Windhorst also voted with economic conservatives in the Senate . In a special session in 1988 , he joined his colleagues in giving newly elected Governor Roemer the power to slash as much as 20 percent from department budgets , abolish or suspend certain programs , and to close institutions if necessary to keep the state financially solvent . Windhorst said that the powers transferred to Roemer were necessary : " It is either this or a much greater evil . If we do n't like what he does , we can undo it during the regular session . " Windhorst 's later Senate tenure corresponded with the administration of Mayor Sidney Barthelemy , the second African American to head the municipal government in New Orleans . Windhorst described the Democrat Barthelemy , originally elected with considerable white support , accordingly : " Sidney does n't whine or complain when things go badly ... He does n't threaten people who cross him . Just having him as mayor has sharply reduced the anti-New Orleans feelings in the legislature . " Windhorst was a delegate to the 1988 Republican National Convention which met in New Orleans to nominate the George Herbert Walker Bush and J. Danforth Quayle ticket
1988 Republican National Convention
1988 Republican National Convention
Fritz Windhorst