Bill Jefferson came from nothing, a childhood in the oppressive poverty of Lake Providence, Louisiana, the poorest county in America. He pulled himself up by his bootstraps and earned a Harvard law degree, won election to the state Senate and became Louisiana’s first black congressman since Reconstruction.
But apparently no amount of cash could wash away the bitter taste of poverty that he carried with him.
What a waste, indeed.
Go read the rest. Clancy's reflections are a welcome relief from the pompous glee-fest going on between Spud McConnell and Chick Foret on WWL during the past hour.
I've already said this elsewhere but someday someone is going to write a book about Jefferson's career and it's going to be the best book about New Orleans politics ever written. So, you know, it might not all be such a waste after all.
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