From: pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M)
Subject: (quote) Duke pleads for money from followers (quote)
Keywords: We Handle Our Problems A Little Bit Differently
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:00:09 GMT

_ARICLE TAKEN FROM: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana
_DATE: Friday, Aug. 14, 1992
_PAGE: front-page, bottom

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		Duke pleads for money from followers

			By TYLER BRIDGES
			Staff writer

Nine months after he was crushed by Edwin Edwards in the gubenatorial election,
David Duke says he is broke, the target of an assassination plot and the
subject of audits by the IRS and federal, state and local campaign authorities.

So he has written some of his followers a four-page letter asking for money.

"This letter is not about a campaign," Duke wrote.  "It concerns my ability to
remain as an effective public spokesman for the principles we believe in.  It
may even affect whether I live or die."

Duke, a white-power advocate who ran for governor on an anti-affirmative action,
anti-welfare platform, has made little news since March when his challenge to
President Bush in the Republican primaries collapsed.  He did not win more than
10 percent of the vote in any state primary.

Close associates said he was deeply depressed after the presidental campaign,
and little seems to have gone well for him since then, according to the
fund-raising letter.

Noting that he is not a candidate for public office, his letter states "a
personal gift is not a campaign contribution, so any gift you make is completely
private, not public and not reportable to any agency or entity whatsoever.  You
can make a personal gift of up to $10,000 without it being reportable to the
IRS or paying any 'gift tax'."

Duke wrote that the money was not for him.

I ask this not as a reward for my service to you and our cause," he wrote, "but
so that I can continue the struggle that is so necessary to preserve our
heritage and rights."

He is deeply in debt, he said, because he devoted all his time during the past
two years to campaigning.

"As a result," Duke wrote, "my small business suffered.  I even had to borrow
against my only real asset: my home, to financially survive during that period."

Duke, who did not return a phone call, did not identify the small business.  He
has operated a mailing house specializing in neo-Nazi and racist books and has
owned a consulting service that kept the mailing list for his National
Association for that Advancement of White People.

Duke's term in the state House ended early this year.  With his campaign
manager, Howie Farell, he recently ventured into a new business, opening
MacGillycuddy's Irish Restaurant and Pub in Metarie.

Duke also complained of harassment by government agencies.

He said the IRS audited him for 1984-87, disallowing "practically every business
deduction" even though "the tax amounts were quite small."

He said that IRS then audited him for 1988-90 and has audited the NAAWP for the
past seven years.

He blamed the audits on Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.

"(They) said they had ways to deal with me," he wrote.

Duke also wrote that the Federal Election Commission has audited his 1990 U.S.
Senate campaign finances.  He said that state and Jefferson Parish government
entities have audited his gubernatorial campaign finances.

"The harassment is constant, and obviously, the financial harm is devastating,"
he wrote.

On top of that, Duke said, law enforcement officers had just visited him to
tell of an assassination plot against him.  He said he could not provide more
details "so as not to jeopardize the investigation."

Duke wrote that he needs to hire security guards to protect himself and his
teen-age daughters, neither of whom lives with him.

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