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Steve Scalise: “Bad policies running people out of Louisiana and you know…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 06:07

And yet when we were in college, we had the largest college Republican chapter in the nation because we were trying to galvanize people against what was happening in our state. Bad policies running people out of Louisiana and you know, the shadow of Huey Long that still runs around some today. But, you know, you had an image of corruption, which states like Illinois have now taken over, but we wanted to shed that. (06:07–06:17)

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Asserts that bad policies were causing people to leave Louisiana and that Huey Long's influence persists.

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