Angers was a Democrat until 1960 , when he joined the Republican Party . In 1964 , he supported Charlton Lyons for governor of Louisiana . In July 1964 , Angers was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco , where he supported U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater for U.S. President . He lashed out at the then all Democratic congressional delegation from Louisiana , calling the members " so-called southern conservatives who are really liberals ... that vote with Lyndon Johnson on nearly all major bills . " Angers himself ran as the GOP candidate for the Lafayette-based 3rd Congressional District seat against the 16-year incumbent , Democrat Edwin E. Willis of St. Martinville . Angers received 31,806 votes ( 37.7 percent ) to Willis 's 52,532 ( 62.3 percent ) and lost every parish in the district . In Lafayette Parish , Angers procured 49.6 percent of the vote and outpolled Goldwater there by 3.5 percentage points . Three other Republicans ran unsuccessfully for U.S. House seats from Louisiana that year : future Governor David C. Treen in the New Orleans suburbs , Floyd O. Crawford ( 1907 – 1995 ) of Baton Rouge , and William Stewart Walker of Winnfield , who opposed the conservative Democrat Speedy O. Long in the since defunct 8th congressional district . Angers was a Louisiana delegate to the 1968 Republican National Convention which nominated the Nixon-Agnew ticket . In 1974 , however , Angers left the GOP and re-registered as an Independent
1968 Republican National Convention
1968 Republican National Convention
Robert Angers