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Former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu, who was not a nominatively deterministic astronaut, has gone way down yonder aged 92. The pugnacious Landrieu was a rare white voice for civil rights in early 60s Louisiana, where he was the lone opposition against segregationist bills in the State House. The state’s powers that be penned his political obituary, and he was subject to racist death threats, but he forged through without sacrificing his principles to win a New Orleans city council seat and then the mayorship. As councilman he integrated the public, as mayor he integrated the city government, and after his term was up his coalition elected New Orleans’s first black mayor, Ernest Morial. Jimmy Carter tapped Landrieu as HUD secretary in 1979, largely to siphon the Catholic base from Ted Kennedy’s primary challenge. The Landrieu name has remained ever-present around the bayou, with son Mitch another New Orleans mayor and daughter Mary a former US Senator. It’s Mardi Gras for Democratic party theme team Dying Donkeys, who waxes their score with Moon.
Moon Landrieu
23 July 1930 – 5 September 2022, aged 92
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