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re: Former Gov Edwin Edwards has died at 93
Posted on 7/12/21 at 3:57 pm to Keltic Tiger
Posted on 7/12/21 at 3:57 pm to Keltic Tiger
He was an equal opportunity thief. People would complain about him but few could match his intelligence and don't get into a substantive debate with him because he could chew you up. He was extremely intelligent and he knew how to work government. Yeah he was corrupt, he had the papers to prove it. But he was effective especially in the 1970s. Piedras Street in New Orleans was developed due to a lot of Edwards machinations. While New Orleans leaders and bankers dithered he got them off their asses. He got the Hyatt hotel built and a lot of the Poydras Plaza set up near the dome. He also shook down developers like his friend DeBartolo.
To your assertion that I really did not know the man, I can assure you that I probably had more interaction with him than 99% of this board. He did me a huge favor when I was in college and he was out of office in 1989 and it did not cost me a cent and I can assure you he did not profit from it.
To your assertion that I really did not know the man, I can assure you that I probably had more interaction with him than 99% of this board. He did me a huge favor when I was in college and he was out of office in 1989 and it did not cost me a cent and I can assure you he did not profit from it.
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Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:11 pm to lshuge
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All I remember about him is that he used state funds to campaign for President.
Then you only remember his 2nd term, which was horrible. First term was quite solid, state going in a positive direction. He was barnone an excellent emergency manager during both Hurricanes Gustav/Ike and the Oil Spill.
His 2nd term was shite, completely turned his back on Louisiana at a time when it needed leadership - budget issues and navigating a crap national economy. So while I will give him credit for T1, T2 completely undermines any faith I could ever have in him again.
Mike Foster isnt some kind of great La governor, but EE, Blanco, Jindal, and JBE make him look like a great governor. His scale back spending and get the government out the way approach was quite solid. Blanco came on and regrew the bejeezus out of state Gov't.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:20 pm to KiwiHead
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He was at home in both Pentecostal/Baptist revival tents as he was in a Catholic cathedral.
The Pentecostals loved him. No accident that his driver/bodyguard was a state trooper who was a Pentecostal preacher.
He outed himself as an agnostic in his famous Playboy interview. It was a rare political blunder and he had to do some fancy stepping to repair the damage.
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:30 pm to KiwiHead
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He was a great retail politician.He knew how to press the flesh and he at least outwardly looked as though he was having a good time doing it
All true, but as Maginnis noted in The Last Hayride, he was also an introvert who didn't confide in anybody and had few if any close friends.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:32 pm to lsuhunt555
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Former Gov Edwin Edwards has died at 93
I hope he repented before God, confessed his sins and accepted the glory of his maker so he could enjoy Heaven. Anyone that can do that does not deserve hell. I'll be praying for that to have already happened.
With that said, Edwin Edwards was and still is giant piece of shite on Earth and Louisiana lost nothing of value with his death. He was the 2nd most corrupt and destructive Governor in Louisiana history, behind Huey Long. So many problems Louisiana faces today can be traced to him. He did as much as Huey Long to institutionalize a culture of corruption, grift and self dealing and an anti business mindset that has this state 20-30 years behind the rest of the south.
Good riddance to Edwin Edwards.
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:38 pm to Sentrius
He was a nan of the people. But he was slimy as all get out. He spoke at the LSU graduation in 1977! Mine. He epitomized both the best and worst of the state in that period.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 4:40 pm to dukke v
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I would just rather die than be pumped full of drugs just to keep me breathing for a few days… what good does that do…
The drugs are not to keep you breathing, they are to help you avoid spending you last days in agonizing pain.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:00 pm to DiamondDog
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He put out misleading press releases until the end. Stayed true to himself.
Nice to know someone got the truth out of him before he departed.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:00 pm to lsuhunt555
Was he a OT baw?
This post was edited on 7/12/21 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:01 pm to JEAUXBLEAUX
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He was a nan of the people
No he wasn't, he just pretended to be so he could steal from them.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:12 pm to EA6B
Prayers sent.
I will tell this story and keep the rest. Around the time of last term he was building a new house, the government through the same federal judge that destroyed the Baton Rouge school system, gave the feds the right to put in dozens of permanent listening devices all into the house during the construction process, (You are an idiot if you think that’s ok), I think even in the bathrooms, they bugged his plane and cars too)
What did they did after years of wiretaps? Not a damn thing. Let that shite sink in.
EE took kickbacks for the casino projects and I think required that a Louisiana native be involved with all applications. 2 million per license plus I think or something like that etc. Years later his idiot son got caught picking up a cash payment from BR casino and so he got indicted too. Despite no real proof of his involvement, everyone knew he was involved or his son was using his name to shake down the casino. (I personally think it was probably the latter)
He went to the Feds, his blood enemy for decades, congratulated them on their victory and offered a plea deal where he claimed full responsibility and since he know he was prime target. He basically ask that he get more time and sentence so he son could get minimal time or go free.
