re: Huey P. Long | Did you agree or disagree with his politics?

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He was a man of his time. He figured out how to break the Planter/NOLA Old Regular oligarchy that had a stranglehold on the state. His methods may have been questionable, but change was needed, and he provided that change. When he took office there was less than 100 miles of paved highway in the state. Think about that for a minute.

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I'm reminded of the scene in Life of Bryan, when a member of the PFJ (or PJF)ask "what have the Romans done for us?"

Huey Long paved roads, built schools in rural parts of the state, built bridges, got school books for poor kids, was the father of LSU, built hospitals that everyone could use, had rivers dredged etc etc.

Was he on the take? absolutely.

Just from an infrastructure point of view this state would look much different without HPL.