looking for support from someone who wants to put down others, who wants to take away the rights of others," Duke said. That message goes a long way with his supporters. "What David Duke represents is not what people think. I'm not talking about Nazism or the KKK, I'm talking about what I call equality," said Ted Andrus, 67, of Mandeville, who contributed $1,000. "I like the principles which he elucidates no special treatment for anybody," said Robert Graham, 84, of Escondido, Calif., who contributed $700. Ex-Kla- n By The Associated Press Legislators trying to stretch revenue to cover the Northeast's economic slowdown and the Sun Belt's growth spurt are facing the dismaying prospect of raising taxes in an election year. The proposed increases range from the narrow w ill m extending Rhode Island's sales tax to Bibles to the broad-basesuch as levies on income in Massachusetts y and gasoline in California. "There's nobody going to stand up here and embrace a tax, but I think people realize the magnitude of the problem we're facing," said T.K. Wetherell,. chairman of the Florida House Appropriations Committee. "You're going to see some reluctant warriors." d, car-craz- Massachusetts lawmakers have wJ nJx balked at raising taxes even as the state has fallen $800 million to $900 million short of cash to pay bills. Texas deadlocked on school financing. Illinois got hung up on a phone tax. Florida and Massachusetts hit the brakes on gas tax increases. South Carolina faced a multiple choice and picked none of the above. New York's budget was due April 1 and still hasn't been adopted, in part because of wrangling over the need for $1 billion in tax and fee increases. New Jersey is weighing a proposal to raise the sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent. Proposals for new revenue also are pending in mm i : 4 Connecticut, Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Rhode Island Vermont. and A researcher who tracks state .budgets said many states this year are' putting off inevitable hard choices because they have enough reserves to get by or would rather wait until after gubernatorial elections in November. "What we're seeing this year is sort of a teaser for what we're going to see next year," said Mar-ci- a Howard, research director with the National Association of State Budget Officers in Washington. 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