Again they had nothing on him, he gave himself up and wanted to do whatever they needed to get his son free.
You jackasses blaming Louisiana’s problem on one man, even an exceptional one like EE, are the real problems. You obviously never studied Louisiana, it’s history or it’s politics. Typical Louisiana residents
I will tell this story and keep the rest. Around the time of last term he was building a new house, the government through the same federal judge that destroyed the Baton Rouge school system, gave the feds the right to put in dozens of permanent listening devices all into the house during the construction process, (You are an idiot if you think that’s ok), I think even in the bathrooms, they bugged his plane and cars too)
What did they did after years of wiretaps? Not a damn thing. Let that shite sink in.
EE took kickbacks for the casino projects and I think required that a Louisiana native be involved with all applications. 2 million per license plus I think or something like that etc. Years later his idiot son got caught picking up a cash payment from BR casino and so he got indicted too. Despite no real proof of his involvement, everyone knew he was involved or his son was using his name to shake down the casino. (I personally think it was probably the latter)
He went to the Feds, his blood enemy for decades, congratulated them on their victory and offered a plea deal where he claimed full responsibility and since he know he was prime target. He basically ask that he get more time and sentence so he son could get minimal time or go free.
Again they had nothing on him, he gave himself up and wanted to do whatever they needed to get his son free.
You jackasses blaming Louisiana’s problem on one man, even an exceptional one like EE, are the real problems. You obviously never studied Louisiana, it’s history or it’s politics. Typical Louisiana residents
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:15 pm to Hamma1122
I'd say ole Edwin went out in a way befitting his image:
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Throughout Sunday night family and friends, including House Speaker Clay Schexnayder who is a neighbor in the same subdivision south of Gonzales, stopped by. A nurse put the former governor on oxygen and administered morphine. His wife, Trina, stroked him.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 5:54 pm to lsuhunt555
Is this the thread where Louisianans hide their regret for voting for him bu lauding him as a great governor?
Posted on 7/12/21 at 6:11 pm to TutHillTiger
My father was a long time oil & gas lease broker, working with most of the major oil companies leasing oil rights in the State thru the 50's,60's and 70's. Edwards represented so many clients through out Acadiana & Eastern La. that he would organize a "lease signing date", processing his clients in & out of his office like an auto assembly line, all day. My father, his partner & numerous other lease brokers would sit at a large table, across from Edwards & his chain of clients. One stack of leases in English, the legal one, another in Cajun French, a copy for Edward's clients. The difference being what Edwards got in legal fees. From his clients. Not hard to connect the dots as to how Edwards was ripping off his clients. 15-20 clients a signing day were processed this way. My father would come home & head straight for a shower, "washing off the slime". All the long time lease brokers & geologists working in that area of the State hated him with a passion. My mother came to hate him as much, hearing a lot more of the dirt than I ever did as a teenager. I don't believe he was the gentleman crook saving his son as you proclaim here. I don't blame La.'s problems on him. But he did steal millions of dollars from the State, that is a historical given. Connect those dots.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 6:16 pm to TutHillTiger
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You jackasses blaming Louisiana’s problem on one man, even an exceptional one like EE, are the real problems.
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TutHillTiger
STFU you corrupt crook apologist.
Edwin Edwards is someone that's responsible for a lot of problems facing Louisiana today. He's a thief that's getting recognition that he deserves, it's just not what you would like.
Biggest example of that is the state constitution that he was intimately involved in crafting and now in 2021, it's a shite show of a mess that has made state government absolutely dysfunctional and is one of the most heavily amended constitutions in the country year in and year out.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 6:54 pm to lsuhunt555
EWE was also known for this famous quote:
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."
He was something else...
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."
He was something else...
Posted on 7/12/21 at 6:57 pm to lsuhunt555
My condolences to mrs ewe
Posted on 7/12/21 at 7:02 pm to CitizenK
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I never once voted for him. In 1992 I was in SoCal and opted not to vote absentee in the runoff.
Good for you, but the election wasn’t in 1992.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 7:10 pm to Sentrius
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someone who is responsible for a lot of the problems that Louisiana is facing today
Other than the homestead exemption, name one that could not have been solved by Republican and Democrat administrations and a legislature that has been majority Republican for some time.
Republicans have been bitching about how he screwed up things since 1979 when he left out after his first two terms.But since they have been in effective control have shown themselves to be even more inept ineffectual and stupid than could be imagined. Edwin Edwards understood this state and its people far better and intimately than any politician in my lifetime . And if you think other Southern, Midwestern or Norteastern governors were clean, get real.
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