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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 don't like what he does, we can undo it during the regular session."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/27/us/louisiana-governor-given-broad-power-to-curb-the-budget.html |publisher=''The New York Times''|title=Louisiana Governor Given Broad Power To Curb the Budget|date=March 27, 1988|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref>
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 don't like what he does, we can undo it during the regular session."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/27/us/louisiana-governor-given-broad-power-to-curb-the-budget.html |publisher=''The New York Times''|title=Louisiana Governor Given Broad Power To Curb the Budget|date=March 27, 1988|accessdate=November 22, 2020}}</ref>
Throughout his life, Windhorst built geographical, political, and social bridges and advanced the economic and political power of the Westbank of Greater New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>
==Other political matters==
==Other political matters==