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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 08:33 PM
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11. Thank you so much for posting this. What a wonderful person and one of
my personal heroes. I lived in Texas under her governorship and left just before she was defeated by kkkarl rove and his unethical electoral practices. The meme the Texas rethuglicans bandied about was that this was payback for what she said about bush the elder. We could never figure out how someone with a 60% overall popularity rating could be defeated. She never got to do anything near what she wanted to do in Texas, because she was hounded and hampered at every turn. It's too bad because her successor turned out to be one of the worst, do-nothing governors Texas ever saw, notable for his partisan incompetence and executing more people than any other governor.

Rest in peace, Anne Richards. You fought the good fight with poise and grace and a matchless wit.
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  -Ann Richards Ceremony Today (with pix) LibraLiz1973  Sep-16-06 07:01 PM   #0 
  - what a touching service that must have been  renate   Sep-16-06 07:08 PM   #1 
  - So sad to watch  malaise   Sep-16-06 07:08 PM   #2 
  - Tributes  LibraLiz1973   Sep-16-06 07:09 PM   #3 
  - <del>  LibraLiz1973   Sep-16-06 07:17 PM   #4 
  - Gov.Richards was an articulate. gutsy lady.  gademocrat7   Sep-16-06 07:20 PM   #5 
  - That is a beautiful article!  MelissaB   Sep-16-06 07:25 PM   #6 
  - Thank you so much  KT2000   Sep-16-06 08:13 PM   #7 
  - Thanks for posting this.  cat_girl25   Sep-16-06 08:22 PM   #8 
  - What could have been  blue cat   Sep-16-06 08:24 PM   #9 
  - That was probably his first stolen election (n/t)  LibraLiz1973   Sep-16-06 11:29 PM   #19 
  - K and R. Thank you.  Olney Blue   Sep-16-06 08:32 PM   #10 
  - Thank you so much for posting this. What a wonderful person and one of  Raster   Sep-16-06 08:33 PM   #11 
  - Does anyone have the video up ?nt  goclark   Sep-16-06 08:33 PM   #12 
  - Our local rag has it  sonias   Sep-16-06 09:12 PM   #13 
     - Thank you,thank you, thank you  goclark   Sep-16-06 10:09 PM   #15 
  - I watched the video, the tears came again.  texanwitch   Sep-16-06 10:08 PM   #14 
  - Wish I could go, too  OzarkDem   Sep-16-06 10:20 PM   #16 
     - I had a chance to have BBQ with Ann here in Houston about five years  texanwitch   Sep-16-06 10:29 PM   #17 
  - .  me b zola   Sep-16-06 10:36 PM   #18 
 

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