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re: What is your opinion of the late Huey P. Long?
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:28 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:28 pm to Jim Rockford
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My point was he didn't exist in a vacuum, and you can't understand him without understanding the environment he sprang from.
Well, Hitler did some great things for Germany until he sought to expand his influence. Long squashed the local corrupt politician so he could align all corruption under one roof, and that was wherever he was at the time.
I did a report on Long in college. My main intent was to see what he did for Louisiana. You start digging below the surface, you see the dark side that suppressed Louisiana for decades.
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Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:29 pm to soccerfüt
Long was a tyrant in the mold of Chavez and Castro.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:31 pm to Jim Rockford
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:34 pm to TheIndulger
Try this. Close your eyes and listen to one of Huey's speeches on YouTube. Then Close your eyes and listen to one of Obamas early campaign speeches. Can you hear any difference at all?
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:36 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Really entrenched Louisiana politics in a world of corruption.
This.
The minor bit of good he did is far outweighed by his thievery.
#keepLouisianalast
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:38 pm to Kafka
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neither has miles
If I have to choose between a dictator and a football coach for "bringing in" the best talent for the state's football team, I'm going with the dictator. If the kid comes to LSU, his dad gets a $175,000 per-year job as head of the state's Dept. of Something-or-Other. And if the kid goes out-of-state, his family gets ... well, dead.
"Welcome to LSU kid!"
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:55 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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his tentacles reached all the way down to local councils.
Why do you think Louisiana has so many boards and commissions? Many were put into place during the Long Era to circumvent parish and local governments and were easier for Huey to control.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:56 pm to TheIndulger
Governor Long: Much needed for the state.
Senator Long the socialist? not so much.
Go look at his opposition, they were pretty bad and opposed any progress in Louisiana.
Not to mention Standard Oil had raped the state for quite some time.
Senator Long the socialist? not so much.
Go look at his opposition, they were pretty bad and opposed any progress in Louisiana.
Not to mention Standard Oil had raped the state for quite some time.
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 1/31/16 at 4:59 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Why do you think Louisiana has so many boards and commissions?
I agree, this is 100% bullshite.
The Causeway Commission, the Levee Board; worthless crap that sucks money from the State.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:02 pm to TheIrishFro
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with grammar like this, just proves that Politicians have always pandered to the lowest common denominator.
So you start a sentence without a capital letter yet you capitalized politician? WTF
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:03 pm to N2cars
He was a tyrant, a megalomaniac, a liar, a hypocrite, a thug, a peddler of influence, and the father of the middle class in Louisiana.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:04 pm to TheIndulger
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what he did for Louisiana?
Caused it to be illegal to detain a legislator en route to the state legislature when it is in session.
Long would figure out who was opposed to his bills and have police stop them and detain them on the side of the road until the Bill was voted on.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:13 pm to Upperdecker
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In school I was taught how great he was, that he was the greatest Louisiana politician ever essentially. Today I realize he was completely corrupt and had some pretty left-based political ideas
I'm 44 and was taught the same. just tells you how far back the left has been influencing kids through the education system.
eta: if had been killed sooner maybe we would have been spared EWE and cronies raping the state as well..
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:15 pm to TheIndulger
He gave the already crooked LA politic scene a bad name.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:16 pm to TheIndulger
His tactics were sub-optimal, but policy wise, he accomplished a lot of things that needed to be done: roads, bridges, education.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:16 pm to TheIndulger
His name was huey long. Honky long. Lol. Never met him or been around a Louisianan for a period of time. Sounds like fun.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:17 pm to Mars duMorgue
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But he never found a QB for LSU.
No! But he built Tiger Stadium!
The Legislature would not approve money for a stadium but they appropriated money for dorms.
Huey took that money and built a stadium with dorms in it.
How very clever....
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:22 pm to Jim Rockford
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Louisiana politics has been corrupt going back to the colonial era. There's a meme that the Longs hijacked an otherwise well governed state. Louisiana has always been fabulously dysfunctional.
And if you're going to criticize him, it's fair to at least acknowledge what he did for the state and the common citizens. His predecessors did almost literally nothing to develop and modernize Louisiana, and state government existed entirely for the benefit of the oligarchs. Again, he wouldn't have been able to gain and maintain his popularity if those who came before him hadn't been so abjectly bad.
The truth
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:23 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Why do you think Louisiana has so many boards and commissions? Many were put into place during the Long Era to circumvent parish and local governments and were easier for Huey to control.
Huey bragged that he would create a board and put an opponent on it so as to quite his critics.
But he always put two of his supporters on the Board so they always outvoted his one opponent.
Huey was very shrewd.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:39 pm to Overbrook
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he accomplished a lot of things that needed to be done: roads, bridges, education.
Programs
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Huey Long's Louisiana Programs
1928 - 1935*
9,700 miles of new roads
111 new toll-free bridges
Free textbooks
Free schools
Statewide school bussing
Adult literacy programs
LSU expansion
LSU medical school
Expanded Charity Hospitals
Reformed mental institutions
Reformed state prison
Abolished poll tax
New State Capitol building
New governor’s mansion
New Orleans sea wall
New Orleans airport
Reduced utility rates
Natural gas to all cities
Reduced property taxes
Debt Moratorium Act
Halted home foreclosures
Reduced bank failures
* Some of Long's programs were completed by his successor, Gov. O.K. Allen.
One has to wonder why no one did this before him.
And, he did this in seven years....
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