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re: What's your opinion on Huey Long?
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:23 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:23 pm to prplhze2000
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Why don’t y’all look at the state before he took over.
Longs only goal was to enrich himself. He was a world class crook.
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Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:26 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Wanna be dictator.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:26 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
loved him as a raider but cant stand him on fox...oh wait
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:33 pm to jlovel7
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He did what it took to make LSU relevant.
This is probably his greatest lasting achievement, quite honestly. LSU was a tiny, largely neglected institution before he began pumping resources into it.
If he hadn't given a damn, it might've remained that way, with no Tiger Stadium or Tiger Band or SEC. We might not even have TD today.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:36 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
quote:Whoever he is, he sure likes Bridges
What's your opinion on Huey Long?
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:36 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
His bridge is pleasant to drive across every day
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:41 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
I like Huey Long and the News. Good music.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:42 pm to Bison
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He was a good kind of corrupt. He did some damn good things for this state
A lot of people in Venezuela used to say the same about Chavez. They don't anymore. Huey Long was very similar, and had presidential aspirations.
Thank you Dr. Weiss (or bodyguard if you are into conspiracies).
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:42 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
As a historical figure I find him truly fascinating. Dude didn't graduate from college, attended 1 or 2 semesters of law school, convinced the the State Bar Association to give him an oral test and passed it, stumped for Hattie Caraway (in her late husband's US Senate seat) and helped elect the first woman to the US Senate, gave the double bird to the NOLA political machine and beat it into submission, had the New State Capitol built in 14 months, was directly involved in the evolution of the LSU Tiger Marching Band and Tiger Stadium, possibly had at least one LSU football coach fired for not listening to him, built roads all across Louisiana, promised and delivered free textbooks to Louisiana schoolchildren, understood the power of the radio and newspaper quite possibly better than any other politician of the time, and yes called out FDR for not being socialist enough.
As a human being, no one should idolize him. Dude made a lot of enemies. He had a gift that so few people have in this world, and instead of using it for good he used it more for the anti-good (I won't say evil, just anti-good). He knew how to work a crowd, how to think big, and how to deliver when necessary. He was smart while appealing to the commonfolk, which requires talent. And he was greedy as all Hell. When I think of the prototypical politician, I first think of the Kingfish.
If there are thing I stated that are untrue, please feel free to point them out as it has been a while since I read up on the man.
As a human being, no one should idolize him. Dude made a lot of enemies. He had a gift that so few people have in this world, and instead of using it for good he used it more for the anti-good (I won't say evil, just anti-good). He knew how to work a crowd, how to think big, and how to deliver when necessary. He was smart while appealing to the commonfolk, which requires talent. And he was greedy as all Hell. When I think of the prototypical politician, I first think of the Kingfish.
If there are thing I stated that are untrue, please feel free to point them out as it has been a while since I read up on the man.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:43 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
People are more than one thing or the other.. Someone can be a "criminal" and still be a good person.. Or do good things.
He did things that were important to La's progress at the time, but he had his hands in the pot, which is common today.. So..
He did things that were important to La's progress at the time, but he had his hands in the pot, which is common today.. So..
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:50 pm to Jim Rockford
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Shady, but no shadier than the governors who came before him.
or after him.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:51 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Good: Built badly needed infrastructure, including the first Miss River bridges. Expanded LSU. Had the "mandatory dorm money" built into the shape of a football stadium with a field in the middle and seating around the interior. Charity hospital. Text books for public schools.
Bad: Pretty much everything else. Core reason why businesses are scared to invest in La as the corrupt political culture he built has yet to go away.
Bad: Pretty much everything else. Core reason why businesses are scared to invest in La as the corrupt political culture he built has yet to go away.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:54 pm to Brosef Stalin
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The state is not that conservative. Uncle Earl continued Huey's programs, Edwin Edwards served 4 terms, we have JBE now. Baton Rouge and New Orleans have long been democrat strongholds.
Somewhat true. BR was always his stronghold, but New Orleans hated him passionately. Politicians and most residents.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:57 pm to tigahbruh
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Had the "mandatory dorm money" built into the shape of a football stadium with a field in the middle and seating around the interior.
I think this is a myth. It was a compromise between all the powers that be and not some sneaky plan.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:57 pm to Peazey
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You can blame the widespread corruption in large part on him.
It was like that before he showed up. He just played the game the way that it was already established and was bolder than the people who came before him.
Not remotely true. La was not the land of honest politicians (nowhere is), but Long, whether you are for him or against him, no doubt created levels of government corruption unseen at any point in state history
Posted on 2/21/18 at 1:57 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Criminal, whose family is still reaping the fruits of his criminality.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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The wave that is going to cross this country in the next decade is going to erase the conservative base. The MAGA folks don't even see it coming.
It will be contrary to your position. Kids growing up now will be more conservative than millennial.
mAGA isn't conservative.
Based on predictable cycles of politics, economics, and society, the higher probability is toward at least a decade of conservative movement, possibly more, dependent on many factors. Of course, that will eventually be followed by a leftward turn and then back again. The US is, and has always been slightly right of center. There's no reason to believe that will change any time in the next several decades.
Per Huey Long, he came out of Louisiana's post-Civil War poverty stricken political environment that had yet to recover from 1865. It was then exacerbated by the nation's Depression.
It's a completely different world in 2018, podnuh.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:05 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Interesting historical figure but don't agree with a lot of his methods or policies. Bit that is in hindsight. If I was alive in those times and only had the same information that the rest of the people had, who knows? I may have been a Long supporter. I wonder if my great-grandfathers ever voted for him?
This post was edited on 2/21/18 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:06 pm to Parmen
It was the depression, people were desperate.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 2:11 pm to Bison
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He was a good kind of corrupt. He did some damn good things for this state
This.
People on this board will likely rip him apart, but Huey P. Long did more for this state than any governor before or after him has. Was he corrupt and did he constantly abuse his power? Absolutely, but it was always for the greater good. Highways, bridges, Tiger Stadium, free textbooks, and an increase in the state literacy rate are just a few of the things we can thank Huey P. Long for.
Long wanted to bring this state into the 20th century and make Louisiana a national power, comparable to the likes of New York or California.
Unfortunately, he was way ahead of his time and upset way too much of the established order/good ol boy network that was entrenched here. And a result, they killed him.
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