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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5853)	6/6/2000 6:17:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

Huey Long was a scamp, rascal and as dishonest a politician as you could find, but colorful so Louisianians loved him for it He must have been of Latin American origin... I saw a documentary about him and saw parts of his speeches, one cannot deny that he had charisma and style... unfortunately corrupt as well... and of the wrong ideology (in my eyes), a socialist really... on the other hand, excesses performed by the ruling classes many times provoke people like Uncle Huey to succeed, much like Uncle Fidel in Cuba. Once in power... it's like a drug that changes whatever original ideas drove them to rise in the first place. I found this to be amazing about his capacity and drive... In 1933, at the ripe old age of 39, Huey Long published his autobiography. This might seem, at the least, premature. But it turned out to be a provident move as Huey Long was dead two years later, felled by an assassin's bullet. Huey Long was a man in a hurry. He passed the Louisiana bar exam and became a lawyer after taking only two law school classes and spending a year reading every law book he could find. He became Governor of Louisiana in 1928. In four short years as Governor he paved roads, built bridges, provided free textbooks to poor children, reformed the hospitals, broke the power of the old political bosses, and took on the near-monopolistic power of the big oil companies. Within a year of taking office he was impeached by the Louisiana House, although the charges were dismissed by the State Senate. In 1930 Long was elected to the U.S. Senate. But since he was busy with his agenda as Governor, he never bothered to show up in Washington to take the oath of office until 1932. Huey Long was a man in a hurry. He was motivated for sure ! of course he was assassinated ...Yes, although he was shot by a Dr. Carl Weiss, it is said that in the response by his body guards killing Dr. Weiss, (they put 61 bullets in the doctor's body), that one of the bodyguards killed Huey Long, "accidentally" .... one wonders who really killed him... ...Roosevelt went to work in Louisiana on the rebel Kingfish. He poured money into the hands of Huey's enemies to disburse to Huey's loyal Cajuns. And there came a moment when Huey seemed to be on his way to the doghouse. But he was an incorrigible figure of unconquerable energy. When Roosevelt sought to buy with federal funds the Louisiana electorate and ring, Huey struck back with a series of breathtaking blows that brought the state under his thumb almost as completely as Hitler's Reich under the heel of the Fuehrer. First of all, he stopped federal funds from entering Louisiana. He forced the legislature to pass a law forbidding any state of local board or official from incurring any debt or receiving any federal funds without consent of a central state board. And this board Huey set up and dominated. He cut short an estimated flood of $30,000,000 in PWA projects. Then he provided, through state operations and borrowing, a succession of public works, roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, farm projects and relief measures. The money was spent to boost Huey instead of Roosevelt. The people were taught to thank and extol Huey rather than Roosevelt for all these goods. He gave the people tax exemptions, ended the poll tax, cut automobile taxes, put heavier taxes on utilities and corporations. He took over the police department of New Orleans from the City Ring, threw out their police commissioners. He was followed around by troops. He gathered into his hands through his personally owned governor absolute control over every state and parish office. He got control of education and the teachers. He took over the State University and added its football team and its hundredðpiece band to the noisy and glittering hippodrome in which he exploited himself. He possessed the entire apparatus of government in Louisiana ð the schools, the treasury, the public buildings and the men and women in the buildings. He owned most of the courts, and had a secret police of his own. He ran the elections, counted the votes and held in his hands the power of life and death over most of the enterprise in the state. popsvox.com Re: Politicians.... The typical lawmaker of today is a man devoid of principle--a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology, or cannibalism. H L Mencken.