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It’s amazing what you can buy with TAXPAYER’S MONEY...As you can see the nut didn’t fall far from the tree.

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(Moon) Landrieu was able to obtain federal funds for the revitalization of New Orleans’s poor neighborhoods, and promoted involvement of minority-owned businesses in the city’s economic life. He was also involved in the planning and construction of the Louisiana Superdome and other projects designed to improve the economy of New Orleans.

In the late 1950s, Landrieu became involved in the youth wing of Mayor deLesseps Morrison’s Crescent City Democratic Organization.

There he was one of the few white legislators who voted against the “hate bills” of the segregationists which the legislature passed in the effort to thwart the desegregation of public facilities and public schools.

Running on a “progressive” platform, Landrieu won an unexpected victory by having assembled a coalition of 90 percent of black voters and 39 percent of whites.

his pro-civil rights stance was rewarded when he received an overwhelming 99 percent support from black voters.

During his tenure as mayor, Landrieu oversaw desegregation of city government and public facilities as well as business and professional organizations. Before Landrieu was elected, there were no high-ranking black employees or officials in City Hall; he worked actively to change this by appointing African Americans to top positions, including his Chief Administrative Officer. When he took office in 1970, African-Americans made up 19 percent of city employees; by 1978, this number had risen to 43 percent. He also appointed Rev. A.L. Davis, a prominent civil rights leader, to fill a temporary vacancy on City Council; Davis thus became the city’s first black city councilor.

After leaving office in 1978, Landrieu served as Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Jimmy Carter.