 Weiss became a political booster of Huey Long, whom he met during the 1928 gubernatorial campaign.Weiss acted as Long's chief of protocol and resolved an unwitting comical dispute that developed when the governor received a German delegation at Mardi Gras in 1930 in a pair of pajamas, a red and blue robe, and blue bedroom slippers.Long made Weiss's Roosevelt Hotel his New Orleans headquarters.