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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-11 10:16 PM
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A good man died today. And, he was a Republican.
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He was Mark O. Hatfield.

He was the last Republican I ever voted for.

He opposed the war in Viet Nam.

Governor of Oregon, and later a US Senator.

Not to put too much of a point on it, but moderate Republicans are an endangered species.

Mark Hatfield was one of those.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/08/mark_o_hatfield_former_oregon.html
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