Buddy Roemer, who rode a message of reform in the 1987 governor’s race to vault over three challengers and “slay the dragon” — scandal-torn three-time Gov. Edwin Edwards — but who lost reelection four years later to the same rival, died Monday in Baton Rouge.
Roemer was 77. Ill for months, he died of complications from diabetes.
Roemer was a Democrat-turned-Republican, but he seemed too independent …