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re: What's your opinion on Huey Long?
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:14 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:14 am to Geaux Piggins Geaux
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I just watched the PBS documentary about him and I'm curious of this boards opinion of the man.
Huey's a great excuse to have a couple/few whiskey cocktails at the Louisiana Hayride Whiskey Bar.
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Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:15 am to Sentrius
I think the impeachment is what really pushed him over. It was a case of if you guys want to play dirty, then ok.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:37 am to prplhze2000
Wonder what people will say EWE and Jindal in 90 years from their tenures as govs?
Posted on 2/24/18 at 9:37 am to Brosef Stalin
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Put this state on the path to being the shithole it is today
Corruption has been a problem since the French colonial era, and his actual initiatives (as opposed to rhetoric) were modest - free textbooks, school lunches, old age pensions.
In terms of machine politics he simply beat the Bourbons at their own game.
Posted on 2/24/18 at 10:57 am to I B Freeman
quote:you're on the assumption that those states achieved roads, bridges, and universities on par with ours. This isn't the case
Those that defend him fail to explain just how every other backward southern state of the time achieved the aforementioned paved roads, state universities, bridges and everything else WITHOUT a criminal as governor.
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