A U.S. Senate debate in Louisiana turns ugly, with David Duke at its center
Jenny Jarvie
November 3, 2016, 4:50 PM |Reporting from Atlanta
David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, became the focal point of an ugly election debate Wednesday night. He insisted that the political system is rigged, that Black Lives Matter activists are "destroying America," and that Hillary Clinton should be "getting the electric chair."
A crowd of more than 50 activists, many of them students, protested the former KKK leader's presence at the debate at Dillard University, a historically black college in New Orleans. Police used pepper spray to contain the crowd, who chanted "Let us in!" as protesters tried to force their way into the auditorium.
The debate between six U.S. Senate candidates had barely started when Caroline Fayard, a New Orleans lawyer and Democratic candidate, referred to Duke as a “bad man” and expressed dismay that he was on the panel.
“This snake has slithered out of the swamp, probably because the career politicians on this stage haven’t done their jobs effectively enough,” she said. “On Nov. 8, voters of Louisiana are going to join with me and cut the head off his hatred once and for all.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-louisana-senate-duke-20161103-story.html
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I do believe Caroline Fayard is my new hero.
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She is fearless, which is remarkable among politicians.
Telling it like it is takes real courage.
These are for you, Caroline Fayard: 
