re: Edwin Edwards Dead

I knew him for what he was. When I came to Louisiana, I could not believe a charlatan like him could get elected, much less keep getting re-elected. So, anyway. The feds came up with a program to give the states a couple hundred million dollars each to update the state voting machines. Louisiana stipulated that in exchange for the federal multimillion dollar grant, it had to remove, destroy and scrap all the old voting machines. Edwin diverted millions of $$$$ of the funds to himself and family, and contrary to the provisions to destroy the old machines, sold them to Mexico for cash (that he also pocketed). Would have gotten away with it too, except in 1998, Edwin Edwards was elected President of Mexico.