[LINK] Stealing the election

[Alan L Tyree]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:41:15 +1100
Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> At 10:42 AM 10/11/2006, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> >Alan (originally from Ohio, which at least did elect some democrats)
> 
> Fair enough, Alan. Was Huey Long a Democrat? I think the infamous 
> mayor of Chicago, Daley, was, as I think they were involved with the
> Unions.

Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana in or about 1930. Fictionalised by
Robert Penn Warren in "All the King's Men", played by Broderick
Crawford in the film (and I think maybe a recent one with Sean Penn).
Corruption on a breathtaking scale.

Democrat through and through! As was nearly every other Southern
politician of the time.

Alan
> 
> Jan (a Hoosier - home of the John Birch Society and the founding 
> state of the Ku Klux Klan, that elected Democrats in key 
> Congressional races, and registered to vote in Arizona - home of John 
> McCain and Barry Goldwater; I couldn't have been raised or worked in 
> more conservative states, but I still voted straight Democrat on the 
> ticket this year!)
> 
> 
> Jan Whitaker
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