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Mitch Landrieu

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  1. “Somehow they did, and he ran, and he was only 29 years old. And as I said, he was married. He had four kids. He was just starting to call a law practice that was on top of what they called the kiddie store where they used to sell dresses for little kids.”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, well, he leveraged their power with people who were going to be state legislators and there. And they saw something.”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “He's a young white kid from the south. He didn't have two nickels to rub together. He wasn't a big shot. He got elected because he knew, quite frankly, who the assessor was in the neighborhood that he grew up in. And back then, with Ward politics, you're from Chicago. That's what it's like. But back in the day in New Orleans, you could tell him about Chicago, but it was all ward politics. And the ward bosses were the property tax assessors who had the ability at the time to raise a decrease. People's property tax assessments and consequently leverage that power.”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So, a couple of short years later, my father had come back home, started a law practice, and run for the legislature on a ticket who was then a very popular Mayor Chep Morrison, who ran for governor that year and lost to Jimmy Davis. And my father found himself in a legislative session when I was two months old, actually, fighting Jimmy Davis about segregation in public schools. And he was one of two legislators to vote against”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “How about that? And so my mother and my father, who went to Loyola together, my mother actually was thinking about becoming a nun and she was in the convent. She was studying. And my father had gone through law school on a jag corps scholarship. And my mother had other ideas and decided that she wanted to be a nun. They decided that she wouldn't. And they got married. And right after they got married, my father was deployed to the Pentagon. And my older sister, Mary, who subsequently became a United States Senator, was born on Gleave Road in the shadow of the Pentagon”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yes, but my mom, you know, they're very interesting because my mama dad both went to. Loyola in New Orleans. My father grew up on a street called Adam Street in a house that was about 14 feet wide and about 18 feet deep. He grew up in the storeroom. His mother was a store owner. His daddy had a third grade education and worked for the public service for the city. He was the only kid in his generation to go to college and one brother, and between he and his brother they were both married once, you know, and they had 19 children.”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Remember, yeah. Yeah, I was born in 1960. And in the year that I was born, you remember President Kennedy was elected. Yes. My mom and dad had been married then about five years. They had already had four children, and they subsequently went to have parenthetically we should say.”

    2020-06-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Best of The Axe Files: Mitch Landrieu · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source