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As the director of LABI, Steimel often sparred with the Democrat [[Victor Bussie]], long-term president of the Louisiana [[AFL-CIO]]. The two clashed over [[right-to-work]]
As the director of LABI, Steimel often sparred with the Democrat [[Victor Bussie]], long-term president of the Louisiana [[AFL-CIO]]. The two clashed over [[right-to-work]]
legislation which Steimel had championed through the state legislature in the summer of 1976. In the afterglow of the victory by the right-to-work forces, the public relations executive Jim Leslie of [[Shreveport]] was assassinated in a motel parking lot in Baton Rouge, but Leslie's still unsolved murder is not believed to have been related to wrangling over right-to-work but instead a dispute with the Shreveport Public Works Commissioner George Wendell D'Artois.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forward-now.com/2012/07/05/lessons-from-the-murder-of-jim-leslie/|title=Lessons from the Murder of Jim Leslie|publisher=forward-now.com|date=July 5, 2012|author=Elliott Stonecipher|accessdate=July 26, 2014}}</ref>
legislation which Steimel had championed through the state legislature in the summer of 1976. In the afterglow of the victory by the right-to-work forces, the public relations executive Jim Leslie of [[Shreveport]] was assassinated in a motel parking lot in Baton Rouge, but Leslie's still unsolved murder is not believed to have been related to wrangling over right-to-work but instead a dispute with the Shreveport Public Works Commissioner George Wendell D'Artois.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forward-now.com/2012/07/05/lessons-from-the-murder-of-jim-leslie/|title=Lessons from the Murder of Jim Leslie|publisher=forward-now.com|date=July 5, 2012|author=[[Elliott Stonecipher]]|accessdate=July 26, 2014}}</ref>
In 1976, Steimel supported [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], in the campaign against the Democrat [[Jimmy Carter]], whom Steimel claimed favored the repeal of Section 14B of the [[Taft-Hartley Act]], which permits states to adopt right-to-work laws. More than twenty states have adopted such legislation.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 17, 1976, p. 1.</ref>
In 1976, Steimel supported [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford]], in the campaign against the Democrat [[Jimmy Carter]], whom Steimel claimed favored the repeal of Section 14B of the [[Taft-Hartley Act]], which permits states to adopt right-to-work laws. More than twenty states have adopted such legislation.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' September 17, 1976, p. 1.</ref>