Governor Fined in Duke Voter List Case

Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster was fined $20,000 by the state Board of Ethics in Baton Rouge, La., for failing to report more than $150,000 in payments to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for a computerized voter list. Foster, who is running for reelection this fall, said the violation of campaign finance law was unintentional. Foster was found to have twice violated the state’s campaign finance disclosure law. The first time was during the 1995 governor’s race, when he failed to report a $103,000 payment for a computerized “list of conservative voters,” the board said. The second was in 1997, when he paid $52,000 for the right to continue to use the list.