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re: Was Huey P Long or Edwin Edwards a bigger figure in Louisiana history?
Posted on 11/22/20 at 3:30 pm to JDGTiger
Posted on 11/22/20 at 3:30 pm to JDGTiger
"Not as out & out corrupt"? EWE has no morals to go along with being an out & out crook. Back then, he was one of the very few French speaking oil & gas attys. Representing his "poor " cajun constituents in signing oil & gas leases, he would insist on having one lease in French, which he would show to his cajun clients. The official lease in English , was filed in the court house as the legal document. The figures in the French, unofficial lease were different than the figures listed in the official lease. His clients thought his fee was a significantly lower amount. The official lease's figures were actually higher. He pocketed the difference as the royalty checks came to his office for disbursement. He was the atty for 1000's of clients over the decades. No one will ever know how much he made in this one scam.
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Posted on 11/22/20 at 3:38 pm to Keltic Tiger
Without Huey Long, we don’t have Bernie Sanders
Posted on 11/22/20 at 3:45 pm to Keltic Tiger
EWE was corrupt but never did anything as bad as Win or Lose, the deduct box and the newspaper publication (advertisers had little choice). Positions were bought and sold.
Posted on 11/22/20 at 3:56 pm to The Boat
I’d said Huey Long. The Long political machine created guys like Edwards.
Posted on 11/22/20 at 4:14 pm to The Boat
They both sold LA out. This coming from someone who initially thought they were amazing.
Posted on 11/22/20 at 4:20 pm to JDGTiger
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He published his own newspaper and forced the state patrol to circulate it all over the state. He paved roads until they reached the land of someone that didn't vote for him and then he would skip that stretch of road. He leased state land mineral rights forever in his Win or Lose Corporation and then leased them to oil companies---the successors of that corporation still enrich his heirs. He had the "deduct box" and forced state employees to contribute cash to it. He wanted to tax at 100% all income above $100,000.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy to think about the things they got away with back then and that we have a statue of this guy.
Is it true that the land that was developed for the new Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge was also somehow done as a favor to Long's descendants?
I may be mistaken, but I think Edwin Edwards is the one that officially got rid of the deduct box?
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