But his effort backfired spectacularly when the Louisiana Republican was reminded that he, too, used to be a Democrat.
It was his very first question in DuBose’s nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he gave zero context.
“I am not nor have I ever been a Marxist,” replied DuBose, who is now a state district judge.
“I immersed myself in a ton of political theory,” she said, citing the works of philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and, yes, Karl Marx.
DuBose also said she didn’t know the interview had been published, which is why she didn’t turn it in to the committee.
He unsuccessfully ran for state attorney general in 1991, as a Democrat, and was elected state treasurer in 1999.
Still a Democrat, he was reelected to that position in 2003 and unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2004. »
