Mike Foster Quotes
We, like any other state – and probably more so because of the culture here – have problems with alcohol.
Mike Foster, Governor of Louisiana (Republican), Quoted in New York Times Magazine, March 22, 1998
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Despite the known link to crime, and the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans that do illicit drugs, Mr. Bennett and most of his successors did not target drinking in their various war on drug efforts despite the fact that alcohol is a much more dangerous and addicting drug than any of the illicit drugs. In the George W, Bush administration, health authorities in the government were ordered not to tell the public that alcohol was a drug despite the fact that all the Surgeon Generals and medical science has explained that it is not only a dangerous drug, but is a drug that induces violence more so than any other drug. The alcohol lobby did not want the public to associate the alcohol industry with the evils that drug dealers produce, so they used their political clout with the Bush administration for whom the industry provided large political contributions as well as conservative political consultants.
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Murphy James Foster Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as the 53rd governor of Louisiana from January 1996 until January 2004.
